Hsiao-ting Lin (Chinese:林孝庭; born 1971)^[1] is a Taiwanesesinologist at theHoover Institution who studiesGreater China, includingethnopolitics, theKuomintang, andTaiwan–United States relations during theCold War.^[2][3][4][5]

Lin was born in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1971. After high school, he graduated fromNational Taiwan University with aB.A. inpolitical science in 1994 and earned anM.A. ininternational law and diplomacy fromNational Chengchi University in 1997. He then completed doctoral studies in England at theUniversity of Oxford, where he earned aDoctor of Philosophy (D.Phil.) inoriental studies in 2003 fromSt Cross College, Oxford.^[4][2] His doctoral dissertation was titled, "A reexamination of nationalist China's frontier agenda: A case study of Tibet, 1928-1949".^[6]

The 2017 Kingstone Award for Most Influential Book of the Year in Taiwan was awarded for his book "Accidental State: Chiang Kai-shek, the United States, and the Making of Taiwan" (Harvard University Press, 2016).^[5]

In April 2008, Lin was elected aFellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.^[2][3][5]

• Lin, Hsiao-ting.Tibet and Nationalist China's Frontier Intrigues and Ethnopolitics, 1928-49. .Vancouver UBC Press, 2014.ISBN 978-0-7748-5528-0
• Lin, Hsiao-ting.Modern China's Ethnic Frontiers: A Journey to the West. Routledge, 2013.ISBN 978-0-415-85540-2OCLC 925300205
• Lin, Hsiao-ting.Accidental State: Chiang Kai-Shek, the United States, and the Making of Taiwan. Harvard University Press, 2016.ISBN 978-0-674-65981-0OCLC 916684758
  • Also published in Chinese: 意外的國度 : 蔣介石, 美國, 與近代台灣的形塑 = Accidental state : Chiang Kai-shek, the United States, and the making of Taiwan /
• Yi wai de guo du : Jiang Jieshi, Meiguo, yu jin dai Taiwan de xing su. by 林孝庭, transl. Zhongxian HuangISBN 978-986-94425-3-4
• Lin, Hsiao-ting.Tai hai leng zhan jie mi dang an = The cold war between Taiwan and China : the declassified documents. 2015.

• 1971 births
• Living people
• Historians of Taiwan
• 21st-century Taiwanese historians
• Taiwanese political scientists
• National Taiwan University alumni
• National Chengchi University alumni
• Hoover Institution people
• Taiwanese expatriates in the United States
• Taiwanese expatriates in the United Kingdom
• Alumni of the University of Oxford
• 21st-century male writers
• Writers from Taipei
• Taiwanese male writers
• Fellows of the Royal Asiatic Society

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