Hsiao-ting Lin (Chinese: 林孝庭; born 1971)^[1] is a Taiwanese research fellow at the Hoover Institution who studies Greater China, including ethnopolitics, the Kuomintang, and Taiwan–United States relations during the Cold War.^[2][3][4][5]

Lin was born in Taipei in 1971. He received a bachelor's degree in political science from National Taiwan University in 1994 and a master's degree in international law and diplomacy from National Chengchi University in 1997. He holds a DPhil in oriental studies from the University of Oxford, which he received in 2003.^[2][3][4][5]

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 a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.^[2][3][5]

Books

• 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 978-0-415-85540-2 OCLC 925300205
• Lin, Hsiao-ting. Accidental State: Chiang Kai-Shek, the United States, and the Making of Taiwan. Harvard University Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0-674-65981-0 OCLC 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 Huang ISBN 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.