Diana Chen Lin
East Asian Studies Gateway Coordinator
About
Xiaoqing Diana Chen Lin is a professor of history at Indiana University Northwest and has been teaching Asian and World histories here since 1994. She has also been the Coordinator of IU Northwest East Asian Studies Gateway since 2021. She was a recipient of the Indiana University New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities Award (2011) and IU Northwest Trustees’ Teaching Award (2013).
Diana Chen Lin’s research on modern China examines how cultural and political transformations shape intellectual changes. She is the author of Peking University, Chinese Scholarship and Intellectuals (SUNY Press, 2005) and Feng Youlan and Twentieth Century China: An Intellectual Biography (Brill, 2016). Recent projects include studies on markets and the populist articulation of Chinese nationalism in the 1990s and 2000s; the effect of COVID-19 on the Belt and Road Initiative as an ideological and global phenomenon; the divide between science and metaphysics in modern Chinese thought; and the relationship between communism, modernization, and Chinese literary studies during the Cold War. Her publications can be found on her Google Scholar profile.
Education
B.A. in English
Beijing Foreign Studies University
M.A. in History
University of Chicago
Ph.D. in History
University of Chicago