Dr. Mao Lin

Associate Professor of History (2014).

B.A. M.A., Peking University, 1999, 2002; M.A., Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2004, 2010.

Teaching and Research Interests:

American Foreign Relations; American Presidency; U.S.-China Relations; Modern China; World History

Upper Division Courses:

• HIST 3135 US Foreign Relations I
• HIST 3136 US Foreign Relations II
• HIST 4133 The Cold War

Contact:

Department of History
Georgia Southern University
P. O. Box 8054
Statesboro, GA 30460-8054

Office: #3098, Interdisciplinary Academic Building

Tel: 912-478-0243

Email: mlin@georgiasouthern.edu

Selected Publications:

• “Between Tradition and Modernity: Wuzhen and China’s Soft Power in the 21st Century.” Journal of Literature and Art Studies, Vol. 7, No. 11, (November 2017).
• “Traders as Diplomats: Trade and Sino-American Rapprochement, 1971-78,” International Journal of Social Science Studies, Vol. 5, No. 10, (October 2017).
• “More than a Tacit Alliance: Trade, Soft Power, and U.S.-Chinese Rapprochement Reconsidered,” Journal of American-East Asian Relations, Vol. 24, No.1, (April 2017).
• “‘To See is to Believe?’—Modernization and U.S.-China Exchanges in the 1970s,” Chinese Historical Review, 23:1 (May 2016).
  “Doing Business with China: Trade and Sino-American Relations, 1966-1974,” American Review of China Studies, Vol. 13: 2 (Fall, 2012).
• “China and the Escalation of the Vietnam War: The First Years of the Johnson Administration,” Journal of Cold War Studies, 11:2 (Spring 2009).

Professional Activities, Awards, and Honors:

• Director of Study Abroad in China

Current Research:

• Book Project: U.S.-China Relations and the Diplomacy of Modernization, 1966-1979.

Last updated: 12/14/2023