Biography
Lina Nie teaches courses on the Mongol empire, China and Japan. She is currently completing a book on diplomatic exchanges of Eurasia from the eleventh to fifteenth centuries.
She received her PhD in History from the University of Southern California, after undergraduate study at the University of Hong Kong and Kyoto University and an MA from Harvard University. Her research has been supported by fellowships such as the Harvard Yenching Institute Fellowship, Yale’s Middle Period Conference Grants, and the USC–Huntington Early Modern Institute Dissertation Fellowship. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Song-Yuan Studies, Bulletin of Ming-Qing Studies, and Monumenta Nipponica.
Research Interests
Areas of Specialty
- Transregional History
- Connected History
- Premodern East Asia
- Imperial Order and Diplomacy
Educational Background
- Bachelor of Arts, The University of Hong Kong, major in Japanese Studies and Chinese History (first honor)
- MA: Regional Studies East Asia (Harvard Yenching Fellowship)
- PhD: History, University of Southern California