Participant Info
- First Name
- Qingfei
- Last Name
- Yin
- Country
- United Kingdom
- State
- Q.Yin@lse.ac.uk
- Affiliation
- London School of Economics and Political Science
- Website URL
- https://www.lse.ac.uk/International-History/People/academicStaff/yin/yin
- Keywords
- Cold War, borderlands, China, Vietnam, Indochina Wars, State Building, Ocean Shipping
- Availability
- 1
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Dr Qingfei Yin is Assistant Professor of International History (China and the World) at the London School of Economics and Political Science. As a historian of contemporary China and inter-Asian relations, her research focuses on China’s relations with its Asian neighbours, Asian borderlands, and the Cold War in Asia. She is particularly interested in how the global Cold War interacted with state-building in marginal societies. Her first monograph State Building in Cold War Asia: Comrades and Competitors on the Sino-Vietnamese Border will be published in Cambridge University Press in September 2024. Subsequent projects are on the history of China’s ocean shipping during Mao’s era and the historical memory of the Sino-Vietnamese Cold War partnership in the two countries. Her research has been funded by the Association for Asian Studies China and Inner Asia Council and Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies.
She studied International Politics and History at Peking University for her undergraduate degrees, graduated from the LSE-Peking University Double MSc in International Affairs Programme, and completed her PhD in History at George Washington University. Before returning to LSE, she was Assistant Professor of History at Virginia Military Institute. She also serves as the Book Review Editor of Journal of Military History and on the Editorial Board of Cold War History.
- Recent Publications
- Yin, Qingfei Yin. State Building in Cold War Asia: Comrades and Competitors on the Sino-Vietnamese Border (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
- Yin, Qingfei and Kosal Path. “Remembering and Forgetting the Last War: Discursive Memory of the Sino-Vietnamese War in China and Vietnam.” TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia 9:1 (2021), 11-29.
- Yin, Qingfei. “From a Line on Paper to a Line in Physical Reality: Joint State-Building at the Chinese-Vietnamese Border, 1954-1957.” Modern Asian Studies 54:6 (2020), 1905-48.
- Yin, Qingfei. “The Mountain is High, and the Emperor is Far Away: States and Smuggling Networks at the Sino-Vietnamese Border.” Asian Perspective 42:4 (2018), 551-73.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- China, Vietnam
- Expertise by Geography
- Asia, China, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Vietnam
- Expertise by Chronology
- 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Diplomacy, Labor, Military, Politics, Rebellion & Revolution
