Lina Nie

Lina Nie is a historian of premodern China, Japan, the Mongol Empire, and maritime East Asia. She teaches courses in world history, the history of nomads, the cultural and social history of premodern China and Japan, as well as the history of diplomatic and overseas interactions in East Asia. Her research interests also include comparative perspectives on different empires, international relations, and oceans in premodern East Asia’s diplomatic and political history. She is currently writing a book on diplomatic exchanges among China, Japan, Korea, and Mongols from the eleventh to fifteenth centuries. By closely reading and cross-referencing sources from China, Japan, Mongols, and Korea, this book underscores how different players portrayed one narrative differently, thus highlighting the need to go beyond national boundaries to study historical events and rethink important terms such as nation-states, ethnicity, international order from a multilingual and transregional perspective.

Lina Nie received her PhD in History from the University of Southern California. She went to the University of Hong Kong and Kyoto University for her undergraduate study . Her research has been supported by fellowships such as the Yenching Institute Fellowship at Harvard University, Middle Period Conference Grants at Yale University, and PhD Dissertation Fellowship at USC-Huntington Early Modern Institute. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Song-Yuan Studies, Bulletin of Ming-Qing Studies, and Monumenta Nipponica