Hsiao-ting Lin (; born 1971) is a Taiwanese sinologist at the Hoover Institution who studies Greater China, including ethnopolitics, the Kuomintang, and TaiwanâÂÂUnited States relations during the Cold War.
Lin was born in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1971. After high school, he graduated from National Taiwan University with a B.A. in political science in 1994 and earned an M.A. in international law and diplomacy from National Chengchi University in 1997. He then completed doctoral studies in England at the University of Oxford, where he earned a Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil.) in oriental studies in 2003 from St Cross College, Oxford. His doctoral dissertation was titled, "A reexamination of nationalist China's frontier agenda: A case study of Tibet, 1928-1949".
The 2017 Kingstone Award for Most Influential Book of the Year in Taiwan was awarded for his book "Accidental State: Chiang Kai-shek, the United States, and the Making of Taiwan" (Harvard University Press, 2016).
In April 2008, Lin was elected a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.