Qingfei Yin George Washington University 801 22nd St NW, Suite 335, Washington, DC 20052 202-460-7585 [email protected]

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Expected May 2018 George Washington University, Washington, DC Dissertation: “Confronting the Communist State: The Chinese-Vietnamese Land-Maritime Border during the Cold War, 1949-1979” Committee: Gregg Brazinsky, Edward McCord, Shawn McHale Areas of Concentration: Modern China, Modern Vietnam, 20th Century International History

Double MSc in International Affairs November 2012 London School of and Political Science, London, UK Thesis: The Anglo-American Response to the First Chinese Nuclear Test, 1964-1965 Peking University, Beijing, China Thesis: China and the Neutralization of Laos and Cambodia at the Geneva Conference of 1954

BA in International Politics and History July 2010 Peking University, Beijing, China

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Teaching Assistant Department of History, George Washington University U.S. Diplomatic History Fall 2016, Spring 2015 , 1500-Present Spring 2016, Fall 2014, Spring 2013 Peking University-London School of Economics Summer School The International Relations of East Asia Summer 2011

Guest Lecturer Department of History, George Washington University The United States and the Wars in Indochina Spring 2017 World War II Fall 2017

PUBLICATIONS

Qingfei Yin. “From a Line on Paper to a Line of Physical Reality: Joint State-Building at the Chinese-Vietnamese Border, 1954-1957.” Under review with Modern Asian Studies.

Qingfei Yin. “Zhongguo duiwai rendao zhuyi yuanzhu yanjiu, 1949-1965 [The analysis of Chinese foreign humanitarian assistance, 1949-1965].” Dangdai Zhongguoshi yanjiu

[Contemporary Chinese history studies] 18:4 (2011), pp. 92-99.

CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES

“Remembering and Forgetting the Last War: The Discursive Memory of the Sino-Vietnamese War in China.” Panel submitted to the Association for Asian Studies 2018 Annual Conference.

“Cold War, Socialist Revolution, and the Ethnic Minorities at the Sino-Vietnamese Border.” Paper to be presented at the American Historical Association 2018 Annual Conference, Washington, DC, January 2018.

“Confronting the Communist State: The Chinse-Vietnamese Land-Maritime Border during the Cold War, 1949-1979.” Paper to be presented at the Berkeley International and Global History Conference, University of California, Berkeley, CA, September 2017.

“Cold War, State Invasion, and the Transformation of the Chinese-Vietnamese Land-Maritime Border Area, 1955-1965.” Paper presented at the Association for Asian Studies 2016 Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, April 2016.

“Bringing the Cold War to the Frontier: The Impact of the Emerging Sino-Vietnamese Alliance on China’s Southwest Border Area, 1950-1965.” Paper presented at a conference on New Sources and New Perspectives on China’s Frontiers during the Cold War, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, August 2014.

“World Affairs (Shijie Zhishi) and Discourse Formation on China’s Commitments to the Third World, 1950-1965.” Paper presented at the 12th Annual International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, April 2014.

GRANTS/HONORS

Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2017 George Washington University

Doctoral Teaching Fellowship, George Washington University 2014-2016, 2012

Pre-dissertation Summer Travel Grant, 2015 Henry Luce Foundation/ ACLS Program in China Studies

China and Inner Asia Council Small Grant, Association for Asian Studies 2015

Sigur Center for Asian Studies Summer Field Research Grant, 2014 George Washington University

Sigur Center for Asian Studies Selective Excellence Graduate Research Assistantship, 2013 George Washington University

Southeast Asian Studies Institute Tuition Scholarship, 2013 University of Wisconsin-Madison

Graduate Support Scheme Award, London School of Economics and Political Science 2011

National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China 2007-2010

INVITED TALKS

“Researching at Communist Archives: China and Vietnam.” Summer Institute on Conducting Archival Research, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, June 2017.

“Ambiguous Occupation: Chinese Nationalist Army of Occupation in Northern Indochina after the End of World War II, 1945-46.” Lecture series on New Perspectives on the End of World War II in the Asia Pacific, Sigur Center for Asian Studies, Washington, DC, April 2015.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Historical Association Association for Asian Studies The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Mandarin Chinese – Native Vietnamese – Reading Competency French – Reading Competency

REFERENCES

Gregg Brazinsky, Associate Professor of History and International Affairs George Washington University 1957 E St NW, Suite 503 Washington, DC 20052 202-994-0987 [email protected]

Edward McCord, Professor of History and International Affairs, Vice Dean of Elliott School of International Affairs George Washington University 1957 E St NW, Suite 401 Washington, DC 20052 202-994-5785 [email protected]

Shawn McHale, Associate Professor of History and International Affairs George Washington University

Phillips Hall, 801 22nd St NW, 305 Washington, DC 20052 202-994-2760 [email protected]