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Wu, Lingjun

WU Lin-chun is currently a professor of history at Taiwan Normal University. Herprimary interest is Sino–American relations from the nineteenth century to the Cold Warera, especially multinational corporations, technology transfer, and the network ofrelations in Sino–American interactions, both political and economic. She has been avisiting scholar in Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University and a FulbrightScholar at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University. Her published booksinclude America's Unfinished China Dream: Business, Technology and Networks (Lian Jing,2020); American Big Business and China's Internationalization (Lian Jing, 2012); StandardOil Company in China, 1870-1933 (Dao Xiang, 2001, revised simplified version, 2017);Theory and Practice of Teaching History (Wu Nan, 2003) and America and Chinese Politics:A Study Centered on the North-South Division, 1917-1928 (Dong Da, 1996). Her newlypublish paper “China and United States: Business, Technology and Networks, 1914-1941”,appeared in Journal of American-East Asian Relations, 27(2020); another article “PromotingStandardisation in Modern China: British and American Engineer Organisations, LocalChinese Engineers, and Their Transnational Networks, 1901–1941”, Bulletin of HistoricalResearch, National Taiwan Normal University, Dec. 2021.