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Man-houng Lin
Man-houng Lin was born in Taiwan in 1951. She was mostly educated in Taiwan and received her Ph.D. in History and East Asian Languages from Harvard University in 1989. Lin has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica since 1990 and Professor at the Department of History, National Taiwan Normal University since 1991. From May 20, 2008, she serves as the president of the Republic of China (Taiwan)'s Academia Historica (State History Academy). Lin’s main area of research focuses on treaty ports and Modern China, native opium of late Qing China, currency crisis and early nineteenth-century China, various empires and Taiwanese merchants' Great East Asian overseas economic networks, 1860-1961. She has published 5 books and about 70 papers in Chinese, English, Japanese and Korean in these areas, which are listed at. Her book, China Upside Down: Currency, Society and Ideologies, 1808-1856 (Harvard East Asian Series, 2006) links China’s topsy-turvy change from the center of the East Asian order to its modern tragedy with the Latin American Independence Movement.