Guolin Yi

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Personal profile

Biography

Before joining PC, Yi was a tenure-track assistant professor and graduate program director at Arkansans Tech University. He had also taught full-time at Fairleigh Dickinson University and Stockton University, both in New Jersey. Yi’s research interests cut across the fields of history and communication with a focus on the cultural history of modern China, especially the media in the larger context of its interactions with the West. He has published a book The Media and Sino-American Rapprochement: 1963-1972: A Comparative Study (Louisiana State University Press, 2020), which won the 2022 Association of Chinese Professors of Social Sciences in the United States (ACPSS) Research Award. He has also published in Journal of American-East Asian RelationsAmerican JournalismChinese Historical ReviewWorld History Bulletin, and H-Net among others.  Currently he is the Assistant Editor of World History Bulletin and a Research Associate at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University.

Education

History, Ph.D., Reading The Tea Leaves: The Media And Sino-American Rapprochement, 1963-1972, Wayne State University

… → 2013

History, M.A., Wayne State University

… → 2009

English/American Studies, M.A., Sichuan International Studies University

… → 2003