Dr. Qiu Jin is an Associate Professor of History and International Studies and the Director of the Institute of Asian Studies at Old Dominion University. She earned her PhD in History from the University of Hawaii in 1995. She specializes in Chinese history and specifically in the cultural revolution. Dr. Jin is the author of The Culture of Power: The Lin Biao Incident in the Cultural Revolution (Stanford University Press, 1999) and the co-editor of A Modern and Contemporary History of China, Volume I, trans. (Beijing: People's Education Press, 2003). In 1995-1996 she held a post-doctoral fellowship at the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California at Berkeley.
