Lin-Chun WU is currently a professor of history at Taiwan Normal University. Her primary interests are modern China history and the postwar Taiwan-U.S. relations. She has been a visiting scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University and a Fulbright Scholar at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University.

Her newly published book Meiguo ren weijing de Zhongguo meng: Qiye, jishu yu guanxi wang (America’s Unfinished China Dream: Business, Technology and Networks), Taibei: Lian Jing, 2020, won the 10th Academia Sinica Scholarly Monograph Award in Humanities and Social Sciences. Other published books include Kuaguo jiaozhi xia de diguo mingyun: Jindai shi (The Fate of Empires under the Intertwining of Nations: Late Qing), Taibei: Lian Jing, 2024; Meiguo da qiye yu jindai Zhongguo de guoji hua (American Big Business and China’s Internationalization), Taibei: Lian Jing, 2012; Meifu shiyou gongsi zai Zhongguo, 1870–1933 (Standard Oil Company in China, 1870–1933), Xinbei: Dao Xiang, 2001 (revised simplified version, 2017); Lishi jiaoxue lilun yu shiwu (Theory and Practice of Teaching History), Taibei: Wu-Nan, 2003; and Meiguo yu Zhongguo zhengzhi: Yi nanbei fenlie zhengju wei zhongxin de tantao, 1917–1928 (American and Chinese Politics: A Study Centered on the North-South Division, 1917–1928), Taibei: Dong Da, 1996.

Her articles in English have appeared in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, the Journal of American-East Asian Relations and others.

Professor Wu was awarded the prestigious Distinguished Research Award (Jiechu yanjiujiang 傑出研究獎) for the year 2026 by the Taiwanese National Science and Technology Council (Guojia kexue weiyuanhui 國家科學委員會) in recognition of her prolific in-depth research on the economic history of Republican China, and especially on China-U.S. relations in the twentieth century.