May-Shine Lin (PhD, Edinburgh, UK) is former Vice President for International Cooperation, National Chengchi University (NCCU), Taiwan (2020-22), and currently Distinguished Professor of History at NCCU. She will transfer to National Taiwan University in February 2023. She was born in 1970 in Matsu Islands, an offshore archipelago of Taiwan, grew up and educated in the main island, and then got her MSc and PhD from another bigger island, Britain. Her expertise includes female rule, clothing culture and national identities in early modern England, and have published several articles and books, such as “‘Our Poore and Rude Progenitours’: A shift in Writing and Visualizing Ancient British Ancestry in Late Tudor and Early Stuart England” (2020), The Fleur-de-lis and the Rose: Pre-Modern Monarchy in France and England (co-authored, 2019), and “The Body’s Body”: Thinking through Clothing in Early Modern Europe (2017). Now she is interested in island studies and investigating the correlation between Britishness and Islandness in early modern period.