Lin Ya-Yin is a PhD Candidate at the Graduate Institute of East Asian Studies at National Cheng-Chih University, and a faculty member nurtured by the college of International & National Defense Affairs at National Defense University. Her research interests include Chinese united front work, cross-strait relations, and state-society relations in China. Her doctoral dissertation focuses on the typological analysis of China governance strategies in popular culture. Ya-Yin is also engaged in another research project on China's gray zone strategy, aiming to clarify the operational patterns of the China’s cognitive warfare against Taiwan through case studies of three military drills, and to propose countermeasures. 

   
Publications
Lin, Ya Yin. 2024. “Entertainment Ideologization: The Online Games Governance of State-Society Relationship in China. Mainland China Journal, 67(1): 55-87. (TSSCI)
Lin, Ya Yin. 2022. “The Institutional Adaptation of the CCP's Policy and the Changes of Main Melody Movies.” Publication of Military Social Science, 21: 3-26.
Lin, Ya Yin. 2021. “CCP's Propaganda and Grand United Front Work during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Publication of Military Social Science, 19: 55-76.
Lin, Ya Yin. 2021. “China's Cognitive Warfare Strategy and Taiwan's Countermeasures.” National Defense Journal, 36(1): 1-22.

Conferences
Lin, Ya Yin. 2023.12.08. Telling the Dictator’s Story: A Typological Analysis of Pop Culture Governance in China. Paper presented at the State-Society Relations in Contemporary China Workshop, Institute of International Relations, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan (R.O.C.)

Lin, Ya Yin. 2022.03.31. Whose China? Who Is the Orthodoxy? The Discourse between Cross-Strait Toward the Parade to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the Victory in the War of Resistance. Paper presented at the Strategic Research Community Joint Graduate Student Paper Presentation, National Taiwan University, National Chengchi University, and National Defense University.

Lin, Ya Yin. 2021.04.09. From the Perspective of Visual Representation Theory: National Image Building in Chinese Hollywood-style Military Movies. Paper presented at the National Security and Stability in the Asia-Pacific region under COVID-19 Academic Seminar. FHK, NDU, Taiwan (R.O.C.)