Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., Michigan State University 1966
  • M.A., Syracuse University 1963
  • B.A., Tunghai University (Taiwan) 1960
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  Previous Appointments & Affiliations

  • Professor with Tenure, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1990 - 2011
  • Oscar L. Tang Family Distinguished Professor of East Asian Studies, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2006 - 2011
  • Director of the Asian and Pacific Studies Institute, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1998 - 2002
  • Director, Asian Pacific Studies Institute, Office of Area Studies and International Studies 1990 - 1998
• Expertise
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  Global Scholarship

  • Expertise

    • China (Country) 

  • Research

    • China (Country) 
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Doctoral Dissertation Research: Examining race, class and social capital in devastated neighborhoods awarded by  National Science Foundation 2014 - 2015
  • Wedding Banquets: A Study of a Chinese Institution for Social Capital awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 2003 - 2004
  • Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships awarded by Department of Education 2000 - 2003
  • Doctoral Dissertation Research: Participation and Social Capital Creation awarded by  National Science Foundation 2001 - 2002
  • National Resource Center and FLAS Fellowships awarded by Department of Education 1997 - 2000
  • National Resource Center and FLAS Fellowships awarded by Department of Education 1997 - 2000
  • The Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 1999 - 2000
  • Triangle East Asian Studies Center FLAS Fellowships awarded by Department of Education 1994 - 1997
  • Triangle East Asian Studies Center-FLAS Fellowships awarded by Department of Education 1994 - 1997
  • Triangle East Asian Studies Consortium awarded by Department of Education 1994 - 1997
  • Triangle East Asian Studies Project awarded by Department of Education 1995 - 1997
  • Triangle East Asian Studies Project Deepening Area and Language Studies in an Internationalizing Region awarded by Department of Education 1995 - 1997
  • Stressors, Resources and Mental Health - A Life Course Study awarded by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) 1992 - 1996
  • Stressors, Resources and Mental Health--A Life Course Study awarded by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) 1992 - 1996
  • Stressors, Resources, and Mental Health - A Life Course Study awarded by National Institutes of Health 1992 - 1996
  • Stressors, Resources, and Mental Health--A Life Course Study awarded by National Institutes of Health 1992 - 1996
  • Taiwanese Performing Group Support awarded by Mary Duke Biddle Foundation 1994 - 1995
  • Rural Transformation in China awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 1993 - 1994
  • Status Attainment in a Chinese Urban Area awarded by  National Science Foundation 1990 - 1992
  • Life Events, Social Support and Drinking awarded by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) 1990 - 1992
  • Life Events, Social Support, and Drinking awarded by National Institutes of Health 1990 - 1992
  • Life Events, Social support, and Drinking awarded by National Institutes of Health 1990 - 1992
  • Family Practices in Chinese Societies awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 1990 - 1991
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Ensel, W. M., and N. Lin. “Physical Fitness and the Stress Process.” Journal of Community Psychology 32, no. 1 (January 1, 2004): 81–101. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.10079.
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    • Nan Lin, P., and P. Ma Rong. “Sociology and Social Development: a Conversation.” Sociological Research (China), no. 4 (2003): 106–13.
    • Lin Nan, K. ““How the East and the West Shall Meet?”.” Development and Society December 31-2 (2002): 211–44.
    • Lin Nan, Walter M. “ASocial Capital: Contending Paradigms and Empirical Evidence.@.” Hong Kong Journal of Sociology, no. 2 (2001): 1–38.
    • Yen, S., C. J. Robins, and N. Lin. “A cross-cultural comparison of depressive symptom manifestation: China and the United States.” J Consult Clin Psychol 68, no. 6 (December 2000): 993–99. https://doi.org/10.1037//0022-006x.68.6.993.
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    • Lin, Nan. “Inequality in Social Capital.” Contemporary Sociology 29, no. 6 (November 2000): 785–785. https://doi.org/10.2307/2654086.
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    • Ensel, Walter M., and Nan Lin. “ADistal Stressors, Proximal Stressors, Social Resources and the Stress Process.” Formosa Journal of Mental Health 13, no. 2 (June 2000): 83–108.
    • Lin, Nan, Xiaolan Ye, and Walter M. Ensel. “Revisiting Social Support: Integration of Its Dimensions.” Formosa Journal of Mental Health 13–2 (June 2000): 37–64.
    • Ensel, W. M., and N. Lin. “Age, the stress process, and physical distress: the role of distal stressors.” Journal of Aging and Health 12, no. 2 (May 2000): 139–68. https://doi.org/10.1177/089826430001200201.
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    • Lin, N., X. Ye, and W. M. Ensel. “Social support and depressed mood: a structural analysis.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 40, no. 4 (December 1999): 344–59.
    • Peek, M. K., and N. Lin. “Age differences in the effects of network composition on psychological distress.” Social Science & Medicine (1982) 49, no. 5 (September 1999): 621–36. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0277-9536(99)00139-2.
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    • Lin Nan, Samuel B. “Building a Network Theory of Social Capital.” Connections 22, no. 1 (1999): 28–51.
    • Lai, Gina, Nan Lin, and Shu-yin Leung. “Network Resources and Contact Resources: Structural and Action Effects of Social Resources.” Social Networks 20 (1998): 159–78.
    • Ensel, W. M., M. K. Peek, N. Lin, and G. Lai. “Stress in the life course: a life history approach.” Journal of Aging and Health 8, no. 3 (August 1996): 389–416. https://doi.org/10.1177/089826439600800305.
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    • Ensel, W. M., and N. Lin. “Distal stressors and the life stress process.” Journal of Community Psychology 24, no. 1 (January 1996): 66–82.
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    • Lin Nan, Samuel B. “Les Ressources Sociales: Une Theorie Due Capital Social (Social Resources: A Theory of Social Capital.” Revue Francaise De Sociologie XXXVI, no. 4 (October 1995): 685–704.
    • Lin Nan, Samuel B. “Local Market Socialism: Rural Reform in China,.” Theory and Society 24 (1995): 301–54.
    • Lin, Elizabeth C., Elizabeth C. Nan, Chinchun Yi, Yinghwa Chang, and Yungmei Tsai. “Sociocultural Regime in Institutional Development: The Family Enterprise of Private Colleges in Taiwan.” Asiatische Studien/Etudes Asiatiques (Switzerland)  Special Issue on Chinese Societies at the Dawn of the Third Millennium. Xlix 1 (1995): 173–95.
    • Lin, Gina, Gina Nan, and Gina Lai. “Stress in Urban China,.” Social Science and Medicine 41, no. 8 (1995): 1131–46.
    • Ensel, W. M., and N. Lin. “The life stress paradigm and psychological distress.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 32, no. 4 (December 1991): 321–41.
    • Lin Nan, Samuel B. “Chinese Family Structure and Chinese Society.” Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica 65 (1989): 59–129.
    • Lin Nan, Walter M. “Measuring Depressive Symptomatology in China.” Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 177, no. 3 (1989): 121–31.
    • Lin, Samuel B., Samuel B. Nan, and Walter M. Ensel. “Life Stress and Health: Stressors and Resources.” American Sociological Review 54 (1989): 382–99.
    • Lin, Gina, Gina Nan, and Wen Xie. “Occupational Prestige in Urban China.” American Journal of Sociology 93, no. 4 (1988): 793832.
    • Lin Nan, Walter M. “The Sinicization of Sociology.” Revue Europeene Des Sciences Revue Europeene Des Sciences Xxv 76 (1987): 127–39.
    • Pan, Walter M., Walter M. Yunkang, and Nan Lin. “Family Models in Contemporary Urban China.” Sociological Studies (Shehuixue Yanjiu), Beijing 3 (1987): 54–67.
    • Lin, Wen, Wen Nan, Mary Woelfel, and Stephen C. Light. “The Buffering Effect of Social Support Subsequent to an Important Life Event.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 26 (1985): 247–63.
    • Lin, Yungmei, Yungmei Nan, and Ling Wang. “Social Support, Life Events and Depression: Models and Evidence.” .."  Proceedings for Social Support and Health:  New Directions for Theory Development and Research, 1985.
    • Lin, Stephen C., Stephen C. Nan, and Walter M. Ensel. “Depression﷓Mobility and Its Social Etiology: The Role of Life Events and Social Support.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 25 (1984): 176–88.
    • Lin, Ling, Ling Nan, and Alfred Dean. “Social Support and Depression: A Panel Study.” Social Psychiatry 19 (1984): 83–91.
    • Hingson, Walter M., W. Ralph, Scotch Norman, Mangione Thomas, Meyers Allan, Glantz Leonard, Heeren Timothy, Lin Nan, Mucatel Marc, and Pierce Glenn. “Impact of Legislation Raising the Legal Drinking Age in Massachusetts from 18 to 20.” American Journal of Public Health 73, no. 2 (1983): 163–70.
    • Lin Nan, Alfred. “Social Resources and Social Actions: A Progress Report.” Connections 6, no. 2 (1983): 10–16.
    • Lin, Pierce, Pierce Nan, and Walter M. Ensel. “Causal Interpretation of Interaction Effect (Reply to Boyce).” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 22, no. 2 (1981): 195–96.
    • Lin, Walter M., Walter M. Nan, Alfred Dean, and Walter M. Ensel. “Social Support Scales: A Methodological Note.” Schizophrenia Bulletin 7, no. 1 (1981): 73–89.
    • Lin, Alfred, Alfred Nan, Walter M. Ensel, and John C. Vaughn. “Social Resources and Strength of Ties: Structural Factors in Occupational Status Attainment.” American Sociological Review 46, no. 4 (1981): 393–405.
    • Lin, Lawrence P., Lawrence P. Nan, John C. Vaughn, and Walter M. Ensel. “Social Resources and Occupational Status Attainment.” Social Forces 59, no. 4 (1981): 1163–81.
    • Kuo, Walter M., H. Wen, and Lin Nan. “Locus of Control and Symptoms of Psychological Distress Among Chinese﷓Americans.” International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 1979, 176–87.
    • Lin, Lin, Lin Nan, Ronald Simeone, Walter Ensel, and Wen Kuo. “Social Support, Stressful Life Events, and Illness: A Model and an Empirical Test.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 20, no. 2 (1979): 108–19.
    • Lin, Nan, Nan Nan, Paul Dayton, and Peter Greenwald. “Analyzing the Instrumental Uses of Relations in the Context of Social Structure.” Sociological Methods and Research 7, no. 2 (1978): 149–66.
    • Hingson, Nan, Nan Ralph, Nan Lin, and R. A. Hingson. “Achieving Higher Immunization Receptivity.” Public Health Reviews VI–1 and 2 (1977): 93–117.
    • Kuo, Walter M., H. Wen, and Lin Nan. “Assimilation of Chinese﷓Americans in Washington, D.C.” Sociological Quarterly 18 (1977): 340352.
    • Dean, Wen, Wen Alfred, and Nan Lin. “The Stress﷓Buffering Role of Social Support.” Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 165, no. 6 (1977): 403–17.
    • Lin Nan, R. A. “The McIntire March: A Study of Recruitment and Commitment.” Public Opinion Quarterly 38, no. 4 (1975): 562–73.
    • Lin, Daniel, Daniel Nan, and Daniel Yauger. “The Process of Occupational Status Achievement: A Preliminary Cross﷓national Comparison.” American Journal of Sociology 81, no. 3 (1975): 543–62.
    • Lin, Lin, Lin Nan, and Daniel Yauger. “Reply to Hansen and Haller.” American Journal of Sociology 82, no. 4 (1975): 857–62.
    • Lin, John C., John C. Nan, and Ronald S. Burt. “Differential Effects of Information Channels in the Process of Innovation Diffusion.” Social Forces 54 (1975): 256–74.
    • Lin Nan, R. A. “Stratification of the Formal Communication System in American Sociology.” The American Sociologist 9 (1974): 199–206.
    • Lin, R. A., R. A. Nan, and Ralph Hingson. “Diffusion of Family Planning Innovations: Theoretical and Practical Issues.” Studies in Family Planning 5, no. 6 (1974): 189–95.
    • Hingson, Ronald S., Ronald S. Ralph, and Nan Lin. “Communication Participation and Individual Receptivity to Health Innovations.” International Journal of Health Education 16, no. 1 (1973): 5–14.
    • Garvey, Kazuo, D. William, Lin Nan, E Nelson Carnot, and Tomita Kazuo. “Research Studies in Patterns of Scientific Communication: I. General description of research program.” Information Storage and Retrieval 8, no. 3 (1972): 111–22.
    • Lin Nan, Tomita. “A Comparison Between the Scientific Communication Model and the Mass Communication Model.” Professional Communication 15, no. 2 (1972): 34–39.
    • Garvey, Daniel, William D Nan Lin, Carnot E. Nelson, and Kazuo Tomita. “Research Studies in Patterns of Scientific Communication: II. The role of the national meeting in scientific and technical communication.” Information Storage and Retrieval 8, no. 4 (1972): 159–69.
    • Garvey, Nan, D. William, Lin Nan, and Tomita Kazuo. “Research Studies in Patterns of Scientific Communication: III. Information﷓exchange processes associated with the production of journal articles.” Information Storage and Retrieval 8, no. 5 (1972): 207–21.
    • Garvey, Juan, D. William, Lin Nan, and E Nelson Carnot. “A Comparison of Scientific Communication Behavior of Social and Physical Scientists.” International Social Science 23, no. 2 (1971): 256–72.
    • Lin Nan, Nan. “Information Flow, Influence Flow and the Decision﷓Making Process.” Journalism Quarterly 48 (1971): 33–40.
    • Lin, Tomita, Tomita Nan, Ralph Hingson, and Juan Allwood-Paredes. “Mass Immunization Campaign in El Salvador, 1969.” Hsmha Health Reports 86 (1971): 1112–21.
    • Zaltman, E Nelson, E Nelson Gerald, and Nan Lin. “On the Nature of Innovations.” The American Behavioral Scientist 14, no. 5 (1971): 651–73.
    • Lin, E Nelson, E Nelson Nan, William D. Garvey, and Carnot E. Nelson. “Publication Fate of Material Presented at an Annual ASA Meeting: Two Years After the Meeting.” The American Sociologist 5 (August 1970): 22–25.
    • Nelson, Nan, E. Carnot, D Garvey William, and Lin Nan. “Scientific Information Exchange Surrounding the 1968 Annual Meeting of the American Education Research Association.” American Educational Research Journal, March 1970, 169–88.
    • Garvey, Ralph, D. William, Lin Nan, and E Nelson Carnot. “Communication in the Physical and the Social Sciences.” Science 170 (1970): 1166–73.
    • Hanneman, Carnot E., J. Gerhard, Tom W. Carroll, Everette M. Rogers, J David Stanfield, and Nan Lin. “Computer Simulation of Innovation Diffusion in a Peasant Village.” American Behavioral Scientist 12, no. 6 (1969): 36–45.
    • Lin, Nan, Nan Nan, and Carnot E. Nelson. “Bibliographic Reference Pattern in Core Sociological Journals, 1965﷓1966.” The American Sociologist 4, no. 1 (1969): 47–50.

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