Xin Haonian (November 2, 1947-) is a writer and scholar. Born in Nanjing, Xin Haonian was admitted to Wuhu No. 1 Middle School in 1964, and went to work in the rural area of Wuhu as a sent-down youth after graduation. In 1968, he worked as an elementary school teacher, a middle school teacher, and a staff member of the local education bureau. In 1976, Xin began to publish long novels, joined the Chinese Writers' Association in 1982, and worked as a full-time writer in the Anhui Federation of Literary and Arts Circles. He was later awarded by the Ministry of Education as a "first-class writer", and was appointed as a professor by Nankai University in 1994. Xin was also a representative and a Standing Committee member of the local people’s congress.
In March 1994, Xin did not accept to go to Nankai and traveled to North America instead, where he has since dedicated to research on modern Chinese history, especially Republican history. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute of East Asian Studies at Columbia University, where he was also appointed as a post-doctoral researcher in history. In 2001, Xin founded a history magazine *Huanghuagang* (named after the location of an important Republican uprising ) and served as its editor-in-chief, and established the Institute of Modern Chinese History. In October 2014, he announced the reorganization and renaming of the Institute as the Working Committee for the Restoration of the Republic of China (Mainland). In May 2018, he founded the Greater Republic of China Restoration Society in New York with supporters of the restoration of the lost lands of the Republic of China.
Xin has written and published several novels and academic monographs, including *Chronicle of the 1980s*, a trilogy satirizing China's polarization between the rich and poor and authoritarian rule, and *Who is the New China*, a monograph on modern history criticizing the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist government.
In March 1994, Xin did not accept to go to Nankai and traveled to North America instead, where he has since dedicated to research on modern Chinese history, especially Republican history. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute of East Asian Studies at Columbia University, where he was also appointed as a post-doctoral researcher in history. In 2001, Xin founded a history magazine *Huanghuagang* (named after the location of an important Republican uprising ) and served as its editor-in-chief, and established the Institute of Modern Chinese History. In October 2014, he announced the reorganization and renaming of the Institute as the Working Committee for the Restoration of the Republic of China (Mainland). In May 2018, he founded the Greater Republic of China Restoration Society in New York with supporters of the restoration of the lost lands of the Republic of China.
Xin has written and published several novels and academic monographs, including *Chronicle of the 1980s*, a trilogy satirizing China's polarization between the rich and poor and authoritarian rule, and *Who is the New China*, a monograph on modern history criticizing the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist government.
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