Quoc Sinh Nguyen is an associate researcher at the Institute of History, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, Ph.D. from Renmin University of China (RUC) and a postdoctoral researcher at Jinan University (JNU). His main research areas are Sino-Vietnamese relations and Southeast Asian issues. His main academic papers include Understanding Some New Issues of the Vietnamese Ding Dynasty from the Perspective of Comparing Historical Records between Song and Vietnam , A Comparative Study of the Records on the Ding-Song Relationship in Sino-Vietnamese Historical Records , and The Game of Imperial Power: Another Cause of the Song-Ly War , among others. He has published monographs such as  Studies on Ancient Vietnamese Figures ,  History of Gao Ping  and  General History of Vietnam .