Annping Chin (Chinese: 金安平; pinyin: Jīn Ānpíng; born 1950 in Taiwan) is an American historian and sinologist.
[1] Her fields of study include Confucianism, Taoism, and the Chinese intellectual tradition.
She lives in West Haven, Connecticut, with her husband Jonathan Spence until his death in 2021.
She has two children, writer Mei Chin and video game designer Yar Woo.
[2] Chin has written or translated six books:[3] She also co-authored, with her husband Jonathan Spence, Chinese Century: A Photographic History of the Last Hundred Years (Random House, 1996).