Jin Yinan is a professor of the Strategy Teaching & Research Department of the National Defense University of the People's Liberation Army, major general, national model teacher, and excellent teacher of the PLA. He was “Outstanding Professor” of the National Defense University for three years from 2003 to 2005. Jin majors in national security strategy, and international conflict and crisis management. He formerly studied at the National Defense University of the United States and at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in the United Kingdom. In 2006, he won the “Award for Outstanding Professional and Technical Personnel” of the PLA; in 2007, he was elected delegate to the PLA Congress of Heroes and Models; in 2008, he was named “Military Role Model for 30 Years of Reform and Opening Up”; in 2009, he was rated as “Significant Contributor to National Defense and the Military”; in 2010, he was elected “Chinese Cultural Figure.” His work Misery and Glory: The Long March and Its Antecedents won the highest honor of national publication - “China Publication Government Award.” flJY2wphq4lLhE28MPpbvbrOESYHKZSi6Pk5WWuMmtt2TFedGVZ4xhYPNNWDoQeQ