Syaru Shirley Lin, Harry Harding

Syaru Shirley Lin and Harry Harding Jr. are to be married July 22 at the Gosport Chapel on Star Island, off the coast of Rye, N.H. The Rev. Darrick D. Jackson, a Unitarian-Universalist minister, is to officiate.

Ms. Lin, 50, is an adjunct professor of political economy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and a lecturer in political science at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. She is the author of “Taiwan’s China Dilemma: Contested Identities and Multiple Interests in Taiwan’s Cross-Strait Economic Policy.” She is also a member of the Hong Kong Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation, an advisory group to the government of Hong Kong, and is a council member of the Focused Ultrasound Foundation, an organization that promotes a nonsurgical therapeutic technology. She graduated cum laude from Harvard and received a doctoral degree in politics and public administration from the University of Hong Kong.

She is a daughter of Lin Tai Chun Tao Wendy and Lin Shun Ho Gary of Taipei. The bride’s father retired from the Taipei operations of IBM, for which he was both the director for outsourcing in greater China, and the manager of the company’s air-traffic control division. Her mother retired as the chairwoman of Excelsior Bi-Lingual Experimental School in Zhuzhou, China.

Mr. Harding, 71, is a professor of public policy at the University of Virginia, where he was the founding dean of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. He graduated from Princeton and received a doctoral degree in political science from Stanford.

He is the son of the late Vernette Vickers Harding, who lived in Rhinebeck, N.Y., and the late Mr. Harding who lived in New York. The groom’s mother was a bone-development researcher at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. His father retired as the director of corporate relations at Time magazine.

The couple met in Hong Kong in 2007, at a dinner that followed a talk, entitled “Rethinking U.S.-China Relations,” that Mr. Harding had given at the University of Hong Kong. They began dating in 2009, after he accepted a position as a visiting professor at the university.

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