Lin Mosei (Chinese: 林茂生; pinyin: Lín Màoshēng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lîm Bō͘-seng; born 30 October 1887, disappeared 11 March 1947) was a Taiwanese academic, educator, and the first Taiwanese to receive a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree.[1][2] He was also a calligrapher[3] and was a baptized Christian.
Lin Mosei 林茂生 | |
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| Born | 30 October 1887 |
| Died | 11 March 1947 (aged 59) (Reportedly) Taipei |
| Nationality | Taiwanese |
| Occupation | Scholar |
Lin disappeared within days of the February 28 Incident in Taiwan in 1947; he is generally believed to have been killed as a part of Chinese Nationalist Party's crackdown after the island-wide civilian uprising.
Lin's second son, Lin Tsung-yi, was an academic and educator in psychiatry.
Timeline
- 1887 – Born in the city of Tainan-fu, Qing Taiwan (present-day Tainan, Taiwan), to a Presbyterian minister
- 1916 – B.A. in philosophy from the Tokyo Imperial University. He was the first Taiwanese graduate at the university.[4]
- 1928 – M.A. in literature from Columbia University in New York. He studied under John Dewey and Paul Monroe.[5]
- 1929 – Ph.D. in education from Columbia. His doctoral dissertation was entitled Public Education in Formosa Under the Japanese Administration: A Historical and Analytical Study of the Development and the Cultural Problems.[6] The paper, written in English, was not translated into Chinese until 2000.
- 1945 – Became Dean of Arts at the National Taiwan University in Taipei.
- 1947 – Disappeared on March 11.
References
External links
- Lin Mei-chun (Mar 22, 2001). "Seventy-year-old thesis still seen as valuable today". Taipei Times. p. 2.
- 歷史的228-消失的台灣精英. 228.org.tw (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2010-01-21.
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