Lin Yu-sheng

Lin Yu-sheng (Chinese: 林毓生; 7 August 1934 – 22 November 2022) was a Taiwanese philosopher and historian.

Lin in November 2008

Biography

Lin was born in Fengtian, Manchukuo. At the age of seven, he moved to Beijing, and aged 14, settled in Taiwan. In 1958, he earned a bachelor's degree in history from National Taiwan University. He emigrated to the United States in 1960, obtained a doctorate in social thought at the University of Chicago in 1970, and joined the University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty that year, after a period of postdoctoral research at Harvard University. Lin retired from UW–Madison in 2004.^[1][2] Among Lin's influences were Yin Haiguang, Friedrich Hayek, and Edward Shils.^[3][4][5]

Lin was elected a member of Academia Sinica in 1994.^[2] He died in Denver, Colorado, on 22 November 2022 of dementia, aged 88.^[6][7]

Selected books

• Lin, Yu-sheng (1979). Crisis of Chinese Consciousness: Radical Antitraditionalism in the May Fourth Era. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 9780299074104.^[8]