Lin Mosei

Lin Mosei (Chinese: 林茂生; pinyin: Lín Màoshēng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lîm Bō͘-seng; born October 30, 1887, disappeared March 11, 1947) was a Taiwanese academic, educator, and the first Taiwanese to receive a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree. He was additionally an esteemed calligrapher,^[1] and was a baptized Christian.

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.^[2]

1928 – M.A. in literature from Columbia University in New York. He studied under John Dewey and Paul Monroe.^[3]

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.^[4] 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

1. (Chinese)
2. (Chinese)
3. 李筱峰. 追尋個人與民族的尊嚴─為林茂生博士論文中譯本而寫 (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2006-07-26.
4. Lin Mosei (1929). Public Education in Formosa Under the Japanese Administration: A Historical and Analytical Study of the Development and the Cultural Problems (Ph.D.). Columbia University. OCLC 62316617.

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.