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


      Biography


      Lin was born in Shenyang. 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. Among Lin's influences were Yin Haiguang, Friedrich Hayek, and Edward Shils.
      Lin was elected a member of Academia Sinica in 1994. He died in Denver, Colorado on 22 November 2022 of dementia, aged 88.


      Selected books


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


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