Lin Shen ( zh, 林慎 October 1908 – 28 October 1992), also known as Mu En, was a Taiwanese politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to the

Legislative Yuan The Legislative Yuan is the unicameral legislature of the Republic of China (Taiwan) located in Taipei. The Legislative Yuan is composed of 113 members, who are directly elected for 4-year terms by people of the Taiwan Area through a parallel v ...

in 1948.《第一屆立法委員名鑑》，立法院立法委員名鑑指導委員會編印，1982年2月，第63頁

Biography

Born in Taipei County, Lin attended

Hwa Nan College Hwa Nan College, or Women's College of South China (), was a Christian institution of higher education in Fujian Fujian (; alternately romanized as Fukien or Hokkien) is a province on the southeastern coast of China. Fujian is bordere ...

Fuzhou Fuzhou (; , Fuzhounese: Hokchew, ''Hók-ciŭ''), alternately romanized as Foochow, is the capital and one of the largest cities in Fujian province, China. Along with the many counties of Ningde, those of Fuzhou are considered to constitute t ...

, graduating in 1930. She then studied biology at

Yenching University Yenching University (), was a university in Beijing, China, that was formed out of the merger of four Christian colleges between the years 1915 and 1920. The term "Yenching" comes from an alternative name for old Beijing, derived from its status ...

, before transferring to the Department of Sociology at Xiamen University, where she earned a BA. She subsequently attended the research institute of Columbia University. She worked in Shanghai and Nanjing, where she became secretary of the Young Women's Christian Association in both cities. In Shanghai she also served as chair of the Shanghai Taiwan Women's Association.續修臺北市志
人物志政治與經濟篇 Returning to Taiwan in 1946, she became research director of the Women's Campaign Committee. She chaired the Chinese Women's Anti-Communist Federation and the Taiwan Association for the Advancement of Social Undertakings, and was a committee member of the local Red Cross society.林慎
Legislative Yuan A member of the Kuomintang, she contested the 1948 elections to the

. Taiwan had eight seats and she finished seventh in the overall vote count. However, the electoral law reserved one of the eight seats for a woman, with votes for female candidates counted separately. As another female candidate Hsieh Er had received more votes than Li, the electoral authorities declared Hsieh elected and gave the other seven seats to the top seven male candidates. Lin took the matter to court, which ruled in her favour and she was declared elected. She remained a member of parliament until the 87th session in 1991. She died in October 1992.

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{{reflist 1908 births Yenching University alumni Xiamen University alumni Kuomintang Members of the Legislative Yuan in Taiwan 20th-century Chinese women politicians 20th-century Taiwanese women politicians Members of the 1st Legislative Yuan Members of the 1st Legislative Yuan in Taiwan 1992 deaths