Lin Mosei (; born 30 October 1887, disappeared 11 March 1947) was a Taiwanese academic,

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, and the first Taiwanese to receive a

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(Ph.D.) degree. He was additionally an esteemed calligrapher, and was a

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. 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 Lin Tsung-yi (Taiwanese: Lîm Chong-gī, ; 19 September 1920 – 20 July 2010) was an academic and educator in psychiatry. Lin was born in 1920 in Tainan Prefecture, Japanese Taiwan (modern-day Tainan, Taiwan) to Lin Mosei and Chai-Hwang Wang. L ...

, was an academic and educator in psychiatry.

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:1887 – Born in the city of ''Tainan-fu'', Qing Taiwan (present-day

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), to a

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minister :1916 – B.A. in

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from the Tokyo Imperial University. He was the first Taiwanese graduate at the university. :1928 – M.A. in

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from

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. He studied under

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and

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. :1929 –

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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''. The paper, written in

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, was not translated into

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until 2000. :1945 – Became Dean of Arts at the National Taiwan University in

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. :1947 – Disappeared on March 11.

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