Career
He resides in Taipei, Taiwan, where he works as an author and social activist. His name has sometimes been misspelled as Lin Yih-chih. In May 2008 he appeared in the British Channel 4 documentary called "The World"s Smallest Manitoba and Maine" hosted by Mark Dolan.
Lin suffers from osteogenesis imperfecta, a genetic bone disorder that hinders normal growth of bone and bodily height.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records he is 67.5 cm (2 ft 258 in) tall. Others have also claimed the "Shortest Manitoba" title.
He Pingping, from China, measured 73 cm (2 ft 474 in) high and in 2007 was crowned as the world"s shortest man who could walk. In 2006, disallowed an application from a then fourteen-year-old Nepalese boy, Khagendra Thapa Magar, who has since turned 18 and taken the title of "World"s Shortest Manitoba".
