Background
Lin Hu was born in 1887, in Luchuan, Guangxi, China.
Lin Hu was born in 1887, in Luchuan, Guangxi, China.
He was additionally an esteemed calligrapher, 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.
1916 – Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from the Tokyo Imperial University. He was the first Taiwanese graduate at the university.
1928 – Master of Arts in literature from Columbia University in New New York He studied under John Dewey and Paul Monroe.
1929 – Doctor of Philosophy in education from Columbia.
His doctoral dissertation was entitled Public Education in Formosa Under the Japanese Administration: Historical and Analytical Study of the Development and the Cultural Problems. 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.
Later Lin Hu became a member of the Legislative Yuan (parliament) after World World War II, and was elected vice-chairman of the Guangxi Provincial Political Consultative Conference after the Communist victory in the Chinese Civil War. He was also a member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese People"s Political Consultative Conference.