Lin Yu-sheng

Lin Yu-sheng was a Taiwanese philosopher and historian.

Biography

Lin was born in Fengtian, Manchukuo. 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.