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.
1929 –
Ph.D. in
education 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.[6] The paper, written in
English, was not translated into
Chinese until 2000.
^Lin Mosei (1929). Public Education in Formosa Under the Japanese Administration: A Historical and Analytical Study of the Development and the Cultural Problems (Ph.D.). Columbia University.
OCLC62316617.