Lin Haiyin

Lin Haiyin was born in Osaka, in 1918 (in 1919 according to Renditions), to a Taiwanese father who traded in Japan. She grew up in Beijing, where she became a journalist. In 1948, she went to Taiwan with her husband and children, and from about 1953 edited the literary supplement of the United Daily News. On 23 April 1963, she published there a poem judged insulting to Chiang Kai-shek and resigned at once. She founded the magazine Chun wenxue in 1967, then in 1968 a publishing house devoted to literature. She died in Taipei on 1 December 2001.

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• NovelMemories of Peking: South Side Stories城南舊事Lin Haiyin · 1960Literature