Lin Mosei

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Lin Mosei (Chinese: 林茂生, born October 30, 1887, disappeared March 11, 1947) was a Taiwanese academic, educator, and the first Taiwanese to receive a Ph.D. in philosophy. He was additionally an esteemed calligrapher^[1], and was a baptized Christian.

Lin disappeared within days of the 228 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, is an academic and educator in psychiatry.

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1887 - Born in Fu-Cheng, Taiwan (present-day Tainan City).

1916 - B.A. in philosophy from Tokyo Imperial University. He was the first Taiwanese graduate at the university.^[2]

1928 - M.A. in literature from Columbia University in New York. He studied under John Dewey and Paul Monroe^[3].

1929 - Ph.D. in philosophy 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.