Dr. Chiung T. Ling (林安息)
Identity Snapshot
- English: Dr. Chiung T. Ling
- Chinese: 林安息 (炯東)
- Era: 1897-1980
- Geography: Tainan, Taiwan
- Core roles: scientist, physician, professor, educator
- Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who
Dr. Chiung T. Ling 林安息(炯東)醫師 – History of Taiwanese American (T.A. Archives) 台美史料中心
Education
- Taiwan Governor’s Medical School (台灣總督府醫學校) — 1918 — B.S.
- John Hopkins Univ. — 1952 — Ph.D., Biochemical
Employment
- Chunyangtang Hospital (春陽堂醫院) — Self-Employed — Jefferson Medical College — Assistant Professor — Johns Hopkins University — Associate Professor
Role in the Community
Corpus re-grep 2026-09-24 (DEEPEN-X slice 09230700-24; prior 09221200-25; 2026-09-25 slice 09240800-18; 2026-09-26 slice 09251023-13): hit set = ourjourneys285, whos-who-1852, work #22, index — all already cited below; no additional memoir narrative found. Verified-saturated.
- A TA Archives history of Taiwanese American physicians records him as one of fewer than 10 among the 1,888 doctors trained by the 台灣總督府醫學校 (1889-1945) who went to Europe or North America for advanced study — the US-bound being 林安息(炯東) and 王振明醫師 — i.e. part of the earliest bridge between colonial-era Taiwanese medical education and the later台美人 community: ourjourneys285 (history of TA physicians).
- Profiled in the corpus as a pioneering medical doctor (work entry dated 1935): 1935. HOLD: conflict between the work’s 1935 milestone date and the page’s 1952 Johns Hopkins Ph.D. — both retained, not merged.
- The same corpus record situates his generation: US immigration policy of the era was anti-Chinese and anti-Japanese, so pre-WWII Taiwanese who trained in the US (like 劉清風醫師, a 1926 graduate) could not stay and settle — no Taiwanese-American physicians existed before the war; 林安息 belongs to the first wave that broke through that barrier: ourjourneys285.
- His TAH encyclopedia entry is in the corpus: 1852. Dr. Chiung T. Ling 林安息(炯東)醫師.
Family
- Daughter: 林似蘭