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John Lin (林榮勳)

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John Lin (林榮勳)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: John Lin
  • Chinese: 林榮勳
  • Era: ?- 1979
  • Geography: 台灣台北
  • Core roles: professor, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Education

  • 台灣大學 — B.S. 政治
  • 費城賓州大學 — M.S.
  • 費城賓州大學 — 1960 — Ph.D.

Employment

  • 紐約州立大學紐保茲 (New Paltz) — Professor
  • 紐約州立大學紐保茲 (New Paltz) — 政治系主任

Family

No filled family fields on the TAH profile.

Role in the Community

  • Co-founder of 台灣人的自由台灣 (Formosans’ Free Formosa, 3F), Philadelphia 1956, with 楊東傑, 陳以德, 林錫湖 and 盧主義. A corpus memoir recalls the group’s origin in weekend discussions where John Lin first asked 「How can Taiwan become independent? Aren’t we all Chinese?」 before being persuaded into independence advocacy: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/my-stories-897|My Stories #897 — 3F founding memoir]].
  • Memoir detail: Lin grew up in a Taipei physician family; in 1949 he was president of the NTU student council (台大學生自治會會長), was seized by secret police during a campus raid, and was released only after President 傅斯年 intervened — an experience that turned him against the KMT’s reign of terror; he later read international relations at the University of Pennsylvania with 陳以德: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys85|Our Journeys #85]].
  • Founding-member composition per the English edition of the same memoir: of the five 3F founders (Tom Yang, John Lin, Edward Chen, Echo Lin, Tsu-Yi Jay Loo), all but Lin were graduates of 台南一中 (Tainan First Senior High), and all but Echo (林錫湖, a doctoral student in organic chemistry) were Christians; Lin and Chen rented a room near UPenn with Yang (then entering UPenn’s radiology graduate program) and worked at a church and a textile factory to cover living expenses: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys85-eng|Our Journeys #85 (EN)]].
  • Encyclopedia entry honoring him as an enlightenment figure of the independence movement: 1950年代.
  • 3F membership roster work: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/198-e6-9e-97-e6-a6-ae-e5-8b-b3-e3-80-81-e6-9e-97-e9-8c-ab-e6-b9-96-e3-80-81-e9-9|TAH #198 「林榮勳、林錫湖、陳以德、楊東傑和盧主義 — members of Formosans’ Free Formosa (3F)」]] — records the 1956 Philadelphia founding by 陳以德、盧主義、林榮勳、楊東傑、林錫湖 (the movement’s shift from Japan to the US), the 1958 reorganisation into 台灣獨立聯盟 (UFI), and the wave of later student recruits (e.g. 楊宗昌 1964) who joined despite KMT surveillance and passport threats.
  • HOLD: conflict in the reorganisation date of 3F into 台灣獨立聯盟 (UFI) — 1958 per [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys33|Our Journeys #33]], TAH #198, and TAH #1011 vs 1959 per the TJJ essay below. Not auto-merged.
  • Note: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whoswho1069|TAH #1070 “John Lin” 林釗永]] is a different person, not linked here.
  • Note (grep 2026-10-10): the “John Lin” thanked among sports enthusiasts in All Eyes on NBA Sensation Jeremy Lin is likely a different namesake (the work’s index already links this page as “mentioned in this record”); not attributed as a community connection. The 2020 TJJ 基進黨 article matches only the substring 「光榮勳章」, not this person.
  • His own TAH encyclopedia card is in-corpus: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whoswho1011|TAH #1011 「John Lin 林榮勳」]], which also records the 3F→UFI reorganisation as 1958 (matching #33, against the 1959 essay date — HOLD above unchanged).

From the record

  • 複核（TJJ-A09250400-2, 2026-09-25）：本 slice 4 篇 TJJ 文章（2d725102 去殖民化（下）、039ccce4 Joyce Lin 墜機、162effa7 TASF 紓困獎學金、1d72b2ae 小英後援會造勢）subject link 再驗證：{NAME} 對應真實（記述確認見於正文），無錯鏈、無虛鏈；含該文 wikilink 的日期事實條目已在庫 — SKIP，無新材料。

  • 覆核（TJJ-A09240700-1, 2026-09-25）：本 slice 文章 c251f8fc（獨傲村夫〈去殖民化—正常化（下）〉2023-06-02）正文再驗證——與陳以德、盧主義1956費城創3F、1959改名台獨聯盟之記述確認見於正文（無錯鏈、無虛鏈）；2023-06-02 條目已在庫並掛鏈本檔 — SKIP，無新材料。

  • 覆核（TJJ-A09230700-2, 2026-09-24）：本 slice 文章 c03323d2（獨傲村夫〈從二戰後全球去殖民化，到台灣國家正常化（下）〉）正文再驗證——1956年與陳以德、盧主義於費城創3F、1959改名台灣獨立聯盟之記述確認見於正文，subject 連結為真（無錯鏈、無虛鏈）；2023-06-02 條目已在庫並掛鏈本檔 — SKIP，無新材料。

  • 覆核（TJJ-A09230700-1, 2026-09-24）：本 slice 獨傲村夫〈從二戰後全球去殖民化，到台灣國家正常化（下）〉（c251f8fc, 2023-06-02）正文再驗證——1956費城創3F（Free Formosa for Formosans）及1959改名台灣獨立聯盟之記述確認見於正文，subject 連結為真；2023-06-02 條目已在庫 — SKIP，無新材料。

  • 複核（TJJ-A09171100-4, 2026-09-24）：本 slice 文章 2d725102f4e64118 正文再驗證——本頁 subject link 為真實對應（無錯鏈、無虛鏈），對應 From-the-record 條目已在庫 — SKIP，無新材料。

  • 複核（TJJ-A09231000-2, 2026-09-25）：本 slice 4 篇 TJJ 文章（2d725102 去殖民化（下）、039ccce4 Joyce Lin 墜機、162effa7 TASF 紓困獎學金、1d72b2ae 小英後援會造勢）subject link 再驗證：林榮勳 對應真實，無錯鏈、無虛鏈；對應 From-the-record 條目已在庫 — SKIP，無新材料。

  • 2023-06-02 — Essay 「從二戰後全球去殖民化，到台灣國家正常化（下）」 recalls that Lin, with 陳以德 and 盧主義 — all NTU graduates — founded the 3F (Free Formosa for Formosans) independence group in Philadelphia in 1956 — the earliest US-based 台獨 organisation — renamed 「台灣獨立聯盟」/ United Formosans for Independence in 1959 (TJJ, 2023-06-02; 2023 archive; 2025 archive).

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-25 (slice 09240500-2): SKIP-new-facts — ZH+EN re-grep returns only already-linked hits (my-stories-897, ourjourneys85 + eng, ourjourneys33, 275 林榮勳博士 encyclopedia entry, own whoswho1011 card, TJJ 去殖民化 essays); [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys33|Our Journeys #33]] reconfirms the 1956 3F founding and 1958 UFI reorganisation already absorbed with the HOLD above. No new absorbable material.

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