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Prof. Chin-Chu Lin M.D. (林靜竹教授)

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Prof. Chin-Chu Lin M.D. (林靜竹教授)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Prof. Chin-Chu Lin M.D.
  • Chinese: 林靜竹教授
  • Era: 1935
  • Geography: Taichung, Taiwan
  • Core roles: scientist, physician, professor, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Prof. Chin-Chu Lin M.D. 林靜竹教授 – History of Taiwanese American (T.A. Archives) 台美史料中心

Education

  • National Taiwan Univ. College of Medicine — 1961 — M.D.
  • New York State Univ. Southern California Medical Center — 1969-1971 — Genetics researcher
  • New York Einstein Medical Center — 1974-1976 — Researcher of Taiwan Society of Perinatology

Employment

  • National Taiwan Univ. College of Medicine — Instructor of Obstetrics and Gynecology; Lecturer — (1966-1972) — Univ. of Chicago, OB-GYN Dept. — Professor and Director of High-Risk Obstetrics Clinic — (1976-2001) — Univ. of Chicago — Lifetime Honorary Professor (Professor Emeritus for Life) — (2001-) — Community — North American Taiwanese Professors’ Association (NATPA) 北美洲台灣人教授協會 — President — North American Taiwanese Medical Association (NATMA) 北美洲台灣人醫師協會 — Board Member and Chair of Education Committee

Timeline

  • 1935 — Born in Taichung, Taiwan
  • 1961 — M.D., National Taiwan University College of Medicine
  • 1966–1972 — Instructor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Lecturer, NTU College of Medicine
  • 1969–1971 — Genetics researcher, New York State Univ. Southern California Medical Center
  • 1974–1976 — Researcher (Taiwan Society of Perinatology), New York Einstein Medical Center
  • 1976–2001 — Professor and Director of the High-Risk Obstetrics Clinic, OB-GYN Dept., University of Chicago
  • 1979 — First certificate holder of Maternal & Fetal Medicine (per TAH #120 encyclopedia record held in vault)
  • 1980-02-16 — One of sixteen professors at the first NATPA founding-preparation meeting, University of Chicago International House (per [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys69|Our Journeys #69]] memoir)
  • 2001– — Lifetime Honorary Professor (Professor Emeritus for Life), University of Chicago

Community Leadership

Role in the Community (corpus-absorbed)

  • NATMA’s founding memoir [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys74|Our Journeys #74]] names him（芝加哥的林靜竹）as one of the trusted, like-minded doctors who responded enthusiastically to 周烒明’s city-by-city recruitment calls for Taiwanese physicians to join the association — direct documented evidence of his Chicago-area NATMA organizing role, consistent with the Board Member / Education Committee chair record above (English version: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys74-eng|Our Journeys #74 (EN)]]).
  • NATPA founding: he is named among the sixteen professors who attended the first NATPA preparation meeting on 1980-02-16 at the University of Chicago International House (with 張錦哲, 張旭成, 陳炳杞, 黃金來, 賴義雄, 伍焜玉 and others), where the draft constitution was debated and the decision made that the association should hold meetings in Taiwan and give research back to the homeland — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys69|Our Journeys #69]]; he is listed in the association’s early roster as 芝加哥大学婦產科敎授 in [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys79|Our Journeys #79]].
  • He authored [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys47|Our Journeys #47]] on the historical significance of NATPA’s first-ever annual meeting held in Taiwan (2004) — written by him in 2014, corroborating his NATPA presidency era.
  • Peace Church network (和平契友): in the 第一屆夏令會 memoir [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys268|Our Journeys #268]] he is listed among the New York-area contacts of the 台北和平教會 covenant-friend network used to recruit summer-conference attendees — pre-NATPA movement-organizing context alongside 許登龍, 李豐明, 黃賢理 and others.
  • He is also a published essayist/memoirist in the corpus: obituary memoir [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/my-stories-654|TAH #654: 懷念許世真（10/2018）]] and his literature collection [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/publications1130|TAH #1130: 愛心集——林靜竹教授文集 第二集（08/2017, 文學）]].

Authored Works in the Corpus

  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/61-e7-95-99-e7-be-8e-e5-a4-a2-e5-8f-b0-e7-81-a3-e6-83-85-e6-9e-97-e9-9d-9c-e7-ab|TAH #61: 留美夢台灣情（2005/11, 傳記）]]
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/62-e5-8f-b0-e7-be-8e-e7-94-9f-e6-b6-af-e4-b8-83-e5-8d-81-e5-b9-b4-e6-9e-97-e9-9d|TAH #62: 台美生涯七十年（2006/10, 傳記）]]
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories130|TAH #130: 大難不死必有後福（2014）]]
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys47|Our Journeys #47: NATPA 首度回台召開年會的經緯和歷史意義（2014/10）]]
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys164|TAH #164: 我們這一代的台美人（2015/08）]]
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/publications1046|TAH #1046: 台美人生命腳跡（2016/11, 自傳合集, with 黃東昇、劉光道、陳天令、柯耀宗 et al.）]]
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories559|TAH #559: 八十歲的人生回顧（2017/07）]]
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories577|TAH #577: 我的教學、研究、行醫和著作的人生經歷（2017/09）]]
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/publications1129|TAH #1129: 見證胎兒醫學（2010/12）]]
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/my-stories-790|TAH #790: 85歲我的人生回顧（2021/04）]]

Deepen-x 2026-10-10 (corpus pass)

  • Fresh ZH+EN grep across all five corpus dirs: 22 hits, 14 previously-unlinked works now absorbed above (memoirs, autobiographies, NATPA founding record). Two of them — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys69|Our Journeys #69]] and [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys268|Our Journeys #268]] — carry first-party movement-organizing detail not present on the page before.
  • HOLD: wife-name conflict — the TAH Who’s Who table on this page gives Jane Shwu-Ching Hahn (韓淑清), but the photo caption in [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys33-eng|Our Journeys #33 (EN)]] reads “Dr. C.C. Lin & his wife, Se-Ching (世真)”, and his own memoir [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/my-stories-654|TAH #654: 懷念許世真]] memorializes a 許世真. Not auto-merged; both readings preserved pending confirmation.
  • No other date/age conflicts encountered.

Deepen-x 2026-10-11 (corpus pass)

  • Re-grepped ZH+EN+initials across all five corpus dirs: 27 hits, all genuine hits already linked above — page verified saturated, no new material to absorb.
  • Name-collision guard: the grep hit [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whoswho1267|TAH #1267: C. C. Lin 林振昌（09/2016）]] matches the initials “C. C. Lin” but is a different person (林振昌, not 林靜竹) — do NOT link it here.
  • English NATPA roster in [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys69-eng|Our Journeys #69 (EN)]] confirms the 1980-02-16 sixteen-professor founding list (Chin-Chu Lin among them) — same fact as the ZH record already cited, no new detail.

Family

  • Wife: Jane Shwu-Ching Hahn (韓淑清) — see HOLD note above re: 世真 / Se-Ching in corpus captions
  • Daughter: Juliet Lin
  • Son: |Jim Lin 林存欣醫師 (his own vault page lists 林靜竹 as father; M.D., Univ. of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, 1991), John Lin

Vault Holdings

  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/9-prof-chin-chu-lin||TAH #9 encyclopedia: Prof. Chin-Chu Lin, M.D. 林靜竹教授]]
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-77-chin-chu-lin||TAH #77 encyclopedia: Prof. Chin-Chu Lin, M.D. 林靜竹教授]]
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/collection-of-prof-chin-chu-lin||TAH #23 encyclopedia: Collection of Prof. Chin-Chu Lin 林靜竹教授的收藏]]
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/120-prof-chin-chu-lin-e6-9e-97-e9-9d-9c-e7-ab-b9-e5-8d-9a-e5-a3-ab-first-certifi||TAH #120 encyclopedia: 林靜竹医师 博士]]

Sources

Deepen-x 2026-10-12 (corpus pass)

  • Re-grepped ZH+EN+surname+initials (林靜竹 / Chin-Chu Lin / Chin Chu Lin / 靜竹 / C.C. Lin) across all five corpus dirs: 25 hits, all already linked above — page verified saturated, no new material to absorb.
  • Name-collision guard (2nd instance): grep hit Sharing Spaces: Taiwanese Indigenous Art… matches “C. C. Lin” but refers to Kristin C. C. Lin, chair of the Shung Ye Museum — a different person; do NOT link here.

Deepen 2026-09-14 (vault-only)

  • Re-checked the four TAH encyclopedia records held in the vault (#9, #77, #23 收藏, #120 first-certificate record) and the son’s page |Jim Lin 林存欣醫師 — every wikilink target verified present on disk; no new absorbable biography beyond the tables and timeline above.
  • Geography-context page in the vault corpus: |Taiwanese Association of America the Greater Chicago (University of Chicago 1976–2001 years; context only, no documented membership).

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