Past ACCFs

Professor Emeritus of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Lin Yu-sheng, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2004- ). Born in 1934 at Shenyang, China. Attended the Elecmentary School of the Beijing Normal High School, 1941-47, the Middle School of National Normal University, Beijing, 1947-48. B.A. in history, National Taiwan University, 1958. Ph.D. in social thought, University of Chicago, 1970. Post-doctoral Fellow in Asian studies, Harvard University, 1969-70. Assistant Professor—Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1970-2004.

Elected to Membership, Academia Sinica, Taipei (1994- ), Honorary Professor, The Chinese Academy of Art, Hangzhou (2002- ). Author of The Crisis of Chinese Consciousness: Radical Antitraditionalism in the May Fourth Era (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1979; Chinese tr. 1986, 1988, Japanese tr. 1989, Korean tr. 1990); Sixiang yu renwu (Thought and Personalities) (Taipei, 1983, 2001; mainland Chinese edition, Zhongguo Chuantong di chuangzaoxing zhuanhua [The Creative Transformation of Chinese Tradition, Beijing: Sanlian shudian, 1988, expanded edition, forthcoming 2007], Zhengzhi zhixu yu duoyuan shehui (Political Order and Pluralistic Society) (Taipei: Linking Publisher Co., 1989, 2001), Relie yu lengjing (Passion and Calmness) (Shanghai: Shanghai wenyi chubanshe, 1998), Yin Hai-kuang ‧Lin Yu-sheng shuxinlu (The Correspondence between Yin Hai-kuang and Lin Yu-sheng, joint author) (Taipei: Yuanliu, 1984; Shanghai: Yuandong, 1994) etc.