Adet Lin

Adet Lin
Adet Lin
Born	Lin Feng-ju; May 6, 1923; Amoy, Republic of China
Died	1971 (age 48); Taipei, Republic of China
Cause of death	Suicide
Nationality	American
Occupation	Novelist
Spouse(s)	Richard Biow
Parent(s)	Lin Yutang
Family	Milton Biow (father-in-law); Patricia Biow Broderick (sister-in-law); Matthew Broderick (nephew)

Adet Lin (Chinese: 林鳳如; pinyin: Lín Fèngrú; Wade–Giles: Lin Feng-ju; May 6, 1923 – 1971) was a Chinese-American novelist and translator. She also published under the name Tan Yun.[1] She was also known as Lin Rusi.[2]

Biography

The oldest daughter of Lin Yutang, she was born in Amoy and came to the United States at the age of thirteen.[1] With her sisters Tai-yi and Mei Mei, she published Our Family, an autobiographical work, in 1939. In 1940, with Tai-yi, she published Girl Rebel, a translation of the autobiography of Xie Bingying. The sisters published a second book, Dawn over Chungking, in 1941. After studying at Columbia University, she went on to work for the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China from 1943 to 1946. Afterwards, she returned to the United States and worked for the United States Information Agency and the Voice of America.[3]

She published her first novel Flame from the Rock in 1943; the book is set in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War.[4]

On May 1, 1946, she married Richard Biow, son of advertising executive Milton Biow.[5][6] Lin killed herself in Taipei in 1971.[2]

Selected works[4]

Our Family (1939), with Lin Tai-yi (Anor Lin)
Dawn over Chungking (1941), with Lin Tai-yi (Anor Lin) and Lin Mei Mei
Flame from the Rock (1943), under pseudonym Tan Yun
The Milky Way and Other Chinese Folk Tales (1961)
Flower Shadows, translation of Tang dynasty poetry (1970)

References

Fister, Barbara (1995). Third World Women's Literatures: A Dictionary and Guide to Materials in English. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 183–84. ISBN 0313289883.
Qian, Suoqiao (2011). Liberal Cosmopolitan: Lin Yutang and Middling Chinese Modernity. p. 252. ISBN 9004192131.
Xu, Wenying (2012). Historical Dictionary of Asian American Literature and Theater. pp. 166–67. ISBN 081087394X.
Nelson, Emmanuel Sampath (2000). Asian American Novelists: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 204–06. ISBN 0313309116.
Qian, Suoqiao (October 20, 2017). Lin Yutang and China’s Search for Modern Rebirth. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 396. ISBN 9811046565.
"Adet Lin, 23, daughter of Chinese author Lin Yutang, and her husband, Richard M. Biow, 26, are shown in their apartment in Charlestown, Mass., after their marriage was revealed by the brides father who announced they had eloped". Mount Carmel Item. May 6, 1946.

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[fister-1] Fister, Barbara (1995). Third World Women's Literatures: A Dictionary and Guide to Materials in English. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 183–84. ISBN 0313289883.

[qian-2] Qian, Suoqiao (2011). Liberal Cosmopolitan: Lin Yutang and Middling Chinese Modernity. p. 252. ISBN 9004192131.

[3] Xu, Wenying (2012). Historical Dictionary of Asian American Literature and Theater. pp. 166–67. ISBN 081087394X.

[nelson-4] Nelson, Emmanuel Sampath (2000). Asian American Novelists: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 204–06. ISBN 0313309116.

[5] Qian, Suoqiao (October 20, 2017). Lin Yutang and China’s Search for Modern Rebirth. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 396. ISBN 9811046565.

[6] "Adet Lin, 23, daughter of Chinese author Lin Yutang, and her husband, Richard M. Biow, 26, are shown in their apartment in Charlestown, Mass., after their marriage was revealed by the brides father who announced they had eloped". Mount Carmel Item. May 6, 1946.