Yin Lin

Yin Lin (1919 - 2015), was the fifth child, the youngest daughter of Jian-Zhong Lin. Yin loved music. In the years of her middle and high schools, she played piano for the hymn choir of her church where her father preached. In 1938 she was accepted into the medical school of Zhiguang University in Shanghai. That was the second year of II Sino-Japan War. After Yin started her medical school, she had to follow her school in 1939 to evacuate to a south-western mountainous area near Kuangming, where she joined her three brothers, Chao, Chan, Qi, and acquitted her future husband Yi-Xian Lin, who were all college students except Chao, a professor. She was transferred to Sun Yat-Sen University (now ZhongShan University) during that period. After medical school, Yin was mandatorily registered for the service of National Republican Army as a medical official for the ongoing war. After Japanese Army surrendered in late 1945, Yin married Yi-Xian Lin. After a few months after their marriage, she and her husband started working in The Forth Provincial Hospital of Guangdong in Jiangmen as a physician and a executive director respectively. Less than two years they were contacted by Anglican Diocese of Hongkong, the couple moved to Beihai, Guangxi in 1947, continuing practicing medicine and hospital management in the Puren Hospital (Universal Benevolence Hospital). They settled in Beihai for the next 45 years until her husband passed away in 1993. In the same year, Yin traveled to U.S. She joined her brother Chan in New York. Yin and her brother moved from New York to Washington DC in early 1995. After Chan passed away in 2010, Yin moved to Gainesville of Florida, living with her son Bai-Xi, being cared for the recovery of her stroke. In 2013, accompanied by his son, she traveled back to Beihai, China, where she was cared by her daughter and her elder son until her passing. Yin and her husband Yi-Xian Lin have one daughter Mei-Xi, two sons: Zhi-Xi and Bai-Xi. Yin was a popular physician in her more than 40 years' medical practice in Beihai area and beyond. The stories of her kindness and commitments to her patients were passed widely around among locals. Some of those stories were written in a published book ( in Chinese, Xuan Gen, by Liu Xi-Song, Tracing The Root - The One Hundred Years' History of Universal Benevolence, 2009), and in a documentary series (in Chinese: Bai Nian Pu Ren, One Hundred years' Universal Benevolence). Her stories were also told in the articles "The Early life of Yin Lin" and "Remembrance of My Aunt Yin Lin".