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Lin Haiyin

Taiwanese writer

Not to be confused with Lin Haiyun.

In this article, the surname is Lin.

Lin Haiyin
Native name	林海音
Born	18 March 1918 Osaka, Japan
Died	1 December 2001(2001-12-01) (aged 83) Taipei, Taiwan
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	Republic of China
Alma mater	News and Broadcast Institute

Lin Haiyin (Chinese: 林海音; pinyin: Lín Hǎiyīn; born Lin Hanying; 18 March 1918 – 1 December 2001) was a Taiwanese writer and editor from a family in Miaoli County, Taiwan. She was born in Osaka, Japan, and lived in New Taipei City's Panchiao district until the age of four before relocating to Beijing. Lin worked as a journalist and editor for the World Journal (世界日報) in Beijing before moving back to Taiwan with her family in 1948. In Taiwan, she served as an editor for the Mandarin Daily News (國語日報) and as the editor of the United Daily News (聯合報) supplement. She is best known for her 1960 book Memories of Peking: South Side Stories (城南舊事), a novelistic tribute to her childhood reminiscences of Beijing.

Early life and education

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Lin was born in Osaka, Japan, where her father (of Toufen, Miaoli County origin) worked as a merchant.^[1] Lin's parents moved back to Taiwan briefly, then

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By Nancy T. Lu

Do you ever stop to look and listen to the river – rippling, flowing, rushing, angrily swelling, dangerously overflowing or even dying? Do you ever heed what it is trying to say?

Do you still have to be awakened to see and hear the message of the river? Or does it have to take disastrous floods like those brought by typhoon Morakot on August 8, 2009, to make you notice the crying and wailing of Mother Nature?

“Listening to the River” – an 80-minute production of the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre – raises these questions and more.

Lin Hwai-min, artistic director and choreographer of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, has lived next to the Tamshui River longer than two decades. Often away on long tours, he feels he is home at last only when he sees the all-too-familiar river once more.

But particularly on an unforgettable meditation trip to Bodhgaya, famous as the place in India where the Buddha attained enlightenment, Lin looked out from his balcony one day and saw men and women bathing in the River Niranjana (now called Falgu).

That night, Lin was roused from sleep by the commotion outside. When he got up to check what was going on, he caught sight of mourners throwing ashes of cremated bodies into the river, rendering the water murky