Lin Haiyin

Lin Haiyin, also named Amy Lin, was a Chinese writer and editor from a family in Miaoli County, Taiwan Province, Republic of China. 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 in Beijing before moving back to Taiwan with her family in 1948. In Taiwan, she served as an editor for the Mandarin Daily News and as the editor of the United Daily News supplement. She is best known for her 1960 book Memories of Peking: South Side Stories, a novelistic tribute to her childhood reminiscences of Beijing.