Lin Huiyin made a career in technology at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Lin Huiyin as Chinese architect and writer (1904-1955).
Lin Huiyin was born at Hangzhou in 1904. Her recorded nationality is People's Republic of China. She was educated at University of Pennsylvania School of Design and Yale School of Drama.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, national institutions, mass media and mass politics changed both the scale of a career and its risks.
Lin Huiyin is described as architect, poet and translator.
Her affiliations include Tsinghua University, National Southwestern Associated University and Northeastern University.
Among her principal works are Monument to the People's Heroes, A Pictorial History of Chinese Architecture and Smile, Ninety-nine Degrees, Don't Let Our Land be Lost Again!. The engineer's achievement usually disappears into infrastructure, which is the point.
Her recorded fields of work are poetry, architecture and history.
Working from People's Republic of China shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have her, the language the work first appeared in.
Death came in 1955, at 51. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.
Achievements
- Notable work: Monument to the People's Heroes
- Notable work: A Pictorial History of Chinese Architecture
- Notable work: Smile, Ninety-nine Degrees, Don't Let Our Land be Lost Again!
- Affiliated with Tsinghua University, National Southwestern Associated University and Northeastern University
- Educated at University of Pennsylvania School of Design and Yale School of Drama
- Worked as architect, poet and translator
