Adet Lin

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

The oldest daughter of Lin Yutang, she was born in Amoy and came to the United States at the age of thirteen. 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.

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

Lin committed suicide in Taipei in 1971.

Selected works

• The Milky Way and Other Chinese Folk Tales (1961)
• Flower Shadows, translation of Tang dynasty poetry (1970)