Yin Haiguang

Yin Haiguang (; 5 December 1919 – 16 September 1969) was a Chinese author, educator and philosopher.

Biography Yin was born to missionary parents in Huanggang, Hubei, in December 1919 and was raised in Wuchang.

In 1954, Yin went to Harvard University as a visiting scholar and returned to Taiwan the year after. He believed that liberalism failed in China because liberalism provided no solutions to the country's national difficulties and because Chinese liberals themselves misconstrued the strains of Western thought from which they drew inspiration. Yin commented that Chinese liberals had "a premature birth marked by postnatal disorders."

In 1969, Yin died of gastric cancer when he was 49.

Since 2003, the house in which he lived in Taipei, near Taiwan National University, has been listed as a historic landmark and can be visited by the public.

Works The Complete Works of Yin Haiguang

Translation The Road to Serfdom (Friedrich Hayek)

Personal life In October 1953, Yin married Xia Junlu (; d. 2013), he had a daughter Yin Wenli (; b. March 1956). His daughter and son-in-law now live in the United States.