Lin Dui (born 1906) was a native of Longjingzhuang, Dajia County, Taichung Prefecture during the Japanese colonial period.
After dropping out of school, Lin Dui received the help of Chiang Wei-shui, an alumnus of Beijing Normal University, and went to Tokyo to study in March 1925.
After his arrest in the April 16th Incident, Lin Dui once confessed to the Japanese side his past left-leaning and the reasons for joining the Communist Party.
[3] He mentioned that while he was studying at the Junior High School of Nihon University in 1926, he had been influenced by his fellow residents Lin Chaozong and Lin Tianjin, and he began to Become interested in socialism, worship Lenin, long for communist society, discuss socialist issues together, read the works of Japanese socialists Hitoshi Yamakawa, Sakai Toshihiko and others, as well as "Historical Materialism" and "Proletarian News" (the organ of the Japanese Communist Party) ) and other left-wing publications.
At the end of 1928, Lin Dui, Xiao Laifu, Huang Zongyao, He Huoyan, Chen Quansheng, Lin Sang, Su Xin and Chen Laiwang met three times at the site of the "Taiwan Popular Times" under the Tokyo Cultural Association to discuss the organization's guiding line and activity content, and made a Several important decisions were made.
Lu Xiuyi, a scholar who wrote the history of the Communist Party of Taiwan, listed six points in his book: 1.
In February 1929, he received the Communist Party membership card by mail, and began to circulate "Red Flag" from Chen Laiwang and others.
However, Lin Dui refused to serve as secretary of the Central Committee of the Peasants' Union and returned to Tokyo in January 1929.
He negotiated with Ye Qiumu, Lai Tongyao and others to continue the past movement and wanted to form another national struggle group mainly composed of Taiwanese students in Tokyo.
After Lin Dui read this collection of poems and essays, he didn't know whether he was moved by the Socialism ideas contained in the collection of poems or essays, or out of the usual rational calculations of political and business figures - he felt that the author's political ideology was similar to his own, so he began to correspond with Wang Baiyuan.
[9] On July 31 of the same year, he met with [10] Wang Baiyuan, Wu Kunhuang and others to discuss the issue of the association's publication NEWS and fund raising issues; but on September 1 of the same year, Ye Qiu Mu, a member of the association, was reported for participating in an anti-imperialist demonstration.
Although Wang Baiyuan, Lin Dui, Zhang Wenhuan and others organized a literary and art association, it was continued through the efforts of others.
After Zhang Wenhuan, Wu Kunhuang and others were released, they jointly established a legal and moderate literary and art association with other young people in Japan.
However, Lin Dui was unable to participate in the group "Taiwan Art Research Association" due to his arrest; he was imprisoned again on November 4, 1932, and then disappeared.
[11] Lin Dui later ran a lumber shop in the Wuquan West Road area of Taichung City, and helped his classmate Zhou Zonghe, who had been dropped out of Taipei Normal University in his early years, arrange a residence.