Lin actively engaged in public affairs and was elected as a city council member in Tainan City in the simulated Taiwan State and Municipal Council Elections organized by the Taiwan New People Newspaper in 1931.
She recorded songs such as A Red Egg and Moonlit Night Sorrow, which was adapted from Taiwanese indigenous music.
[2] She learned piano and vocal techniques from Margaret Mellis Gauld and an Italian musician of Tainan Theological College and Seminary.
She later went to Japan to study music performance techniques under Japanese vocal artist Toshiko Sekiya.
[8][9] She was involved in the preparation and promotion of the Nanxing (Southern Stars) Song and Dance Troupe and conducted field research on indigenous music in Taiwan's mountainous areas.