He quickly decided after his arrival that he wanted to settle on the island, and after a brief trip back to the United States to graduate from Washington and Lee in 1991, he returned to Taiwan, this time to the Hsinchu family home of Lin Yi-ping, a good friend of his from Tunghai University.
[3] As a result, to complete his naturalization Locke was forced to travel to Hong Kong to attend to U.S. citizenship renunciation procedures at the U.S. consulate there.
[5] Some time later, the Taiwanese government finally issued him a travel document to enable him to return to Taiwan and to the home of his adoptive family, with his new name: Lin Dao-ming.
[1] Like most young men in Taiwan, Lin was not looking forward to military service, but he found to his surprise that it was the environment where he was "most accepted as a regular member of the community".
[2] As he described it, for the first few days his fellow recruits barely paid attention to the fact that he was of foreign origin, and the shared hardship of harsh conditions and verbal abuse from drill instructors quickly helped to build bonds between him and his colleagues.
[1] After returning to civilian life, Lin lived another stint in his former country, the United States, as an international student, attending further studies at the New York Film Academy beginning in 1999.
[12] In addition to leading Burn My Eye workshops in various places around the world, he has been teaching a course on Street Photography [13] at Zhongzheng Community College in Taipei since 2015.