Yin Haiguang Residence

The former home of Yīn Hǎiguāng (殷海光, 1919–1969), a philosopher and essayist from Hubei who became one of the more prominent liberal intellectuals in post-war Taiwan. A longtime professor in National Taiwan University’s philosophy department, he openly criticized the KMT government throughout the martial law period under the motto “better to die speaking than to live in silence” (寧鳴而死，不默而生), and was ultimately stripped of his teaching position before succumbing to stomach cancer at the age of 49. The residence is a Japanese colonial era faculty dwelling set within the NTU dormitory cluster along Wenzhou Street (溫州街); it retains much of its original layout and garden and has been preserved as a municipal monument since 2004.