Choh-Ming Lin; Founder of Hong Kong’s Chinese University

Choh-Ming Lin, 79, a UC Berkeley economist who took a decade-long leave in 1963 to found the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Lin was a professor in the Haas School of Business at Berkeley from 1951 to 1963 and the first director of the university’s Center for Chinese Studies. He was asked to head a merger of three Chinese colleges in Hong Kong and was granted his leave. Born in Canton, he earned his doctoral degree at Berkeley and was the author of “Economic Development of Communist China” in 1959 and “The Statistical System of Communist China” in 1962. In Berkeley on Sunday of cancer.