According to property records, the Lins then moved several times in the
1980s as their careers developed, with stops in South Florida as well as
Northern and Southern California. They bought a house in Ranchos Palos
Verdes, a suburb of Los Angeles, in 1985, and Jeremy Lin’s older brother,
Josh, was born in 1987. Jeremy was born a year and a half later.
For the first four years of Jeremy’s life, his parents worked continually
— Gie-Ming as an electronics engineer and Shirley as an engineer for
airports, specializing in ticket dispensers — and Gie-Ming’s mother, Lin
Chu A Muen, spent 11 months a year in the United States to help raise the
children.
“Jeremy’s mother would go on business trips for a whole week, and I would
cook Taiwanese dishes for him the whole time,” Jeremy’s grandmother
recalled during a recent interview in Taipei.
