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Hu Shih

1891 - 1962

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

movement:  New Culture Movement, 尝试派
country of citizenship:  Taiwan, Republic of China, Qing dynasty
languages spoken, written or signed:  Chinese, English
educated at:  National University, Cornell University, Columbia University, Teachers College
occupation:  diplomat, journalist, university teacher, politician, writer, philosopher
award received:  honorary doctor of the University of Hong Kong, honorary doctor of Harvard University, honorary doctor of the University of Southern California, honorary doctorate from Columbia University, honorary doctor of the University of Chicago, honorary doctor of the Wesleyan University, honorary doctor of the Duke University, honorary doctor of the Bryn Mawr College, honorary doctor of the University of Pennsylvania, honorary doctor of the Clark University, Honorary doctorate from Brown University, honorary doctor of the Yale University, honorary doctor of the Union College, honorary doctor of the University of California, Berkeley, honorary doctor of the University of Vermont, honorary doctorate from the McGill University, honorary doctor of the Lake Forest College, honorary doctor of the Dickinson College, honorary doctor of the Middlebury College, Honorary doctorate from University of Toronto, honorary doctor of the Dartmouth College, honorary doctor of the Denison University, honorary doctor of State University of New York, honorary doctor of the Ohio State University, honorary doctor of the University of Rochester, honorary doctor of the Oberlin College, honorary doctor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, honorary doctor of the University of Toledo, honorary doctor of the Northeastern University, honorary doctorate from Princeton University, honorary doctor of the Bucknell University, Honorary doctor of the University of Oxford, honorary doctor of the Colgate University, honorary doctor of the Claremont Graduate University, honorary doctor of the University of Hawaii, Messenger Lectures
position held:  Representative of the Republic of China to the United States, member of the National Political Council, member of the National Assembly of the Republic of China, president
influenced by:  John Dewey

Hu Shih (Chinese: 胡適; 17 December 1891 – 24 February 1962), also known as Hu Suh in early references, was a Chinese diplomat, essayist and fiction writer, literary scholar, philosopher, and politician. Hu contributed to Chinese liberalism and language reform and advocated for the use of written vernacular Chinese. He participated in the May Fourth Movement and China's New Culture Movement. He was a president of Peking University. He had a wide range of interests such as literature, philosophy, history, textual criticism, and pedagogy. He was also a redology scholar. Hu was editor of the Free China Journal, which was shut down for criticizing Chiang Kai-shek. In 1919, he also criticized Li Dazhao. Hu advocated that the world adopt Western-style democracy. Moreover, Hu criticized Sun Yat-sen's claim that people are incapable of self-rule. Hu criticized the Nationalist government for betraying the ideal of Constitutionalism in The Outline of National Reconstruction.Hu wrote many essays attacking communism as a whole, including the political legitimacy of Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party. Specifically, Hu said that the autocratic dictatorship system of the CCP was "un-Chinese" and against history. In the 1950s, Mao and the Chinese Communist Party launched a campaign criticizing Hu Shih's thoughts. Mao and Chinese historians criticized Hu Shih as ''the earliest, the most persistent and most uncompromising enemy of Chinese Marxism and socialist thought.'' Source: Wikipedia (en)

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