1. Hu Shih was a Chinese academic, writer, and politician.
27 Facts About Hu Shih
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Hu Shih was a president of Peking University and Academia Sinica.
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Hu Shih is widely known for his high moral values and influential contribution to Chinese politics and academia.
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Hu Shih was born on 17 December 1891, in Shanghai to Hu Chuan, and his third wife Feng Shundi.
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Shortly before Hu Chuan's death in 1895, his wife Feng and the young Hu Shih left Taiwan for their ancestral home in Anhui.
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Hu Shih was a member and later a president of the Cosmopolitan Club, an international student organization.
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Hu Shih helped found Cornell's extensive library collections of East Asian books and materials.
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Hu Shih's Peking University colleague Wen Yuan-ning dubbed Hu a Philosophe for his humanistic interests and expertise.
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Hu Shih personally translated her speech delivered at Beijing National University which stressed the importance of birth control.
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Hu Shih was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1932 and the American Philosophical Society in 1936.
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Hu Shih was recalled in September 1942 and was replaced by Wei Tao-ming.
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Hu Shih was chief executive of the Free China Journal, which was eventually shut down for criticizing Chiang Kai-shek.
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Hu Shih died of a heart attack in Nankang, Taipei at the age of 70, and was entombed in Hu Shih Park, adjacent to the Academia Sinica campus.
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Selection 15 of the Putonghua Proficiency Test is a story about Hu Shih debating the merits of written vernacular Chinese over Literary Chinese.
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Hu Shih appreciated the universality of such a scientific approach because he believed that such a methodology transcends the boundary of culture and therefore can be applied anywhere, including China during his time.
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Hu Shih was not so interested in the content of Dewey's philosophy, caring rather about the method, the attitude, and the scientific spirit.
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Hu Shih described his own as experiential, inductive, verification-oriented, and evolutionary.
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Hu Shih brought the scientific method and the spirit of Skepticism into traditional Chinese textual study, laying the groundwork for contemporary studies of Chinese intellectual history.
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In 1919, Hu Shih published the first volume of An Outline History of Chinese Philosophy.
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Hu Shih firmly believed that the world as a whole was heading toward democracy, despite the changing political landscape.
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Hu Shih calls democracy "naive politics", a political system that can help cultivate those who participate in it.
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Hu Shih wrote that this is an unequal and illogical view of life, that there is no natural or moral law upholding such a practice, that chastity is a mutual value for both men and women, and that he vigorously opposes any legislation favoring traditional practices on chastity.
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Hu Shih held the Jiaxu manuscript for many years until his death.
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In 1920, Hu Shih published the collection of his poems Experiments.
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Hu Shih's prose included works like The Life of Mr Close Enough, a piece criticizing Chinese society which centers around the extremely common Chinese language phrase, which means something like "close enough" or "just about right":.
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Hu Shih was part of the Chinese language reform movement and used the vernacular style in writing articles.
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Furthermore, Hu Shih meant that China needed more new things.