Word: hu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bright spot is Dr. Hu Shih, 68, philosopher, poet, historian, ex-diplomat, and China's most respected scholar. Anti-Communist Dr. Hu went off to live in the U.S. after the mainland collapse. But in 1957 the Nationalists persuaded him to head up the Academia Sinica, the nation's top research organization. His 100 scholars are now hard at work studying everything from the island's nine aborigine tribes to its 33-century collection of Chinese inscriptions. Last year Dr. Hu managed to double salaries for some professors, hopes to triple them this year. But his effort...
Self-Help. In Seattle last week Dr. Hu and his colleagues came not as beggars but as bearers of self-help ideas. They want to increase exchange of scholars, students and artists with the U.S.-and give Formosa's intellectuals something to stay home for. They propose new cooperative ventures with U.S. universities, from science to Oriental religion. They emphasize that the island itself is a unique classroom for studying the mainland. One idea: a center to collate information on Communist China for Western scholars...
Most important, the Chinese feel that Formosa must become a truly thriving outpost of intellectual freedom for all of Asia. Said Dr. Hu, as he summed up the opportunity: "I believe I am justified to conclude that the men now in control of the Chinese mainland are still afraid of the spirit of freedom, the spirit of independent thinking, the courage to doubt, and the spirit and method of evidential thinking I believe the tradition of the humanistic and rationalistic China has not been destroyed...