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During his first 20 years as a teacher, mostly at Peking National University, Hu Shih sharply attacked the one-party government of Chiang Kaishek, but when the choice had to be made between the Chinese Communists and the Nationalists, the philosopher and the Generalissimo were reconciled. In debate at the United Nations and on lecture platforms everywhere, Hu Shih spoke boldly and forcefully against Red tyranny. Frequent ill health inclined Hu Shih to nine years of scholarly retirement in New York and Princeton, but in 1958 he again returned to Formosa to serve as president of the Academia Sinica, Nationalist...
While serving as China's wartime Ambassador to the U.S. (1938-1942), Scholar-Philosopher, Dr. Hu Shih received $60,000 from his hard-pressed government to use for propaganda. He returned the money with the remark: "My speeches are sufficient propaganda and do not cost you anything...
Independence of mind and forthright expression marked the course of his life. Born in Shanghai, his father was a geographer, his mother an illiterate peasant (who chose his wife for him when he was eleven). Hu Shih was an intellectual prodigy, won a Boxer Indemnity scholarship to Cornell (where he was called "Doc"). He went on to study at Columbia under the pragmatic philosopher John Dewey and became one of his outstanding disciples. Hu Shih once said that philosophy was his profession, literature his entertainment, politics his obligation. Literature was much more than just enjoyment: on his return to China...
...exact population of China is unknown. In 1948, during the civil war, the Nationalist government estimated, on the basis of a partial census, that there were 460 million mainland Chinese. Today the Nationalists on Formosa insist that mainland population has dropped to 450 million. Nationalist Historian Hu Shih, under a complex and interpretive system, insists that there are only 300 million. In 1953 the Chinese Communists held a nationwide census and came up with a figure of 582.6 million, and now estimate a population of 670-680 million. The latest figures published by the U.S. Census Bureau are restricted...
...found who does not believe that the U.S. is far ahead of the Russians in both quantity and quality of nuclear explosives. It is agreed, also, that both countries have more than enough weapons on the shelf to devastate each other-and to kill much of the hu man race as well. A great deal of the destruction would be the result of radio -active fallout...