Word: hued
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sort of treason?the treason of destructively criticizing a dead man's ideals?was charged last week against that august intellectual aristocrat Dr. Hu Shih. famed as "the foremost Chinese modern thinker," founder of the Chinese Literary Renaissance, first Chinese to write poetry in the spoken language of the people, graduate of Cornell (B. A.) and Columbia...
Fear of being mobbed by rowdy agents of the Nationalist Government with which he is out of sympathy, has long since made patrician Scholar Hu extremely careful of his delicate, parchment-like skin. For months he has spent his studious nights in the well guarded foreign quarter of Shanghai, venturing out only by day to the suburb of Woosung where he is president of a private college called the China National Institute. Recently, however, Dr. Hu, daring much, contributed to the leading Chinese intellectual review, the monthly Crescent Moon, three articles flaying the Nationalist Government. Last week Nationalist's militaristic...
Last week the local Shanghai Executive Committee of the party met to consider Scholar Hu's offense and recommend his punishment to the supreme Central Executive Committee in Nanking, the Nationalist capital...
...notice was taken of Dr. Hu's criticism of living Chinese statesmen. For example, he had recalled in Crescent Moon that President Chiang Kaishek, after conquering all China, has not yet kept his promise to give Chinese citizens a Bill of Rights. That telling criticism was ignored. Instead the Shanghai Committee concentrated on the fact that erudite Hu Shih had pointed out what seemed to him certain deficiencies and puerilities in the writings of the late famed Dr. Sun Yat sen, father of the Nationalist Government, sainted founder of the Party, who now reposes and is daily adored...
...word of a saint doubted!?that was something on which the Committee could vote unanimously and instantaneously with a clear conscience. "We recommend Dr. Hu for severe punishment," read their resolution. "We petition the Central Executive Committee to effect his arrest for having publicly insulted the late leader of the party, Sun Yat sen, and destructively criticized his ideals, which must be considered as an act of treason against the government and the people...