Word: shih
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rumors have been set afloat to the effect that bandits were responsible for the collapse of dikes, but meantime Liu Shih. the Civil Governor of Honan [province] has openly dispatched a brigade of troops to the Lanfeng district...
...dozen Chinese, led by Philosopher Hu Shih...
...that they would not be idle. Japanese patrols spread through the native city, taking over Chinese police posts, searching houses for Chinese snipers. Before breakfast Col. Ibara, commander of the legation guard, led a squad into the house of China's best-known living philosopher, owl-eyed Hu Shih, cross-questioned him for over an hour...
...Laymen's Report on missions, currently discussed all over the Protestant world (TIME, Nov. 28), urges that Christianity be rooted in foreign soils. But Missionary Jones talked with Dr. Hu Shih, poet, philosopher, agnostic leader of China's "renaissance," who told him: "China has nothing worth preserving. . . . We must make a clean sweep and adopt Western culture and outlook." Says Dr. Jones: "I gasped...
...Shanghai I made a plaster head of Dr. Hu Shih, Chinese poet and philosopher, during the Japanese bombardment. Dr. Shih himself was in great danger as he was being sought by the Japanese. When troops began sacking the city I hid the head in the bathtub and my husband and I moved it out in a basket before it was dry. Two days later the hotel was sacked...