Word: shih
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These words pointed clearly to Dr. Hu Shih, one of China's greatest educators, who is not a member of the Kuomintang and who has recently advocated uncompromising resistance to Communism. Chiang would probably stay on as head of the army and perhaps as Premier. But he clearly meant to guide the Chinese people away from their reliance on one-man leadership. Said he: "Whoever is President I will support with all my heart and all my strength. I will prove to the people that I am a loyal public servant...
When a storm swamped a rowboat on Cayuga Lake in 1916, a young Cornell man named Hu Shih got a ducking. To memorialize the immersion, a soaking compatriot composed a poem in literary Chinese. Its mannered, delicate style seemed so ill-suited to the topic that young Hu dashed off some lustier lines of his own. They were written in Pai Hua (the living speech) instead of Wen Li (the literary language), and they were good. Until Hu did it, no one believed that serious literature could be made from, Pai Hua, as Dante had from Italian...
Returning to China, a Peking University professor at 26, Hu started a literary reform that crackled through China like fire through a paper house. Today Pai Hua is used in China's schools, books and some newspapers (though not government documents). All China reveres Hu Shih as the "Young Sage" (the old one: Confucius...
...select universities. To presidents of the 138 lesser colleges, Hu's plan looks like merger or death. It has already been opposed by officials of Chiang Kai-shek's Ministry of Education, who want more, not fewer, colleges for China's 400 million people. Says Hu Shih: "I am basically a historian, and as a historian I do not expect miracles...
Washington would attach. Liberal, scholarly Hu Shih took a parable from Mencius : "Here are a small basket of rice and a bowl of soup, and the case is one in which the getting of them will preserve life and the want of them will be death. [Yet] if they are offered with insulting voice, even a tramp will not receive them . . . even a beggar will not stoop to take them." Still other Chinese, not quite sure what the U.S. might eventually ladle out, hoped for more than drops. Editorialized Shanghai's China Press last week: "China's needs...