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...news on Formosa last week was a visiting celebrity: Dr. Hu Shih, China's most respected scholar, who was concluding his first visit to Formosa since that strategic island became the Nationalist refuge and stronghold. Scholar Hu (who has been leading the scholarly life in New York and Princeton) received a flattering and festive welcome, dined with Chiang Kai-shek and lectured to eager crowds...
Gest sold his collection in 1937 to the Institute for Advanced Study, but he and Gillis kept an advisory interest in it until both died in 1948. Their library is now under the supervision of Chinese Scholar Hu Shih, onetime Chinese Ambassador to the U.S. and dean of National Peking University, who shows research scholars how to use its treasures. Dr. Hu will not guess at the library's monetary or cultural value. When asked, he simply says...
...East came a whole shelf of books ranging from an anthology of Chinese poetry (The White Pony] to a biography, Mao Tse-tung: Ruler of Red China. At least one well-informed reviewer attacked the Mao book for its disdain of humdrum fact. Wrote scholarly Dr. Hu Shih, onetime Chinese Ambassador to the U.S.: "Empty padding . . . falsified history." Such adverse judgments are among the hazards a one-man writing factory runs. Payne works admittedly from what is at hand in public libraries, has an uncommon knack for converting a shelf of books on a given subject into a book...
These meetings brought leading speakers to Cambridge including Karl T. Compton, former president of M.I.T., Jacques Maritain and Hu Shih, both of Princeton, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge '24, and Manly Fleischmann '29, director of the Defense Production Administration...
These meetings brought leading speakers to Cambridge including Karl T. Compton, former president of M.I.T., Jacques Maritain and Hu Shih, both of Princeton, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge '24, and Manly Fleischmann '29, director of the Defense Production Administration...