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Music for Cows. One man whose liberalism and incorruptibility was accepted by all non-Communist Americans in China was Dr. Hu Shih, president of the University of Peking and former Ambassador to the U.S. Last week Dr. Hu Shih said of the U.S.: "Don't they see there's a fire raging here, a fire they helped start?" The liberal president of the Legislative Yuan in Nanking, Sun Fo, scoffed at the Wedemeyer suggestion that Chinese Communists show their devotion to China by laying down their arms. Said Sun: "It's like playing music before...
...writings include studies of the governments of France and Germany, and a recent standard Chinese political theory text, on which he collaborated with Dr. Wang Shih-chieh, Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs...
Americans can understand almost any Chinese leader more readily than they can understand Chen Li-fu. The two cultures come very close together in the persons of two great educators, U.S. Ambassador Leighton Stuart and Hu Shih, former Chinese Ambassador to the U.S. They stand in the middle of the bridge across the gulf. But it is not enough for some Americans to understand some Chinese. The bridge between the U.S. and China must extend all the way from such a thoroughly American mind as George Marshall's to such a completely Chinese mind as Chen's. Admittedly...
...Yale, he went to Europe for the Y.M.C.A. in World War I, was assigned to a labor battalion of 5,000 coolies. Part of his job was to write letters, for no ordinary Chinese could master the stilted literary language (Wen-li). Back in China, scholars like Dr. Hu Shih (later Ambassador to the U.S.) were starting to write in the simpler Pai-hua, or spoken language. Jimmy Yen reduced it to about 1,000 characters, and Basic Chinese was born...
...Among those later named: former Premier T. V. Soong, Foreign Minister Wang Shih-chieh, and the Mongolian Changchia Hutuketu-one of Lamaism's most important "Living Buddhas...