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Often called "the foremost Chinese thinker of today" is Hu Shih, for nine years Professor of Philosophy at Peking University, and later Dean of the English Department, the first Chinese to write poetry in the spoken vernacular, vigorous editor for many a moon of the slightly radical Chinese weekly Endeavor, and frequently mentioned as likely to accept this portfolio or that in the Chinese Nationalist Government...
Docket number 48 is the Sargent Club (Shih, Wolf) versus the Bohlen Club (Kelly, Crawford). The meeting will take place at 40 Kirkland Street with H. H. Rapp 3L as chief justice...
...Shih, whose contribution to the symposium, is among the very best of the sixteen contributions, disclaims the spirituality of the Orient, often sweepingly exhibited as an ideal of a more untrammeled civilization, and asks "What spirituality is there in a civilization that tolerates such a terrible form of human slavery as the ricksha Coolie...
...clear the Occidental air of "yellow peril" the distinguished Chinese philosopher, Hu Shih, denies, startlingly, conclusively, that the Western machine-age man controlled, is "materialistic" while the Oriental hand-to-mouth, disease-ridden existence is "spiritual," and therefore potentially superior...
...that which Mr. Hoover now holds in the U. S. Tang Shao-yi was Managing Director of the Imperial Railways of North China in 1900, and shortly afterwards became High Commissioner of Customs under the patronage of the great Viceroy of Chihli and subsequent President of China Yuan Shih-kai. Before the advent of the republican regime, Tang Shao-yi was sent to Washington as special Ambassador of the Manchu Emperor. Later he served as Prime Minister of the Government at Peking and as Minister of Finance under the Cantonese Government. He saw his son-in-law, Dr. Wellington...