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    Hu Shih

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    It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood. ↗


    — Hu Shih

    #comparison #contact #critically #cultural #elements

    It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be. ↗


    — Hu Shih

    #chinese #christian #desire #even #hindus

    Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people. ↗


    — Hu Shih

    #chief concern #chinese #chinese people #concern #confucianism

    No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India. ↗


    — Hu Shih

    #europe #even #experience #history #incapable

    The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development. ↗


    — Hu Shih

    #chinese people #development #kinds #people #religious

    The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture. ↗


    — Hu Shih

    #chinese #christian #convince #could #culture






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    During his tenure there he received support from Chen Duxiu editor of the influential journal New Youth quickly gaining much attention and influence. Hu Shih (17 December 1891 – 24 February 1962) was a Chinese philosopher essayist and diplomat. He also had a number of other noms de plume.

    Hu is widely recognized today as a key contributor to Chinese liberalism and language reform in his advocacy for the use of written vernacular Chinese. Hu Shih (17 December 1891 – 24 February 1962) was a Chinese philosopher essayist and diplomat. He was influential in the May Fourth Movement one of the leaders of China's New Culture Movement was a president of Peking University and in 1939 was nominated for a Nobel Prize in literature.

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