For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples.

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.