Hu Shih
Americannoun
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By 1936, Lee’s close friend Hu Shih, a Chinese intellectual, was asking her what had become of her dreams.
From New York Times
The model for a bust of a “man from eastern China” was Dr. Hu Shih, the diplomat and scholar who helped establish the modern Chinese script.
From New York Times
He mentions Prof Hu Shih - who studied at Columbia 100 years ago and then returned to Peking University - as a "standard bearer" for Chinese liberalism.
From BBC
The institute was founded in 1926 by a group of Chinese and American educators, including John Dewey and Hu Shih, to foster a deeper understanding of China in the United States.
From New York Times
Frequent ill health inclined Hu Shih to nine years of scholarly retirement in New York and Princeton, but in 1958 he again returned to Formosa to serve as president of the Academia Sinica, Nationalist China's renowned research institute.
From Time Magazine Archive
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