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Hu Shih was a Chinese academic, writer, diplomat, and politician. Hu contributed to Chinese liberalism and language reform, and was a leading advocate for the use of written vernacular Chinese. He participated in the May Fourth Movement and China's New Culture Movement. He was a president of Peking University and Academia Sinica.
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culture · Chinese academic, writer and politician (1891–1962) · diplomat · journalist · university teacher · politician · writer · philosopher · scholar · also Hu Shih, Hu Shi, Shih
Born 17 December 1891 · Died 24 February 1962 · Q47667
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“The desire for uniformity leads to suppression of individual initiative, to the dwarfing of personality and creative effort, to intolerance, oppression, and slavery, and, worst of all, to intellectual dishonesty and moral hypocrisy.”
“A dead language can never produce a living literature.”
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Published “The empirical mode decomposition and the Hilbert spectrum for nonlinear and non-stationary time series analysis” in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences — cited 19,858 times.
Died 1962-02-24.
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Hawaii (1959).
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Became the third president of the Academia Sinica in Taipei, a post he retained until his death
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Claremont Graduate University (1950).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Colgate University (1949).
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Awarded Messenger Lectures (1945).
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Awarded Honorary doctor of the University of Oxford (1945).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Bucknell University (1943).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Northeastern University (1942).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Dartmouth College (1942).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Denison University (1942).
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Awarded honorary doctor of State University of New York (1942).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Ohio State University (1942).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Rochester (1942).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Oberlin College (1942).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1942).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Toledo (1942).
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Awarded honorary doctorate from Princeton University (1942).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Middlebury College (1941).
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Awarded Honorary doctorate from University of Toronto (1941).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Dickinson College (1941).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Lake Forest College (1941).
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Awarded honorary doctorate from the McGill University (1941).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Vermont (1941).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of California, Berkeley (1941).
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Career landmark: president (1941–1946).
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Awarded honorary doctor of Yale University (1940).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Union College (1940).
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Awarded honorary doctorate from Brown University (1940).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Wesleyan University (1940).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Duke University (1940).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Bryn Mawr College (1940).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Pennsylvania (1940).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Clark University (1940).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Chicago (1939).
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Awarded honorary doctorate from Columbia University (1939).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Southern California (1936).
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Awarded honorary doctor of Harvard University (1936).
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“Rather than sending soldiers, India sent a few missionaries to conquer China culturally.”
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Hong Kong (1935).
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And the American Philosophical Society in 1936
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Hu along with Wen Yiduo, Chen Yuan, Liang Shih-chiu, and Xu Zhimo founded the monthly journal Crescent Moon, named after Tagore's prose verse
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Hu Shih published the collection of his poems Experiments (zh: 尝试集, chángshì jì)
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Criticized Li Dazhao and engaged in a heated debate regarding ideology and problem (問題與主義論戰)
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“In the last ten years, only deceased personalities like Song Jiaoren, Cai E, and Wu Luzhen have been able to maintain their great reputation. The true features of living personalities are soon detected. This is because the times change too quickly. If a living personality does not try his utmost, he falls behind and soon becomes”
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Hu Shih published the first volume of An Outline History of Chinese Philosophy
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Changed his major to philosophy and literature, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa
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His wife Feng and the young Hu Shih left Taiwan for their ancestral home in Anhui
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Where his wife and Hu Shih joined him in 1893
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Born 1891-12-17.
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