Hu Shih Quotes
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. The Chinese Renaissance. University of Chicago Press, 1934, p. 78.
The following year India was partitioned and millions of Hindus were slaughtered by Muslims and vice-a-versa.
Pandita Indrani Rampersad. She is the first Hindu woman who ever became a pundit—a religious expert who guides Hindus. She is also a professor in the United States.
Buddhists believe in reincarnation and by donating money they are attempting to secure a higher (and avoid a lower) station for themselves in the next life.
Shahin’s empire which he conquered for Khosrow II comprised all of the Middle East into parts of India. The Byzantine Roman Empire controlled everything from Constantinople to the West. They were the two “superpowers” of the day. Shahin was attacking various Byzantine holdings outside of the city of Constantinople. Even before Islam, religion was a major conflict between East and West.
Constantine the Great. Roman Emperors saw Christians as their most dangerous foes. However, Constantine, with this edict, enabled Christianity to thrive and grow legally in the Western world. Later Constantine himself converted to Christianity. This edict ceased the vicious Roman persecution that Christians had endured.
Robertson does not mention the fact that Hindus are the majority of the world’s largest democracy—India. Freedom thrives there and political equality is extensive. However, economic equality is sadly lacking as in the Untied States. However, India is more unequal.
Hu Shih, also known as Hu Suh in early references, was a Chinese philosopher, essayist and diplomat. 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. 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. He had a wide range of interests such as literature, philosophy, history, textual criticism, and pedagogy. He was also an influential redology scholar and held the famous Jiaxu manuscript (甲戌本; Jiǎxū běn) for many years until his death.
