Hu Shih Quotes
Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights.
Hu, Shih. The Chinese Renaissance. University of Chicago Press, 1934, p. 95.
to a carriage on wheels At the time Jefferson had never seen a train.
The changes he wrought were many and profound and were rejected years later when his party was voted out of office so markedly that the only retained 2 seats in the parliament and lost their status as an official Canadian party.
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.
