1990. Тайвань. Спецлист «100-летие со дня рождения Ху Ши, китайского реформатора»

(//), 1990 The 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Hu Shih, Written Chinese Reformer, 1891-1962

100th Birthday of Hu Shih, writer, President of the National Peking University and the Academia Sinica in Taiwan.

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While many of the intellectuals in
the early Republican China era went to the
U.S.S.R. for education, Hu Shih was
influenced by years at Cornell and
Columbia (Ph.D. 1917) where he trained
under the philosopher John Dewey. Hu
returned to China to a post at Peita and
became an advocate of using bai-hua
vernacular speech as the basis for literary
writing instead of wen-yen, the classical
written style. His teacher Dewey came to
China and spent two years, from 1919-21,
traveling and lecturing (often with Hu Shih
interpreting) and rousing wide interest in
his ideas on education and on pragmatism.
Hu was an early adversary of the
Kuomintang, saying that it had maintained
a «reactionary» attitude towards the
accomplishments of the New Culture
Movement. But in 1938 he accepted an
appointment as Ambassador to the United
States. Without explanation he was
removed from that post in 1942. In later
years he served in non-political posts: for
example, he was appointed president of
Academia Sinica in 1958. During his last
years, he was lionized by the United States
but at home often received harsh criticism
for his embracing the KMT cause too
uncritically.
The cartoon to the left shows Hu
in front of a blackboard with «Education»
written on it. To the left the cartoonist
scolds Hu for abandoning his liberal causes
in favor of service to the KMT. He
died in Taiwan in 1962 not long
after the picture at the bottom left
was taken.