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Hu Shih

Philosopher, writer and politician

Hu Shih studied Philosophy at Columbia University under John Dewey, and initiated a language reform in China that would set off one of the most important transformations in the country’s modern history: the New Culture Movement. Amongst his many posts were China’s ambassador to the US, Chancellor of Peking University, and President of Academia Sinica, Taiwan. He is admired not only for his scholarly work and his role as a public intellectual, but for his personality: generous, tolerant, kind.

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