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Hu Shih
Hu Shih
Chinese Philosopher
Born: Dec 17, 1891
Died: Feb 24, 1962
Chinese Culture Great Language Life People
Related authors: Confucius Han Fei Lao Tzu Mencius Sun Tzu Zhuangzi
India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border. Hu Shih
Single Soldier Border India Having Without Dominated Send China Centuries Across Conquered Ever Her
What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty. Hu Shih
Great Strange People Beauty Become Group Cornerstone Despised Sacred Environment Another Edifice Cultural May Different Grandeur Ridiculous Among Rejected
On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people. Hu Shih
People Writing Language Resolved All My Friends Classical Poems More Poetry Write Announced Vulgar July Friends Begin America So-Called Experiments Now Tongue
Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic. Hu Shih
Great Religion Simple First Important Philosopher Philosophers Our Further Ancient Purified Fact Factor Simplified Another Historical Very China Naturalism Agnostic Founder Second Early
But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious. Hu Shih
Wish Say Out Religious Entirely Point Wrong Chinese
For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples. Hu Shih
Strange People First Changes Tools Ways Unavoidable Brought Contact Vehicles New Days Goods Western Commerce Beginnings China Chinese Social Chinese People Social Changes Novel Early
Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists. Hu Shih
Today Thought Prominent Atheists Leaders Openly Practically China Agnostic Even
After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country. Hu Shih
Learning Culture People Language Country Young Contacts Began Intellectuals Establish After Chinese Chinese People Jesuits
Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance. Hu Shih
Had Renaissance Periods Been Historically Chinese Many
Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people. Hu Shih
Life People Society Through Concern Chief Chief Concern Human Chinese Chinese People Confucianism Human Society
No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India. Hu Shih
History Experience Say India Religious Religious Experience Student Judged Pious Chinese Incapable Standards Europe Even Medieval

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