Hu Shi ⁽²⁾

After Mr. Hu Shi died, Chiang Kai-shek sent him this elegiac couplet: In memory of the late Mr. Shizhi A model of old morality within the new culture A paragon of new thought within the old ethics Respectfully mourned by Zhongzheng This couplet is the…

Among all the gentlemen who wrote intellectual history in the Republican era, I like Hu Shi best. This thinker, brimming with the spirit of the scholar, had both a naive, simple side and a broad-minded, generous side. He dared to criticize, yet could modestly accept…