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 beginningbringchina share on social
The rise of the dramas in the thirteenth century, and the rise of the great novels in a later period, together with their frank glorification of love and the joys of life, may be called the Third Renaissance. Hu Shih callcenturydrama share on social
On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger. Hu Shih achievementbadlybasis share on social
The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development. Hu Shih chinesedevelopmentkind Change image and share on social
In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language. Hu Shih chinesecornellincident Change image and share on social
Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance. Hu Shih chinesehistoricallyperiod Change image and share on social
It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be. Hu Shih chinesechristiandesire Change image and share on social
Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic. Hu Shih agnosticconfuciushumanist Change image and share on social
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 beautycornerstonecultural share on social
The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture. Hu Shih chinachinesechristian Change image and share on social