Hu Shih
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Hu Shih was a Chinese academic, writer, diplomat, and politician. Hu contributed to Chinese liberalism and language reform, and was a leading advocate for the use of written vernacular Chinese. He par
Hu in 1960
Hu Shih Hall at Cornell University
Hu Shih as pictured in The Most Recent Biographies of Chinese Dignitaries
Hu Shih (left) and Chiang Kai-shek at Academia Sinica, Taipei, April 1958
John Dewey
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John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer. He was one of the most prominent American scholars in the first half of the twentieth century.
Hu Shih
…undergraduate degree, he went to study philosophy at Teachers College, Columbia University, in New York City, where he was influenced by his professor, John Dewey, and started literary experiments. Hu became Dewey's translator and a lifelong advocate of pragmatic evolutionary change, helping Dewey in his 1919–1921…
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Dewey at the University of Chicago in 1902
Dewey and Hu Shih, c. 1938–1942
Dewey in China in 1920