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.
Portrait by Underwood & Underwood
Dewey at the University of Chicago in 1902
Dewey and Hu Shih, c. 1938–1942
Dewey in China in 1920
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
John Dewey
…might come back." During his trip to Japan, Dewey was invited by Peking University to visit China, probably at the behest of his former students, Hu Shih and Chiang Monlin. Dewey and his wife Alice arrived in Shanghai on April 30, 1919, just days before student demonstrators took to the streets of Peking…
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