Li Ao
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Li Ao, also spelled Lee Ao, was a Taiwanese writer, politician, and public intellectual. He wrote more than 100 books, primarily on historical and political topics, and developed a reputation as a con
Li Ao at Fayuan Temple in Beijing in 2005
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
Li Ao
…firebrand. Li rose to prominence in the early 1960s through his articles in Wen Hsing (1957–1988), an intellectual Taiwanese magazine where he defended Hu Shih, criticized traditional Chinese culture, and advocated for complete Westernization, igniting a cultural debate over Chinese and Western ideologies…
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