Hu Shih and the Chinese Renaissance by Jerome Grieder

Hu Shih and the Chinese Renaissance: Liberalism in the Chinese Revolution, 1917-1937 by Jerome Grieder. (Harvard East Asian Series, 46). Very good condition. Firmly bound, no loose of missing pages. All pages are clean and unmarked.

Publisher: ‎Harvard University Press; 1970 first edition (February 5, 1970). Hardcover‎, dust jacket, 431 pages. ISBN 10: 0674412508 / ISBN 13: 9780674412507

Book overview

Hu Shih (1891-1962), a leading Chinese educator and scholar who received much of his education in the United States, was an important advocate of liberal political and social views in China during the 1920s and 1930s. A self-proclaimed disciple of John Dewey, under whom he had studied at Columbia, Hu was a tireless critic of intellectual dogmatism and a persistent advocate of "evolutionary" and pragmatic reform. Ultimately his position proved vulnerable to attacks from both the conservative traditionalist and the radical revolutionary extremes.