You can shake hands with him and argue with him. I don't know. One night passed and people got old. Tang Degang can also be found in Hu Shili.
Degang's lone ranger spirit and lofty sentiments cannot but be admired. It was not easy for him to defend Mr. Hu, mainly after his death. What is even more rare is that he can neither conceal the facts, but also deal with some of Mr. Hu's flaws with forgiveness.
-Excerpts from two prefaces by Zhou Cezong and Xia Zhiqing.
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Hu Shi is a master of enlightenment who developed from "traditional China" to "modern China". He was the only thinker in modern China who didn't have a gun, but his thoughts and remarks were all the rage, and he could turn all beings upside down.
Mr Hu, an Anhui native, was born in Columbia University and became famous in Peking University. He has deep tenderness for these three backgrounds, old and caring.
Hu Shi's greatness lies in his non-greatness. What's really amazing about him is that he never panders to everyone.
Hu Shi's joy and anger are his true feelings. But very sincere people are often pedantic, stupid, stupid or stupid, and Mr. Hu is sincere and has high wisdom. Another commendable thing about Mr. Hu is that he doesn't smell of Taoism. His behavior is the highest standard of Confucius and Mencius' value.
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In fact, Mr. Hu's political remarks are quite vague in theory and practice. Even some "bold assumptions" that have not been carefully verified! Hu Shi's contribution to the history of democratic politics in China is not so much his academic "theory" and political "behavior" as his image of believing in liberalism and advocating democratic politics!
When people in China mention "democracy and freedom", they immediately think of "Hu Shi". Hu Shi's innocent smile seems to symbolize democracy and the legal system and the four freedoms, especially the freedom without terror. People who advocate dictatorship get cold feet when they hear Hu Shizhi's name; As soon as I met his "reactionary remarks" and "toxin thoughts", it was like being in the dust of atomic radiation, and I was too scared to escape!
Zhuge's death scared Zhong Da away. He shook his feather fan. It is really "a few words can pour a million teachers", so powerful!
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It should be noted that Hu Shi is the only true doctor among my hundreds of millions of Chinese descendants who has obtained 32 "doctor" degrees.
Mr. Hu is surprisingly slow in writing articles simply because he has to put pen to paper. He said: People think that when I write articles, Hu Shi always writes thousands of words. Actually, I am very slow in writing articles.
In addition, Hu Shi is versatile and has a wide range of interests. Before one topic was finished, he scrambled for another hot topic. One by one, none of them can finish.
Mr. Hu made this big mistake when he was studying at Columbia University. It stands to reason that he should have performed in philosophy at that time and finished reading this "doctor of philosophy". He didn't want to do this, but he left behind his crops and went to "catch fish and touch shrimp" with Chen Duxiu and Cai Yuanpei. When I was busy, I left Columbia's mess and went back to Peking University to be a professor. He became famous for a while, and the title "Written by Dr. Hu Shi" was printed on the cover of the first edition of the Outline of China's Philosophical History. In fact, he was only a "doctoral candidate" in the registration record of Columbia University at that time. Until 10 years later, 1927, when he went to new york again, Dewey Yu Chengcai, the tutor, was officially awarded the "Doctor of Philosophy" degree by the school after completing the formalities.
As a scholar with Mr. Hu's achievements, it is harmless for a doctor not to be a doctor. His position in China history alone is equivalent to that of Columbia University in American history.
Hu Shi always likes to say that "philosophy" is his profession, "history" is his training and "literature" is his entertainment.
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Hu Shizhi's most outstanding contribution in the cultural history of China should still be in literature. He is the first person to advocate "literary improvement" and "vernacular literature" in the past hundred years!
There is really no hero who is not created by the times, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign. "A thousand bones!" A revolutionary leader who enjoys an exclusive reputation, his great achievements are contributed by the efforts of many unknown heroes! Revolutionary heroes are like this, why not cultural heroes?
Mr. Hu's epoch-making works in his youth, such as The Improvement of Literature, were not originally written for New Youth magazine. Those articles were written by him for the quarterly report of students studying in the United States (Chinese version) edited by himself. He submitted two copies of the manuscript before sending it to New Youth. I am familiar with his first published manuscript, but no one pays attention to it. However, later published copies became popular and spread all over the country. From then on, Hu's satellite shone brightly and led all the way until he had champagne in his mouth and became immortal!
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Hu Shizhi's greatest contribution in the modern history of China lies in literature, and his greatest concern and interest in domestic academic and cultural circles also lies in literature.
This is evident in his usual habits of newspapers and periodicals in reading chinese.
Teacher Hu Shizhi is not reading the newspaper; He is "evaluating the composition" and "reading the paper". He criticizes like a teacher.
Mr. Hu said: Guo Moruo's early new poems are very good! He also told a story: once he praised Guo Moruo at a banquet. Guo heard it at another table and came to kiss Hu's face to thank him. Now that Hu has been buried, Guo is still writing his poems, but according to Hu Shi's standards, Guo Moruo's later poems are "very wrong"! If you meet an old friend underground, I'm afraid Hu Shizhi will refuse to kiss.
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Mr Hu Shizhi spent his whole life persuading people to write biographies and autobiographies. He believes that not only great people should write, but also small people should write, because this is the best way for ordinary people to preserve contemporary historical materials and the responsibility of intellectuals to culture.
To write a biography of a hero, we must first understand the social background in which the hero grew up. If the biographer "isolates" the hero from the society, the hero will no longer be alive, but just a "wax figure" in the wax museum.
Mr. Yi Zhi's weakness in historiography lies in his old man's "choking on food" and overemphasizing "methodology" while ignoring the "learning" itself studied by this "method". If a historian can't figure out the circle of "evidence", then the scope of his study of things is very narrow. In his later years, he worked under Zhu for more than ten years, just like Princess Tiejing said, "It is idle to beat children on cloudy days", so he retired with nothing to get rid of his old age!
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In all kinds of cultural movements in modern China, Mr. Hu Shizhi was really a "licorice", and he was indispensable to any dose of medicine. He specializes in the comparative study of "vernacular" and "classical Chinese". According to himself, this kind of "research" is "forcing Liangshan". After he went to Liangshan, he tried his best to defend the mountain of "vernacular Chinese" and set up a monument to vernacular Chinese, but he tried his best to "slander" classical Chinese. In this respect, Mr. Hu's achievements in the past 60 years are second to none, and no other scholar can keep pace with him!
The development of China's "square characters" and its inevitable influence on China's social changes are really diametrically opposed to the influence of medieval European Latin (Latin letters were stolen, and Latin lost its soul, but it was trampled to death by dialect literature). Chinese characters are the greatest contribution to the unity of the Chinese nation in the past two thousand years, and they are the greatest energy for us to "divide for a long time"!
Hu Shi is our national treasure. Even if you put him in prison, he will contribute something. Unlike my generation, I don't learn homesickness, and no matter how good I am, it's still useless in the end!
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Hu Shi made friends all over the world before his death. From the president and chairman, to chefs, vendors, pawnbrokers, vegetable sellers and pulp sellers ... Hu Shizhi's "friends" are among them.
Hu Shizhi has something called "magnetic essence" by westerners, such as the magnetic field generated by magnetic objects in the physical world. This interpersonal attraction is innate, and it is a gift, "a gift from God".
Mr. Hu is a man of high international reputation, so his personality "magnetic field" is far away from overseas. During Hu Shi's stay in new york, many people laughed that he was China's "local protector" in new york.
Passing through new york without seeing Hu Shi is equivalent to visiting the West Lake without seeing the "Three Ponds with the Moon" and the "Leifeng Sunset". The West Lake is a waste of time. Hu Shizhi, also known as "Three Ponds Reflecting the Moon" and "Leifeng Sunset" in new york, is one of the eight scenic spots in new york. China celebrities passing by new york, if you haven't seen Hu Shi, go home. If they really want to have a wife who can't knit a sweater and a sister-in-law who can't cook, they will be ashamed to meet the elders in Jiangdong!
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The word "Hu Shi" is synonymous with all China's new diplomacy in the past 60 years. When people refer to Hu Shizhi, their intuitive image is always a modern scholar in a suit and tie, wearing gold-rimmed glasses, full of foreign languages and graceful demeanor.
Therefore, it is really uncoordinated and ironic to put "Hu Shi" and "Little Foot" together. Therefore, "Lady Hu Shizhi's Little Foot" seems to be one of the "Seven Wonders" in the history of the Republic of China!
Hu Shi's name hangs down the universe, and his wife and feet follow.
This is also Ms. Jiang Dongxiu's "eight characters". Well, Mr. Hu Shi "hit a wall" in two places of love. What can he say?
As the western proverb says, "wife" is the other half of a man. Hu Shi's "other half" is dead set on "protecting his husband and educating his children", living for him and serving him, so that he can rampage in his studies and career without worries!
Before his death, China people seemed to think that Dr. Hu was wronged when he mentioned "Mrs. Foot". At that time, how many people realized that he was the last "blessed person" in the marriage system of "three obedience and four virtues" in Chinese traditional agricultural society? !
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The first step of the plan is to sort out Hu Shi's autobiography, such as Forty Readings, Notes in the Chamber of Secrets, Diaries over the Years and other sporadic essays, and choose to sort them out;
The second step is to fill in the gaps in these works by means of "interview" and make a detailed "Hu Shinian (Japanese) spectrum;
The third step is to write an article according to the climax of this system-to help oral autobiography, and to supplement and comment from the side according to the information.
Autobiography and biography are two different kinds of knowledge. "Autobiography" is historical data, which everyone can get and keep; "Biography" is "historiography", which is the work of a trained historian. At that time, the outline of Hu Shi's oral history plan to Mr. Hu was both autobiographical and biographical.
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