The Chinese philosopher Hu Shih (1891-1962) was in the literary and intellectual avant-garde during the New Thought movement of 1915-1919. As the premier Chinese disciple of John Dewey, he applied the principles of instrumentalism to scholarship and...

(1891–1962), Chinese intellectual. Born in Jixi, Anhui Province, Hu Shi was China's leading liberal scholar and educator of his time. Hu laid an important foundation for the 1919 May 4th Movement with an essay published in 1917 in the...

The 1953 debate between Hu Shih and D.T. Suzuki is confused because they use the terms Ch'an or Zen to mean different things, so that neither ever actually engages with the other's position. Hu uses Ch'an to denote the historical Buddhist sect in China,...

Memo From: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. To: President Hu Jintao of China. Dear President Hu: I am sure you thought that your first letter from me would be about trade and human rights. Those issues still animate my party. But I'm convinced...