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Hu Shih: China Institute
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Last week, in his headquarters near Taipei, Dr. Hu Shih, 70, presided at a cocktail party in honor of new Academia fellows. Suddenly, he collapsed and died of a heart attack. His death severed one of the notable links between his present-day, divided nation and the hopeful, revolutionary years of a half-century ago when Sun Yat-sen founded the Republic of China. Like his country, Hu Shih's own family was split: one son is on the Communist mainland, another in the U.S. For his many friends, Dr. Hu Shih's epitaph could be taken from one of his own poems:
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This park commemorates one of the great thinkers of modern China, Hu Shih. It is divided into a front mountain park and a back mountain cemetery ground. The front mountain park has many trees and flowers and is a quiet place. If you follow the stone steps near the fountain pond up the hill, you will reach the back mountain cemetery ground. Cypress trees and azalea flowers surround the grave of Hu Shih. Every year on the birthday of Hu Shih, people gather here to pay him tribute.
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During the past few years, research fellows from the Institute of Modern History and specialists employed by the Memorial Hall have worked to edit, translate, and publish Dr. Hu Shih¡¦s letters. Volumes covering his correspondence with Yang Lien-sheng, Edith Clifford Williams, and Lei Chen were published in 1998, 1999, and 2001 respectively.
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