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Hu Shih: United States
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In discussing freedom of the press, Hu Shih knew whereof he spoke: he had lent his name to the critical fortnightly, Free China, which Wu conceded to be an exception to his accusation. Hu Shih's retort: Whoever heard of a police state that permitted "exceptional" freedom?
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Dr. Hu Shih has justly been acclaimed as one of modern China's foremost scholars, philosophers, and educators. He was revered not only in his native land but ... in the United States where for years he carried on his work. The republication of The Chinese Renaissance, the book by which he is best known in this country, thirty years after its first appearance is a fitting tribute to this inimitable scholar and man.
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The third factor to which Dr. Hu Shih draws attention is the censorial institution. This institution dates back to very ancient times, and China's long history abounds in instances of statesmen who openly and courageously condemned and opposed what they regarded as ruinous policies of government. Not a few of these out spoken advisers were either put to death or subjected to bodily torture. But they left behind them the tradition of exalting the tolerance of frank censure as the highest virtue of the ruler. In fact, the censorial system was in a sense an embodiment of the freedom of speech and may be regarded as the early Chinese counterpart of the modern parliament.
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China Institute was established in 1926 by a group of Chinese and American educators that included the American educational philosopher John Dewey of Columbia University and Hu Shih, Chinese educator, President of Peking University and China’s ambassador to the United States. It is the oldest educational institution in the United States focused exclusively on China. For over 80 years China Institute has fostered greater understanding between the people of the United States and the people of China.
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