Hu Shih
Hu Shih
Hu Shihwas a Chinese philosopher, essayist and diplomat. Hu is widely recognized today as a key contributor to Chinese liberalism and language reform in his advocacy for the use of written vernacular Chinese. He was influential in the May Fourth Movement, one of the leaders of China's New Culture Movement, was a president of Peking University, and in 1939 was nominated for a Nobel Prize in literature. He had a wide range of interests such as literature, history, textual criticism,...
NationalityChinese
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth17 December 1891
CountryChina
The Renaissance movement of the last two decades differs from all the early movements in being a fully conscious and studied movement.
India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.
Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.
But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious.
Whenever you do something without asking yourself, "Why am I doing this?"-that is meaningless life... . The "why" of life makes it meaningful... . Only when an answer is given is one living life as a man.
Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.
Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance.