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Hu Shih
Hu Shih
(, 17 December 1891 – 24 February 1962) was 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, and pedagogy. He was also an influential
redology
scholar and held the famous Jiaxu manuscript for many years until his death.
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