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Author:   Carlos Lin ,  Chih-Ping Chou
Publisher:   The University of Michigan Press
Imprint:   The University of Michigan Press
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9780472055265

ISBN 10:   0472055267
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   17 October 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Introduction I: A Chinese Diplomat in the Cold War: Hu Shih’s View on International Politics Carlos Yu-Kai Lin Introduction II: Hu Shih’s Anti-Communist Thought Chih-ping Chou Chapter 1: “Do We Need or Want Dictatorship?” Chapter 2: “Family of Nations” Chapter 3: “The New Disorder in East Asia and the World at Large” Chapter 4: “China and the World War” Chapter 5: “Historical Foundations for a Democratic China” Chapter 6: “Ambassador Hu Shih Describes China’s Ten-Year Fight for Freedom, Struggle Against Aggression” Chapter 7: “The Conflict of Ideologies” Chapter 8: “The Chinese Revolution” Chapter 9: “China in Stalin’s Grand Strategy” Chapter 10: “The Free World Needs a Free China” Chapter 11: “Address to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, CA. in The Commonwealth, 1950” Chapter 12: “Why the Main War Will Be Fought in Asia-Not Europe” Chapter 13: “Communism in China” Chapter 14: “My Former Student, Mao Tse-tung” Chapter 15: Book review of John deFrancis’s Nationalism and Language Reform in China Chapter 16: “How to Understand a Decade of Rapidly Deteriorated Sino-American Relations” Chapter 17: “Communism, Democracy, and Culture Pattern” Chapter 18: “China Seven Years after Yalta” Chapter 19: “Suffering Chinese Intellectuals Behind the Iron Curtain” Chapter 20: “China in Distress” Chapter 21: “The Three Stages of the Campaign for Thought Reform in Communist China” Chapter 22: “‘Introduction’ to Liu Shaw-tong’s Out of Red China” Chapter 23: “‘Introduction’ to John Leighton Stuart’s Fifty Years in China” Chapter 24: “Communist Propaganda and the Fall of China” Chapter 25: “How Free is Formosa?” Chapter 26: “The Right to Doubt in Ancient Chinese Thought” Chapter 27: “The Importance of a Free China” Chapter 28: “Intellectual China Still Resistant to Communist Dictatorship: The Suffering Intellectuals in Red China” Chapter 29: “The Communist Regime in China is Unstable and Shaky” Chapter 30: “A Sum-up and a Warning” Chapter 31: “John Dewey in China” Chapter 32: “China’s Lesson for Freedom” Chapter 33: “The Conflict Between Man’s Right to Knowledge and the Security of the Community” Chapter 34: “The Chinese Tradition and the Future”

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The essays collected here offer a very clear picture of Hu Shih's contribution to the English-speaking world's understanding of the modern Chinese political situation, traditional Chinese thought values, and China's place in the world. --Josephine Chiu-Duke, University of British Columbia-- Josephine Chiu-Duke

"""The essays collected here offer a very clear picture of Hu Shih's contribution to the English-speaking world's understanding of the modern Chinese political situation, traditional Chinese thought values, and China's place in the world."" --Josephine Chiu-Duke, University of British Columbia-- ""Josephine Chiu-Duke"""

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Chih-p’ing Chou is Professor Emeritus of East Asian Studies at Princeton University. Carlos Yu-Kai Lin is Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Translation at the City University of Hong Kong.

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