Description

Book Synopsis
Dr Hu Shih (1891-1962) was one of China’s top scholars and diplomats and served as the Republic of China’s ambassador to the United States during World War II. This volume brings together a collection of Hu Shih’s most important, mostly unpublished, English-language speeches, interviews, and commentaries on international politics.

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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      Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 17/10/2022
      ISBN13: 9780472055265, 978-0472055265
      ISBN10: 0472055267
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Dr Hu Shih (1891-1962) was one of China’s top scholars and diplomats and served as the Republic of China’s ambassador to the United States during World War II. This volume brings together a collection of Hu Shih’s most important, mostly unpublished, English-language speeches, interviews, and commentaries on international politics.

      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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