Title: Former President of Peking University.
Dean of academia sinica
Scholars, poets. He is famous for advocating the May 4th literary revolution. First place, scientific name Hong, the word is just right. A native of Jixi, Anhui Province, studied in a private school in his hometown when he was young. Deeply influenced by Zhu Cheng's Neo-Confucianism. 1in the spring of 904, he went to Shanghai and entered a new school. 19 10 was admitted to boxer indemnity as an official student, went to the United States, and studied at Cornell University and Columbia University successively. 19 14 studied under the philosopher J. Dewey and was deeply influenced by his pragmatic philosophy. 19 17 1 In June, his essay "Literary Improvement" was published in New Youth magazine, and he put forward eight things about literary improvement, emphasizing the use of vernacular Chinese instead of classical Chinese as a formal literary language, which opened a gap for new literature to replace old literature and was praised as "the pioneer of raising the banner of righteousness" in the literary revolution. 1965438+Returned to China in the summer of 2007 and was employed as Professor Peking University.
19 18 joined the editorial department of New Youth, vigorously advocated vernacular Chinese, publicized personality liberation and freedom of thought, and became the leader of the New Culture Movement on an equal footing with Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao. He has published some articles one after another, expounding the differences between the old and new literature from the perspective of creative theory, advocating new literary creation, translating some novels, poems and literary works of French A Dodd G.D.E Mo Bosang and Norwegian H J Ibsen, and taking the lead in writing vernacular literature. His vernacular poems published in 19 17 are the first batch of new poems in the history of modern literature. Hu Shi believes in pragmatic philosophy. After the May 4th Movement, he parted ways with intellectuals who accepted Marxism, such as Li Dazhao and Chen Duxiu. Starting from the "dispute between problems and ism", he advocated improvement and changed his attitude of not talking about politics for 20 years. He has been acting for Hard Weekly for 20 years, Independent Review for 30 years and Independent Review Society for 40 years, all of which are political publications. 1938 ~ 1942 served as the ambassador of the national government to the United States. President Peking University from 1946 to 1948. 1949 Go to America. From 65438 to 0958, he returned to Taiwan Province Province as the president of Academia Sinica. Hu Shi's academic activities in his life were mainly in history, literature and philosophy. His greatest academic influence is to advocate the method of "bold hypothesis and careful verification". In his later years, he devoted himself to Zhu's textual research, but did not write the final version. 1962 died in Taipei.
His main works are Outline of China's Philosophy History (I), Trial Collection, History of Vernacular Literature (I) and Hu Cun (four episodes).