Why did Hu Shi insist on not leaving Beiping?

Before Hu Shi decided to leave Peiping, the China * * * Production Party Radio Station in Xishan District had clearly announced that as long as Hu Shi did not leave Peiping and did not follow Chiang Kai-shek, China * * * guaranteed that Hu Shi would remain the principal of Peking University and the director of Beijing Library after the liberation of Peiping. Colleagues and subordinates of Peking University also advised Hu Shi to stay, but Hu Shi just shook his head and decided to go. When he was in a hurry, he left three sentences:

"There is no freedom of bread in Russia; America has bread and freedom. Here they come, no bread, no freedom. " Later, a friend sent a message from Mao Zedong to Hu Shi: As long as Hu Shi didn't leave, he could be the curator of the Beijing Library. After hearing this, Hu Shi only replied coldly: "Don't believe in the * * * production party!"

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Hu Shi (189 1 year1February 217 ~1February 24, 962), male, once used his surname, the word Jiang, as his scientific name, and later adapted. Thinkers, writers and philosophers. Jixi people in Huizhou are famous for advocating "vernacular Chinese" and leading the new culture movement. When I was a child, I studied in a private school in my hometown. 19 years old, admitted to boxer indemnity and became a formal student. I studied in the United States and studied under the philosopher john dewey.

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, advocated individual liberation and freedom of thought, and was the leader of the New Culture Movement together with Chen Duxiu.

His article expounds the difference between old and new literature from the perspective of creation theory, advocates the creation of new literature, translates some works of French Dodd, Mo Bosang and Norwegian Ibsen, and takes the lead in creating vernacular literature. His vernacular poems published in 19 17 are the first batch of new poems in the history of modern literature.

After the May Fourth Movement, he parted ways with intellectuals who accepted Marxism, such as Li Dazhao and Chen Duxiu, and started with the "dispute between problems and ism" and advocated improvement, so that he never talked about politics for twenty years; No politics for 20 years. 1920 for Effort Weekly, 1930 for Independent Review and 1940 for Independent Times.

Free China was founded in 1949. 1938 ~ 1942 ambassador of the Republic of China to the United States. 1939 was nominated by Nobel Prize in Literature. President Peking University from 1946 to 1948. 1949 Go to America. /kloc-returned to Taiwan in 0/952, and 1957 became the president of academia sinica. 1962 died in Taipei on February 24th.

Hu Shi's academic activities in his life were mainly in literature, philosophy, history, textual research, education and redology. His main works are Outline of China's Philosophy History (I), Collection of Trial Works, History of Vernacular Literature (I) and Hu Shi's Wen Cun (four episodes). His greatest academic influence is to advocate the method of "bold hypothesis and careful verification".