Program on March 15, 2022: China’s Great Liberal of the 20th Century – Hu Shih Founder of Modern Chinese Language
- Binding: Softcover, 240 pages
- Language: English
- Author: Mark O’Neill
- Publisher: Joint Publishing (HK), 2022
Doctor Hu Shih was the most remarkable Chinese intellectual of the 20th century. He was most notable for pioneering vernacular Chinese which replaced the classical version that had been the written language for many centuries. He delivered lectures at Beijing University and elsewhere, authored 44 books and countless articles, and influenced tens of thousands of Chinese. He promoted family planning, equality for women and freedom of marriage and whether to have children. He said China should solve its many problems through research and analysis, not “isms”. As China’s ambassador in Washington from 1938-42, he was instrumental in persuading President Franklin Roosevelt not to sign a peace agreement with Japan and helping China to win the war.
2022年3月15日中心活動：China’s Great Liberal of the 20th Century – Hu Shih Founder of Modern Chinese Language
- 裝幀：平裝，228頁
- 語言：繁體中文
- 作者：馬克．奧尼爾
- 譯者：程翰
- 出版：三聯書店，2022
胡適1891年12月17日在上海出生，祖籍安徽。在上海接受中學教育後，他負笈美國，先後入讀康乃爾大學和哥倫比亞大學，前後七年。回國後，他年紀輕輕就擔任北京大學教授，1946年還出任該校校長；抗日戰爭期間關鍵的1938至1942年，他出任中國駐華盛頓大使，在推動美國介入二戰、軍事支援中國方面，起了積極作用。在生命中的最後四年裡，他擔任台灣中央研究院院長。
1911年滿清皇朝覆亡，西方嶄新和進步的思想湧入中國。胡適曾在不同的刊物當編輯，撰文介紹這些新思想，包括婚姻制度、提高婦權、文白之辯、孔儒思想、科學和民主等問題。他的一生、他的文章以及他的思想，影響、改變了無數中國人，是20世紀中國其中一位最偉大的公共知識分子。