A biography for Hu Shihhasn’t been written yet.
“Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance.”
“Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.”
“Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights.”
“Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.”