During the May Fourth period, Hu Shih wrote "On the Literary Concept of History" and "On the Literary Revolution of Construction," advocating "the literature of the national language and the national language of literature," and completed his works "An Introduction to the National Language and Grammar" and "The History of Vernacular Literature," which played a decisive role in making the Vernacular language an important tool of thought and communication for modern Chinese, in place of the Mandarin language. The book was the first of its kind to be published in the United States.
Along with his theoretical advocacy, Hu also made some "attempts" at literary creation. His novels and plays were unsuccessful, but the only one he published in 1902 was "The Book of Experiments," the first collection of new poems in the vernacular in the history of literature, which was quite a pioneering work.
Literary creation was not his specialty, but in the New Culture Movement, another major contribution of Hu Shi was the importation of new ideas. His "Ibsenism" and "Problem of Chastity" were deafening works. From the controversy over the question of chastity to the collection of human rights essays and the hosting of the Independent Review, Hu Shih always insisted on an independent stance and a critical spirit. During the war of resistance, Hu Shih became the ambassador to the United States, and after the victory, he served as the president of Peking University and the president of Academia Sinica. However, he always maintained his scholarly character and never betrayed the intellectuals of May Fourthism.
Hu Shih called the New Culture Movement "China's Renaissance" and asserted that it had a four-fold purpose: to study the problems, to import theories, to tidy up the country's past, and to rebuild civilization. According to his understanding, the so-called organization of national history is to use scientific methods to carry out some systematic research on the broken ancient learning over the past 3,000 years. Therefore, Hu Shih's study emphasizes the method, and he has repeatedly written articles introducing the "scientific method" of Qing Confucianism and Western philosophy, so much so that he repeatedly claimed that his academic research is to prove and promote his "scientific method".
Hu Shi had two main fields of study, the history of Chinese philosophy and the history of Chinese literature. Although only the first volume of the Outline of the History of Chinese Philosophy was published, and there is no second volume of the History of Literature in the Vernacular, these two books are classic works that establish the norms and lay the foundation of the discipline. Posterity can appreciate or criticize them, but cannot ignore their existence. The former's perspective on the sons and their history, and the latter's concept of a two-line literature are "bold assumptions" that have had a profound impact on the academic development of this century. In addition, he was the first to create a new red science, to revise the history of Zen Buddhism, and to use the historical evolution method to study the Chinese novels, all of which were the beginning of a new generation, which is of great merit.
After the war, due to the national affairs, coupled with the inherent limitations of his own academic path, Hu Shih was not able to move up the academic ladder. In his later years, he indulged in the case of "Water Classic", and made great efforts, but the results were not as satisfactory as he had hoped.
Hu Shi's life chronology
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Born on December 17, 1891, at the age of one, outside the Great Eastern Gate of Shanghai.
19892 Year 2 Years old At the end of February, he moves to Pudong with his mother, Feng Shundi.
3 years old in 1893, Feb. Followed her mother to her father's home in Taiwan, Hu Chuan-jen, where she first lived in Tainan and then moved to Taitung.
1984 Age 4 Taught to read Chinese characters by Hu Chuan in Taitung.
1985 Age 5 February Returns to Shanghai with his mother from Taiwan due to the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War.
March Goes to Shangzhuang, Jixi, Anhui Province, where he is from, to study at home.
August Hu Chuan (Tiehua) dies in Xiamen.
1896 Six years old Studying at the family school.
1897 Age 7 Studying at home school.
1989-8 years old: 8 years old, studying at home school.
1899 Age 9: Studied at home school. Begins to encounter classical Chinese novels.
1900 Age 10: Studied at home school.
1991 Age 11 Studied at home school. The quotes from Fan Jian's "The Theory of Divine Destruction" in the Ziji Tongjian have a profound influence on him.
1902 Twelve years old, studying in the family school.
In 1903, at the age of thirteen, he started to study at home school. Begins to learn "backward cutting".
1904 Age 14 Engaged to Jiang Dongxiu in January.
February, went to Shanghai from his third brother, Hung Yen, and enrolled in the Meixi School.
This year, she reads Liang Qichao's "New People's Sayings" and Zou Rong's "Revolutionary Army".
1905 years old 15 years old spring Australia into the Cheng Yi school, where read Yan Fu translation of the theory of the evolution of the sky and the theory of the group of the power of the world and other books.
1906 years old sixteen years old in the summer to enter the Chinese public school.
In that year, he joined the Competitive Enterprise Society and published novels, poems and articles in the Competitive Enterprise Weekly. In 1907, at the age of seventeen, he was still studying at the China Public School.
May to July, he went back to Jixi to recuperate from a foot disease.
1908 18 years old. July: Editor-in-chief of the "Competitive Business Weekly".
September: Transferred to the New China Public School as an English teacher.
1999 Age 19 October The New Public School was disbanded. He lost his job and became unemployed, living a life of debauchery in Shanghai.
190 Years old: 20 In the spring, he taught Chinese at the Huatong Public School.
In May, he went to Beijing with his second brother Shaozhi to study.
July: He was admitted to Tsinghua University as an official student studying in the U.S.A. under the name of Hu Shih, and henceforth he was officially called Hu Shih.
August 16, took a boat from Shanghai to the United States.
September, he entered Cornell University, where he studied agriculture.
In 1911, at the age of twenty-one, he was still studying at Cornell University's College of Agriculture.
July, elected Chinese secretary of the Reparations Student Union.
19121 Years old 22 September Transferred to the College of Arts and Letters, where he studied philosophy, economics, and literature.
November Initiates the organization of the Political Research Society.
December: Represented the Cornell University Pax Romana in Philadelphia, and was elected as a constitutional officer.
In 1913, at the age of 23, he was still studying at the Cornell University College of Arts and Letters.
May Elected president of the World Student Association.
1914 Age 24 April Appointed head of the Philosophy Group of the Cornell University Student-Student Association.
June 17, graduated with a B.A. degree.
September Appointed as one of the chief writers of the Student English Monthly, responsible for domestic news.
1915 25 years old January 9, Cornell WSA 10th Anniversary Ceremony; as President, gave a speech on "The Purpose of the WSA".
September: Enrolled in the Philosophy Department at Columbia University. Dewey was the chairman of the department.
19196 Age 26 Still studying philosophy at Columbia University.
Since February, he has been discussing literary revolution with Chen Duxiu, Zhu Jingnong, Mei Guangdi, Ren Hong and Yang Xingfo, and composing vernacular poems.
In 1917, he was 27 years old. On January 27, he gave a speech in Philadelphia on "How the United States Can Assist in the Development of China".
May On May 22, he passed the final examination for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
In June, he left for China and arrived in Shanghai on July 10th.
August He became a professor at Peking University.
In December, he returned to Jixi, Anhui Province, and married Jiang Dongxiu.
In the same year, he joined the editorial staff of New Youth.
In 1918, at the age of 28, he was still teaching at Peking University.
In March, he was elected as the director of the Peking University English Department Professors' Association.
November On November 23, he went to Tianjin to meet with Liang Qichao. On that day, his mother, Feng Shundi, died of illness.
19 Years old Still teaching at Peking University
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February Participated in the editorial board of New Education. He was also elected as a member of the Preparatory Committee for the Unification of the National Language.
On May 1, he met Dewey in Shanghai to lecture in China. Soon afterward, he and Chiang Menglin went to visit Dr. Sun Yat-sen and talked about the doctrine of "knowledge is difficult, action is easy".
June: He took over the Weekly Review and started a debate on "Problems and Doctrines".
On October 12, he participated in the birthday celebration organized by the Ministry of Education and Peking University for Dewey's 60th birthday in Zhongshan Park.
On October 12, he attended the birthday celebration organized by the Ministry of Education and Peking University in Zhongshan Park for Dewey's 60th birthday.
November: Acting Provost of Peking University (on leave of absence due to Provost Ma Yinchu's eye disease).
[Author] Outline of the History of Chinese Philosophy, Volume 1 (Shanghai, Commercial Press, 1919; rearranged in 1929 and collected in the "Wan You Wen Shu" of the Commercial Press, renamed History of Ancient Chinese Philosophy. (This rearranged edition was printed by the Commercial Press in Taiwan in 1958). Zhongguo zhi shi xiaogang (Outline of the History of Chinese Philosophy), vol. 7 (The first seven chapters of the history of medieval philosophy) (Peking, Peking University Publication Department, 1919; this edition is not yet complete). The seventh chapter, "Wang Chong," was published in <a href="/adpub/click?adid=227&;;id=aimimi.&" target="_blank"><font color=#FF0000& gt;magazine</font></a> was published, and later collected as one of the appendices in Huang Hui's Lunheng xuexue.) (Shanghai, Yadong Library, 1919)
In 1920, at the age of thirty, he was still teaching at Peking University.
April Lectured on "History of Mandarin Literature" at the Mandarin Institute.
In May, he and Jiang Menglin jointly published "Our Hope for the Students". At the end of the year, he disassociated himself from New Youth.
[Author] The Collection of Attempts (Peking, Peking University Publishing Department, 1920; the second edition of 1920 had some additions and deletions, and the fourth edition of 1922 had many additions and deletions.
1921 thirty-one years old, spring, sick at home
July, Zhan Mengdan invited him to Shanghai to live temporarily, and intended to ask him to be the director of the compilation and compilation office of the Commercial Press, but did not agree to it, and referred him to Wang Yunwu.
In the second half of the year, in addition to the big task, he went to the Mandarin Institute to give lectures on the "History of Mandarin Literature" for eight weeks.
[Author] Hu Shi Wen Cun, a collection (Peking, Peking University Publishing Department, 1921; Hu Shi Wen Cun, collections I, II, and III, and the first collection of Hu Shi's recent writings on the subject of literature were rearranged and printed as a collection of Hu Shi Wen Cun by the Far Eastern Book Company in Taipei, February 1953 □ edition. (Each of the four parts of this collection has been censored by Mr. Hu himself).
In 1922, at the age of thirty-two, Mr. Hu was still teaching at Peking University.
On February 18, Mr. Hu was elected as a member of the Compensation Department of the Committee for the Planning of National Education Funding of the China Education Improvement Association.
On March 23, he lectured at Nankai University in Tianjin for three weeks.
On April 25, he was elected provost of Peking University and chairman of the Department of English Literature.
On May 7, the first issue of Endeavor Weekly, which he wrote, was published. On May 7, the first issue of Endeavor Weekly, which he authored, was published. On May 14, he and Cai Yuanpei and Wang Yinghui jointly published "Our Political Advocacy" - "Good Man Politics".
July In Jinan, he gave a lecture on "The teaching of Chinese language in secondary schools".
August Attends the fourth annual meeting of the Preparatory Committee for the Unification of the Chinese Language.
September: "Endeavor Weekly" supplement - "Reading<a href="/adpub/click?adid=227&;id=aimimi.&" target="_blank"><font color=#FF0000>Magazine</font></a>" published. At the end of the month, attended the national government education held a conference on the school system, as one of the draft declaration.
October An Jinan to attend the National Federation of Education Associations.
[By] The Chronicle of Mr. Zhang Shiqi (edited and supplemented by Yao Mingda) (Shanghai, The Commercial Press, 1922)
193 Years old
January He took a year's leave of absence from the Peking University, and went to Hangzhou, China, to recuperate in Yanxia Cave.
April 21 Beijing, arrived in Hangzhou at the end of the month.
April Received the third-class Jiahe Badge from the Lu Case Committee.
October to the Shanghai university of business lecture "philosophy and life". In October, he went to Nanjing Southeast University to give a lecture on "the history of the academy system", and returned to Beijing at the end of the month.
This year he became the director of the editorial committee of the Quarterly Journal of National Studies.
In 1924, at the age of 34, he was still teaching at Peking University.
In June, he prepared the Modern Review.
August: Ding Wenjiang and the author spend the summer in Beidaihe.
October Wang Guowei is recommended to be the director of the Tsinghua School Research Institute.
On November 5, he writes a letter to Wang Zhengting, protesting against the siege of the Qing Palace by Feng's army and the expulsion of the Qing Emperor.
On December 13, the first issue of Modern Review was published.
[Author] Hu Shi Wen Cun (Shanghai, Yadong Library, 1924)
195, age 35, still teaching at Peking University
February, attends a conference on the aftermath of the Duan Qirui government.
March Appointed as a Chinese member of the "Sino-British Advisory Committee on the Gung Ho Fund".
May Elected as a member of the Board of Directors of the Chinese Library Association, a member of the Finance Committee, and secretary of the Indexing Committee.
October He went to Shanghai for medical treatment. During this period, he lectured on Chinese philosophy at the University of Political Science and the Chinese Public School, and traveled to Nanjing with Zheng Zhenduo and Gao Mengdan.
November: Elected secretary of the Beiping Library Committee.
1926 Age 36
From February to mid-July, he participated in the "China Mission" of the "Sino-British Advisory Committee on the Gung Ho Dollar", which traveled from Shanghai to Hankou, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Beiping, Tianjin, and Harbin.
Late July to mid-December, he went to England via Siberia to attend the meeting of all the members of the "Sino-British Gung Ho Fund", and in the middle of the meeting, he went to France.
December 31, he took a ship to the United States.
1977 Age 37
January to mid-April: Traveled and lectured in New York and Philadelphia.
April 12: Returned to Japan from Seattle. On the 24th, he went to Yokohama, Japan, where he stayed for 23 days and traveled to Kyoto, Nara, and Osaka.
The end of May, he returned to Shanghai and founded the Crescent Bookstore with Xu Zhimo.
June Elected as a member of the Board of Directors of the China Education and Culture Foundation.
July-December Writes and lectures in Shanghai.
Elected as a director of the Chinese Library Association. Becomes chairman of the board of directors and a member of the editorial committee of Crescent Bookstore.
[Author] The Philosophy of Dai Dongyuan (Shanghai, Yadong Library, 1927) [Editor] Selected Words (Shanghai, The Commercial Press, 1927)
Nineteen twenty-eight, thirty-eight years of age February Appointed by Soochow University and Kwang Hwa University to give lectures on philosophy.
March Appointed principal of Shanghai China Public School.
April Traveled to Lushan with Gao Mengdan and others. On the 30th, he became the principal of the Shanghai Chinese Public School and the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
May Saddle up in Nanjing to attend the National Education Conference.
[Author] History of Literature in the Vernacular, vol. 1 (Shanghai, Crescent Bookstore, 1928) [Author] Journey to Lushan (Shanghai, Crescent Bookstore, 1928)
19 Years old, 39, still principal of the China Public School and dean of the Faculty of Letters and Science
January An Hangzhou, attending the third meeting of the Board of Trustees of the China Education Fund, resigned as a director.
June The Board of Trustees of the China Education and Culture Fund held its fifth annual meeting in Tianjin and re-elected him as a director.
September: Anzhou visits the West Lake Exposition.
[Author] Human Rights (co-authored with Liang Shiqiu and others) (Shanghai, Crescent Bookstore, 1929)
1930, age 40, first half of the year, remains principal of the China Public School and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
On April 10, in "Let's Go That Way," he proposed, "To be eradicated and defeated are the five great enemies of poverty, disease, ignorance, corruption, and disturbance.
In July, he went to Nanjing to attend the sixth annual meeting of the Chinese Culture and Education Fund Committee, where he was appointed chairman of the compilation committee.
August Saddle up in Qingdao.
September: went to Peking and gave a lecture at Peking University.
November, the beginning of the month back to Shanghai. On the 28th, the family moved to Peking.
[Author] Hu Shi Wen Cun (Shanghai, Yadong Library, 1930) Hu Shi Wen Xuan (Shanghai, Yadong Library, 1930) The first nine chapters of A Long Compilation of the History of Ancient and Medieval Chinese Thought (mimeographed) (Wusong, China Public School, 1930; Taipei, Hu Shi Memorial Hall, 1971), printed in manuscript; this copy has not yet been completed. Two parts of the chapter on "Thought between the Qin and Han Dynasties" were later collected in the Literature Collection under the titles "Reading the Spring and Autumn Annals of Lu Shi" and "Examining the New Words of Lu Jia". The two parts of the chapter on "The Book of King Huainan" were later collected in the Wenxun under the title "Reading the Spring and Autumn Annals of Lu Shi" and "Examining the New Words of Lu Jia".) (edited by the monk Shen Hui) (Shanghai, Yadong Library, 1930)
1931 aged 41 On January 9, he went to Shanghai to attend the fifth regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of the China Education and Culture Fund. After the meeting, he returned to Peking to become Dean of the Faculty of Letters and Head of the Department of Chinese Literature at Peking University.
On April 24, he attended the 36th Joint Meeting of the Executive Committee of the China Education and Culture Foundation, which approved the special fund for the cooperative research between Peking University and the China Foundation.
August At the invitation of Ding Wenjiang, he stayed in Qindao.
November: He wrote a letter to Song Ziwen, advocating negotiation with Japan on the aftermath of the Three Eastern Provinces on the basis of the Five Principles proposed by the Japanese government.
Yesterday, he becomes the chairman of the Pacific Institute's conference in China.
[Edited] Selected Examples of the History of Chinese Literature, Volume I (Bei, Peking University Publication Department, 1931) [Written] The Book of the King of Huainan (Shanghai, Crescent Bookstore, 1931)
1932 Age 42 Still dean of the Faculty of Letters of the Peking University and chairman of the Department of Chinese Literature.
In January, he went to Shanghai to attend the sixth regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of the China Education and Culture Foundation.
In May, the Independent Review, co-organized with Jiang Tingfei, Ding Wenjiang, and Fusnian, was published.
In July, he attended the eighth annual meeting of the China Education and Culture Foundation.
December Goes to Wuhan University to lecture and meets Mr. Chiang Kai-shek for the first time.
In this year, the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Germany elects him as a correspondent member.
[Author] A Synopsis of the History of Chinese Thought in the Middle Ages (Twelve Lectures) (Peking, Peking University Publication Department, 1932)
1933 Aged 43 He remained dean of the Faculty of Letters and head of the Department of Chinese Literature at Peking University.
January Attends the seventh regular meeting of the Board of Directors of the China Education and Culture Foundation in Shanghai.
March 3, with Ding Wenjiang, Weng Wenhao secretly telegram Mr. Chiang Kai-shek: "Jehol critical ...... non-government immediately flew to the rescue teaching, the government will not be able to solve the world. On the 13th, with Ding Wenjiang, Weng Wenhao went to Baoding to visit Chiang. On the 19th, and find He Yingqin, Yu Xuezhong, instigating Sino-Japanese armistice negotiations.
On June 18, he left Shanghai for the United States.
July In July, he gave a lecture on "Trends in Chinese Culture" in Chicago. In the middle of this month, he was appointed chairman of the National Beiping Library Committee at the ninth annual meeting of the China Education and Culture Foundation.
August-September He attends the Fifth Congress of the Pacific Institute in Banff, Canada, and gives a lecture at the University of Gaza.
Early October Returns to China by ship.
[Author] Forty Autobiographies (Vol. 1) (Shanghai, Yadong Library, 1933) [Translation] Short Stories, Second Collection (Shanghai, Yadong Library, 1933)
1934 Age 44 Still dean of the Faculty of Literature and head of the Department of Chinese Literature at Peking University.
February Saddle up in Nanjing to attend the ninth regular meeting of the board of directors of the China Education and Culture Foundation.
May Attended the 10th annual meeting of the board of directors of the China Education and Culture Foundation
November Went to Nanjing to attend a meeting in Kaokuan.
In 1935, at the age of forty-five, he remained dean of the Faculty of Letters and head of the Department of Chinese Literature at Peking University.
On January 5, receives an honorary doctorate in law from the University of Hong Kong. On the 9th, goes to Guangzhou. From the 11th, in Wuzhou. Nanning, Liuzhou, Guilin, Yangshuo and other places lectures, tours. On the 25th, he went to Hong Kong and spiraled back to Peking.
On April 19, he attended the eleventh annual meeting of the board of directors of the China Education and Culture Foundation in Shanghai.
Early July: Traveled to Ping Sui Road.
September 7, he was elected as a member of the First Convocation of the Central Research Institute of the National Government.
On October 26, he attended the ninth regular meeting of the China Education and Culture Foundation in Shanghai.
[Author] Hu Shih's Recent Writings on Literature (Shanghai, Commercial Press, 1935; later edited as Hu Shih's Wenshu, Taipei, Far East, 1953) [Author] Miscellaneous Reminiscences of a Journey to the South (Liangyou Book Co., 1935) [Editor] New Literature of China (Liangyou Book Co., 1935) [Editor] New Literature of China (Liangyou Book Co., 1935) [Editor] Theories on the Construction of China (Liangyou Book Co., 1935) [1936] Age 46 First half of the year Remained dean of the Faculty of Letters and head of the Department of Chinese Literature at Peking University.
On July 7, he went to Shanghai. On the 14th, departs for the U.S. to attend the Congress of the Pacific International Society.
August and October: Lectured in various places in the United States and Canada.
Early November, in San Francisco, departed for China.
1937 Age 47 In the first half of the year, he remained Dean of the Faculty of Letters and Head of the Department of Chinese Literature at Peking University.
July 8, leaves Beiping. On the 11th, he went to Lushan, where he was received by Mr. Chiang Kai-shek, and then participated in the Lushan Talks. On the 28th, he returned to Nanjing. On the 31st, Mr. Chiang Kai-shek invited him to have lunch with Mr. Zhang Boling and Mr. Mei Yiqi.
August 13, was appointed as a senator of the National Defense Council of the National Government.
September to December, he went to the United States to do unorthodox diplomatic work, met with Roosevelt, and published "China's Expectations of the United States in the Crisis of Purpose" on Columbia Radio in San Francisco.
Nineteen thirty-eight, forty-eight years old, traveled and lectured in the U.S. and Canada from January to May.
June Elected as a member of the National Council of the Nationalist Government.
June to July: Continued traveling and lecturing in the U.S. and Canada.
August Traveled to France, Switzerland and Prussia.
September 17, the Nationalist Government appointed him Ambassador Plenipotentiary to the United States.
October 3: Arrived in New York from Europe. On October 3, he returned to New York from Europe. On October 31st, he wrote a poem entitled "On his own photo, for Chen Guangfu": "As a pawn, I can only fight my way forward.
In 1939, at the age of 49, Chen Guangfu was still the ambassador to the United States.
[Author] Zanghui lounge ji ji (Shanghai, Yadong Library, 1939) (rearranged and re-published by Commerce in 1947, renamed Hu Shi's Diary of Studying Abroad)
In 1940, at the age of fifty, he remained ambassador to the United States.
On March 5, he was elected as a candidate for the presidency of the Academia Sinica of the National Government.
1941 Fifty-one years old Still serving as ambassador to the U.S.A.
On March 5, he was elected president of the Central Academy of the National Government.
1942 Age 52 January to August Still serving as Ambassador to the United States.
Sept. 8, resigned as ambassador to the U.S. and moved to New York to engage in academic research.
1943 Age 53 In January, he was appointed Honorary Advisor to the Oriental Division of the Library of Congress.
1944 Age 54 September Appointed by Harvard University to give lectures.
1945 Age 55 On April 25, he became a member of the National Government delegation to the United Nations Constitutional Convention in San Francisco.
In September, he was appointed by the National Government as the president of Peking University, and was temporarily appointed by Fu Shi Zi before returning to China.
November, as the chief delegate of the National Government delegation, attends the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization meeting in London to formulate the organization's charter.
1946 Aged 56 June 1, returns to China from the United States.
July 5, arrives in Shanghai. Passes through Nanjing and stays there for a short time. At the end of the month, he arrived in Beiping.
September 11: Arrives in Nanjing. On the 15th, he attended the National Assembly of the National Government.
December 23: Became a member of the organizing group of the National Convention on the "Draft Resolution on the Constitution".
In 1947, at the age of 57, he was still the president of Peking University. The national government proposed to appoint him as the president of the Examination Yuan and a member of the State Council, but he did not accept the appointment, saying, "If I don't join the government, I will be able to help the government more".
December editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper "Declaration - literature and history".
1948 Age 58 Still President of Peking University
On March 25, he attended the Convocation of the Academia Sinica of the National Government in Nanjing, and was elected as a member of the Humanities Group of the first session.
On April 4, he became a member of the Presidium of the National Assembly.
In September, he was elected as a member of the Academic Conference of the Beiping Institute.
Hu Shih's Current Theory (Six Arts Bookstore, 1948)
1994 Aged 59 On January 14, he left for Shanghai.
Late March: After seven days in Taiwan, he returns to Shanghai.
April 6, took a boat in Shanghai and left for the United States.
On November 20, the inaugural issue of Free China was published in Taipei, with him as the "publisher".
[Author] Forty Exhibition Catalogs of the Editions of Shui Jing Ji (The Fifth Anniversary of Peking University) (Peking, Peking University Publication Department, 1949) [Author] We Must Choose Our Direction (Taipei, Free China Society, 1949) (an addendum to the collection of Hu Shih's Essays on the Times) [Author] The Chronicle of Qi Baishi (co-authored with Lai Jinxi and Deng Guangming) (Shanghai, The Commercial Press, 1949)
We must choose our direction (Free China Society, 1949) [Author] The Chronology of Qi Baishi (co-authored with Lai Jinxi and Deng Guangming) (Shanghai, Commercial Press, 1949) (1949)
1950 60 years old In early March, to Washington, D.C., to attend the Chinese Educational and Cultural Foundation meeting, was elected president of the Association.
May 14 Princeton University hires him as director of the GSD Oriental Library for two years.
September Inaugurated as director of the Gothic Oriental Library.
1951 Age sixty-one Still Director of the Gothic Field Library.
[Edited] Taiwan Records of Two Kinds (edited with Luo Ergang) (Taiwan Provincial Documentation Committee, 1951) (i.e., Mr. Hu Tiehua's posthumous work, Taiwan Diary and Taiwan Endowments, printed by the Economic Research Office of the Bank of Taiwan as the seventy-first issue of the Taiwan Documentation Series).
1952 62 years old February, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization as a member of the "World Commission on Human Science and Culture". Summer Princeton University, the end of the appointment, is still the honorary host.
Speaks and lectures in Taiwan from late November to the end of the year.
1953 Age 63 In January, he left Taiwan and returned to the U.S. via Japan.
1954 Age 64 February to March He went to Taiwan to attend the "Second Session of the First National Convention", served as "Provisional President", and presented Chiang Kai-shek with the certificate of presidential election.
On April 5, he left Taiwan for the United States.
1955 Age 65 Lectured in various parts of the United States.
1957 Age 67 On September 26, he attended the United Nations General Assembly as a representative of the so-called "Chinese Delegation" and delivered a reactionary speech.
November: Became president of the Academia Sinica.
1958 Age 68 In April, he left the U.S. and arrived in Taipei.
On September 5, he hosted the 29th Annual Meeting of the Chinese Education and Culture Foundation in Washington, DC.
1959 Age 69
On February 1, he became the chairman of the so-called "Scientific Committee on Long-Term National Development".
July Attends the Third East-West Philosophical Conference sponsored by the University of Hawaii and receives the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Hawaii.
September: Hosts the 30th annual meeting of the China Education and Culture Foundation in Washington, D.C.
November: Attends the third East-West Philosophy Conference organized by the University of Hawaii.
On November 1, he presided over the second plenary session of the National Scientific Committee on Long-Term Development and the sixth meeting of the Third Convocation.
1960 At the age of seventy, he remained president of the Academia Sinica.
[Author] Ding Wenjiang's Biography (Nangang Academia Sinica, 1960; Taipei, Qiming, R.O.C. 49)
November [edited] Li-Yan-Qi's Reappraisal of the Stone Records of the Qianlong Jixu (photocopied) (Taipei, self-published, 1961)
1962 Age 72 On the morning of February 24, presided over the fifth meeting of the Academia Sinica and the sixth meeting of the Third Convocation. "In the morning of February 24, presided over the Fifth Meeting of the Academia Sinica. At 6:30 p.m., at the end of the "Welcome Reception for New Academicians," he died of a sudden heart attack.