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As a scholar, William Hung was instrumental in opening China's rich documentary past to modern scrutiny. As an educator, he helped shape one of twentieth-century China's most remarkable institutions, Yenching University. A member of the buoyant, Western-educated generation that expected to transform China into a modern, liberal nation, he saw his hopes darken as political turmoil, war with Japan, and the Communist takeover led to a different f...

Hu Shi, whose life touched virtually every important aspect of society in the twentieth-century China, in particular with his significant contribution in supporting Chinese liberalism and advocating the use of Vernacular Chinese, is perhaps the most fully documented Chinese individual of all time. Through delving into the correspondences the two exchanged over almost half a century and many other written materials, A Pragmatist and His Free Sp...