The Modern Implication of HU Shi's Thoughts

HU Shi,famous thinker,educator and scholar in Modern China,had devoted all his life to education,academy and culture,and had paid close attention actively to the future and development of the State and the Chinese nation.HU's thoughts on education,academy and culture had produced great and profound impacts on the development of the thoughts and culture in modern China,and even have many aspiring and referring significances to the open-reform and modernization construction of contemporary China.Firstly,as the core person,HU had made to the development of New Culture Campaign protruding contributions,leading successfully the Mandarin Chinese Movement,advocating for individual liberation,proposing the definition of healthy and perfect individualism,vigorously promoting education reform,advocating for scientific thinking while against assertiveness-suspicion,creating academy regularization and all.Secondly,HU had contributed a lot in the Sino-Western cultural exchange and developing direction of Chinese culture,putting forth the earliest the programmatic outline for construction of the new Chinese culture,and standing for an openness attitude to the Sino-Western cultural exchange while against the so-called selfish-departmental view to the native culture.Thirdly,in political reform,HU,with no absolute objection to violent revolution,preferred to create the new political system through peaceful reform,enhancing social development.Fourthly,or lastly,in attitudes towards foreign powers,HU opposed foreign invasion in and oppression of China while argued for rational nationalism and against simply emotionalized exclusion.