Windy Dust Scholar: A Biography of Wu Jihui

Author: Luo Pinghan
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Publish Date: 2002-04-01
Features: Wu Zhihui received a rigorous traditional Chinese classics education and was also influenced by modern Western learning. In his early years, he gained fame as an anarchist thinker, but later became a cultural conservative. His personality was eccentric, and he was known for his habit of criticizing people and the world, often speaking outlandish and controversial ideas. As a prominent figure in the Kuomintang, Chiang Kai-shek treated him with great respect throughout his life, and he dedicated his life to helping Chiang fight against the communists. Zhang Taiyan called him "a minor disciple of Kang Youwei and a Western slave at Sheng Xuanhuai's school," Hu Shi regarded him as one of the four major anti-logic thinkers in China's modern history, and Jiang Menglin described him as a dazzling comet in the Chinese academic world.