On Learning and Poetry: Correspondence Between Hu Shi and Yang Liansheng

Author: Hu Shih Memorial Hall
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Publish Date: 2001-08-01
Features: "Twenty Years of Discourse on Learning and Poetry" includes the correspondence between Hu and Yang over sixteen years. These letters can reflect the private friendship between the two and provide extremely valuable new materials for the history of modern Chinese academia. In the 1940s, after Hu Shih resigned from his post as Ambassador to the United States, he met a group of younger scholars at Harvard, including Zhou Yiliang and Yang Liansheng, whom he highly regarded and intended to invite back to Peking University to teach. Among them, Yang Liansheng was particularly close to Hu Shih and their friendship lasted a lifetime. This book collects 205 exchanges of letters between Hu and Yang, spanning from 1943 to February 1962, just before Hu Shih's death. "Twenty Years of Discourse on Learning and Poetry" embodies profound wisdom in simplicity, testifying to the deep bond between the two as teachers and friends, reaching the highest level of mutual appreciation and unspoken understanding. These letters provide extremely valuable new materials for the history of modern Chinese academia.