On Learning and Poetry for Twenty Years -- Correspondence Between Hu Shih and Yang Liansheng

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Features: In the 1940s, after Hu Shi resigned from his position as Ambassador to the United States, he met a group of younger scholars at Harvard, including Zhou Yiliang and Yang Lesheng, whom he highly valued and intended to invite back to Peking University to teach. Among them, Yang Lesheng was particularly close to Hu Shi, and their friendship deepened over time and remained lifelong. This book collects 205 exchanges of letters between Hu and Yang, spanning from 1943 to February 1962, just before Hu Shi's death. Over two decades of discussions on scholarship and poetry, they infused profound meaning into simplicity, demonstrating the deep bond between them as teacher and friend, reaching the highest level of mutual appreciation and unspoken understanding. These letters provide invaluable new materials for the history of modern Chinese scholarship.