Hu Shi

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Hu Shi was a prominent Chinese philosopher, essayist, and diplomat who championed literary reform and the use of vernacular Chinese, becoming a leading intellectual figure of early 20th-century China.

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Label Occurrences
Hu Shi canonical 9
Hu Shih 5
胡適 1

Statements (56)

Predicate Object
instanceOf diplomat
educator
essayist
historian of philosophy
human
literary theorist
philosopher
alternateName Hu Shi
surface form: Hu Shih
birthDate 1891-12-17
birthPlace Qing dynasty
surface form: Qing Empire

Shanghai
citizenship Republic of China
deathDate 1962-02-24
deathPlace Republic of China
surface form: Republic of China (Taiwan)

Taipei, Taiwan
surface form: Taipei
doctoralAdvisor John Dewey
educatedAt Columbia University
Cornell University
Peking University
era 20th-century philosophy
familyName Hu
fieldOfWork Chinese philosophy
intellectual history
literary criticism
givenName Shi
ideology liberalism
pragmatism
influenced Chinese New Culture intellectuals
modern Chinese literature
influencedBy John Dewey
pragmatism
knownFor advocacy of vernacular Chinese (baihua)
introducing pragmatism to Chinese philosophy
literary reform in early 20th-century China
language Chinese
English
memberOf Academia Sinica
Peking University
surface form: Peking University faculty
movement Chinese liberalism
May Fourth Movement
New Culture Movement
Baihua (vernacular written Chinese)
surface form: vernacular Chinese movement
name Hu Shi self-link
nationality Chinese
nativeName Hu Shi self-linksurface differs
surface form: 胡適
notableWork Outline of the History of Chinese Philosophy
Tentative Proposals for Literary Reform
The Chinese Renaissance
occupation diplomat
essayist
philosopher
university president
positionHeld Ambassador of China to the United States
surface form: Ambassador of the Republic of China to the United States

Chancellor of Peking University
President of Academia Sinica
President of Peking University

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# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Hu Shi
Description of subject: Hu Shi was a prominent Chinese philosopher, essayist, and diplomat who championed literary reform and the use of vernacular Chinese, becoming a leading intellectual figure of early 20th-century China.

Referenced by (15)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Liang Qichao influenced Hu Shi
Hu hasNotableBearer Hu Shi
Hu hasNotableBearer Hu Shi
this entity surface form: Hu Shih
New Youth editor Hu Shi
La Jeunesse editor Hu Shi
Hu Shi name Hu Shi self-link
Hu Shi nativeName Hu Shi self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: 胡適
Hu Shi alternateName Hu Shi
this entity surface form: Hu Shih
Cai Yuanpei notableStudent Hu Shi
this entity surface form: Hu Shih
Qian Xuantong influencedBy Hu Shi
this entity surface form: Hu Shih
Republican era of China significantFigure Hu Shi
this entity surface form: Hu Shih
Liang Rengong influenced Hu Shi
subject surface form: Liang Qichao