Power of Freedom : Hu Shih's Political Writings / edited by Chih-p'ing Chou and Carlos Yu-Kai Lin.
Material type: TextLanguage: English, Chinese Series: China Understandings Today | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2022Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
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- online resource
- 9780472903610
- Hu, Shi, 1891-1962
- Hu, Shi, 1891-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation
- International relations
- Democracy
- Communism and international relations
- Communism
- Democracy -- China -- History -- 20th century
- Communism -- China -- History -- 20th century
- Communism and international relations -- China -- History -- 20th century
- United States
- China
- China -- Relations -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Dr. Hu Shih (1891–1962) was one of China’s top scholars and diplomats and served as the Republic of China’s ambassador to the United States during World War II. As early as 1941, Hu Shih warned of the fundamental ideological conflict between dictatorial totalitarianism and democratic systems, a view that later became the foundation of the Cold War narrative. In the 1950s, after Mao’s authoritarian regime was established, Hu Shih started to analyze the development and nature of Communism, delivering a series of lectures and addresses to reveal what he called Stalin’s “grand strategy” for facilitating the International Communist Movement. For decades—and today to a certain extent—Hu Shih’s political writings were considered sensitive and even dangerous. As a strident critic of the Chinese Communist Party’s oligarchical practices, he was targeted by the CCP in a concerted national campaign to smear his reputation, cast aspersions on his writings, and generally destroy any possible influence he might have in China. This volume brings together a collection of Hu Shih’s most important, mostly unpublished, English-language speeches, interviews, and commentaries on international politics, China-U.S. relations, and the International Communist Movement. Taken together, these works provide an insider’s perspective on Sino-American relations and the development of the International Communist Movement over the course of the 20th century.
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