Table of Contents

• Introduction I:
• A Chinese Diplomat in the Cold War: Hu Shih’s View on International Politics
• Carlos Yu-Kai Lin
• Introduction II:
• Hu Shih’s Anti-Communist Thought
• Chih-ping Chou
• Chapter 1: “Do We Need or Want Dictatorship?”
• Chapter 2: “Family of Nations”
• Chapter 3: “The New Disorder in East Asia and the World at Large”
• Chapter 4: “China and the World War”
• Chapter 5: “Historical Foundations for a Democratic China”
• Chapter 6: “Ambassador Hu Shih Describes China’s Ten-Year Fight for Freedom, Struggle Against Aggression”
• Chapter 7: “The Conflict of Ideologies”
• Chapter 8: “The Chinese Revolution”
• Chapter 9: “China in Stalin’s Grand Strategy”
• Chapter 10: “The Free World Needs a Free China”
• Chapter 11: “Address to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, CA. in The Commonwealth, 1950”
• Chapter 12: “Why the Main War Will Be Fought in Asia-Not Europe”
• Chapter 13: “Communism in China”
• Chapter 14: “My Former Student, Mao Tse-tung”
• Chapter 15: Book review of John deFrancis’s Nationalism and Language Reform in China
• Chapter 16: “How to Understand a Decade of Rapidly Deteriorated Sino-American Relations”
• Chapter 17: “Communism, Democracy, and Culture Pattern”
• Chapter 18: “China Seven Years after Yalta”
• Chapter 19: “Suffering Chinese Intellectuals Behind the Iron Curtain”
• Chapter 20: “China in Distress”
• Chapter 21: “The Three Stages of the Campaign for Thought Reform in Communist China”
• Chapter 22: “‘Introduction’ to Liu Shaw-tong’s Out of Red China”
• Chapter 23: “‘Introduction’ to John Leighton Stuart’s Fifty Years in China”
• Chapter 24: “Communist Propaganda and the Fall of China”
• Chapter 25: “How Free is Formosa?”
• Chapter 26: “The Right to Doubt in Ancient Chinese Thought”
• Chapter 27: “The Importance of a Free China”
• Chapter 28: “Intellectual China Still Resistant to Communist Dictatorship: The Suffering Intellectuals in Red China”
• Chapter 29: “The Communist Regime in China is Unstable and Shaky”
• Chapter 30: “A Sum-up and a Warning”
• Chapter 31: “John Dewey in China”
• Chapter 32: “China’s Lesson for Freedom”
• Chapter 33: “The Conflict Between Man’s Right to Knowledge and the Security of the Community”
• Chapter 34: “The Chinese Tradition and the Future”

About the Author

Chih-p'ing Chou is Professor Emeritus of East Asian Studies at Princeton University.

Carlos Yu-Kai Lin is Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Translation at the City University of Hong Kong.

Reviews

"This book fills a lacuna for specialists on Hu Shih and historians of Sino-US relations."
--Choice--J. C. Kinkley "Choice"

"The essays collected here offer a very clear picture of Hu Shih's contribution to the English-speaking world's understanding of the modern Chinese political situation, traditional Chinese thought values, and China's place in the world."
--Josephine Chiu-Duke, University of British Columbia-- "Josephine Chiu-Duke"