Before Hu Shi decided to leave Peiping, the China * * * Production Party radio station in Xishan area had clearly announced that as long as Hu Shi did not leave Peiping and go with Chiang Kai-shek, China * * * guaranteed that Hu Shi would remain the president of Peking University and the director of Beijing Library after the liberation of Peiping. Colleagues and subordinates of Peking University also advised Hu Shi to stay, but Hu Shi just shook his head and decided to go.
Hu Shi's creative background His article expounds the difference between old and new literature from the perspective of creative theory, advocates the creation of new literature, translates some works of French Dude, Mo Bosang and Norwegian Ibsen, and takes the lead in creating vernacular literature. His vernacular poems published in 19 17 are the first batch of new poems in the history of modern literature.
After the May Fourth Movement, he parted ways with intellectuals who accepted Marxism, such as Li Dazhao and Chen Duxiu, and started with the "dispute between problems and ism" and advocated improvement, so that he never talked about politics for twenty years; No politics for 20 years.
Hu Shi's academic activities in his life were mainly in literature, philosophy, history, textual research, education and redology. His main works are Outline of China's Philosophy History (I), Collection of Trial Works, History of Vernacular Literature (I) and Hu Shi's Wen Cun (four episodes). His greatest academic influence is to advocate the method of "bold hypothesis and careful verification".