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Hu Shih

"In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding."

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"In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding."

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"Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights."
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"After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country."
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"Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists."
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"Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people."
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"The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development."
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"But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious."
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"On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people."
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"The rise of the dramas in the thirteenth century, and the rise of the great novels in a later period, together with their frank glorification of love and the joys of life, may be called the Third Renaissance."
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"The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture."
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"For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples."
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