The Memoirs of Hu Shih by Te-kong Tong, a professor at Columbia University and CUNY. Tong was a renowned historian with specialty in oral history. Hu Shi (1891 - 1962) was a graduate of Cornell University, a renowned scholar, philosopher, and diplomat. He was an advocate of vernacular Chinese, took part in Chinese language reform and promoted liberalism in post-imperial China. In Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.