Talk:Hu Shi

Improving this article
Hello, to anyone interested, I'm going to start trying to improve this article. Some orders of business include: removing the "Example Work" section, adding a photograph of Hu, etc. Regarding a photo, I've found what I think is a very good portrait of him, however I am as of yet unable to find its copyright status. It is at: and is owned by The Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library. TheSlowLife (talk) 00:57, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Hu Shi vs. Hu Shih
Something to think about: Hu Shi is the proper Hanyu Pinyin but when Hu was in the USA he went by Hu Shih. So he seems to have chosen Hu Shih to represent his name in the English language. TheSlowLife (talk) 01:07, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Agreed. Though Hu Shi is his name spelled in Hanyu Pinyin, we should go with the established spelling that he went by. Just as we write Chiang Kai-shek but not Jiang Jieshi; Chow Yun Fat and not Zhou Runfa; Lee Teng-hui and not Li Denghui. 61.224.43.221 (talk) 09:58, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Sample work
Here's the "Sample work" I removed from the main article. I don't think it's important, but a reference to a website that contains this could be useful. Since this is also in the history, if someone would rather have this deleted from the talk page, feel free.


 * "Don't You Forget"
 * (English translation of a poem by Hu, published in New Youth magazine, China 1915-1926, vol.5 no.3.)


 * My son,
 * I have taught you to love this country for twenty years,
 * But how can one love such a country!


 * Don't you forget:
 * It's our country's soldiers,
 * That made your Aunt suicide in shame,
 * And did the same to Ah Hsing,
 * And to your wife,
 * And shot Kao Sheng to death!


 * Don't you forget:
 * Who cut off your finger,
 * Who beat your father to a mess like this!
 * Who burned this village?
 * Oh, no! The fire is coming!
 * Go, for your own sake! Don't die with me!
 * Wait!


 * Don't you forget:
 * Your dying father only wished this country occupied,
 * By the Cossacks,
 * Or the Prussians,
 * Anyone!
 * Any life ever worse than -- this !?


 * Original poem: "你莫忘記/你莫忘记"


 * 我的兒/我的儿
 * 我二十年教你愛國/我二十年教你爱国，
 * 這國如何愛得/这国如何爱得！


 * 你莫忘記/你莫忘记：
 * 這是我們國家的大兵/这是我们国家的大兵，
 * 逼死了你三姨/逼死了你三姨，
 * 逼死了阿馨/逼死了阿馨，
 * 逼死了你妻子/逼死了你妻子，
 * 槍斃了高昇/枪毙了高升！


 * 你莫忘記/你莫忘记：
 * 是誰砍掉了你的手指/是谁砍掉了你的手指，
 * 是誰把你的老子打成了這個樣子/是谁把你的老子打成了这个样子！
 * 是誰燒了這一村/是谁烧了这一村，
 * 哎喲！火就要燒到這裡了/哎呦！火就要烧到这里了，
 * 你跑罷！莫要同我一起死！/你跑吧！莫要同我一起死！
 * 回來！/回來！


 * 你莫忘記/你莫忘记：
 * 你老子臨死時只指望快快亡國/你老子临死时只指望快快亡国：
 * 亡給『哥薩克』/亡给『哥萨克』，
 * 亡給『普魯士』/亡给『普鲁士』
 * 都可以/都可以
 * 人總該不至——如此！/人总该不至——如此！