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A Pragmatist and His Free Spirit

The Half-Century Romance of Hu Shi and Edith Clifford Williams

A Pragmatist and His Free Spirit( )
Author: Egan, Susan Chan
Chou, Chih-p'ing
ISBN:978-962-996-341-5
Publication Date:Jun 2009
Publisher:Chinese University of Hong Kong, The
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $49.95
Book Description:

A Pragmatist and His Free Spirit portrays the unconventional love of Hu Shi, a Chinese social reformer and civil rights pioneer, and Edith Clifford Williams, an American avant-garde artist of the early twentieth century. Hu studied at Cornell University, where he first met Williams, and Columbia University, where he worked with the famous pragmatist John Dewey. At the time of his death in 1962, he and Williams had exchanged more than 300 letters that, along with poems and...
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Book Details
Pages:410
Detailed Subjects: History / Asia / China
Family & Relationships / General
Political Science / World / Asian
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):1.52 x 2.29 x 0.15 cm
Book Weight:1.406 Kilograms



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