Stamp SN | B234 |
Stamp Name | Commemorative 234 100th Birthday of Hu Shih Commemorative Issue (1990) |
Stamp Cat Standard | Commemorative Stamps |
Stamp Cat | Literature, Literature, Education, Individuals |
Issue date | 1990-12-17 |
Suspersion date | 民國81年12月17日 |
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Printer | China Engraving & Printing Works, R.O.C. |
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Designer | |
Photographer | |
Engraver | Wang Shuh-shin |
Creative Director | |
Sheet composition | 10×10 |
Print color | |
Process | Intaglio |
Paper | Locally-made mat finished, watermarked stamp paper with gum |
Back | |
Perforation | 13 |
Hu Shih (1891-1962), born and educated in Shanghai, went to the U.S.A. in 1910 and gained a B.A. from Cornell University and a Ph. D from Columbia. Returning to China in 1917, he served first as professor and then as President of the National Peking University. He was appointed China's wartime Ambassador to the U.S.A. (1938-1942) and President of the Academia Sinica in Taiwan (1958-1962).
Hu Shih is best known as the prime mover of the Chinese Literary Revolution - a movement which aims at the adoption of the living spoken tongue of the people to replace the difficult classical language in literature, writing as well as education. Hu Shih was the first man to write and publish a volume of poems composed in the spoken language. He also advocated application of the scientific methods in the research of great Chinese classical writings and novels. His main writings include, Outline of the History of Chinese Philospphy, The Cllected Writings of Hu Shih, History of Spoken Chinese Literature.