A Study On Hu Shih’s Early Thought From The Stuggle

This Paper take The Struggle which is the vernacular Chinese newspapers of the Late Qing Dynasty as the starting point,to make an consideration on HuShih’s early thinking depends on his edit and articles.in order to make an investigation of his editing thought, improved thinking, and literature practice,as well as the factor of his early thinking.As an intellectual to enlight the people of the late Qing Dynasty in his early years,When Hu Shih worked as an editor for The Struggle,it is a relationship between the superior and the inferior,This paper not merely an explanation of his editing features,but also an explanation of the contradictory relationship between the expectation of the improver and the acceptation of the doggery.Then this paper take the articles of Hu Shih published on The Struggle as the object of study,selectively analysised how himself participate in this transformation of enlightenment,and how the idea influence his whole life work.He used two methods to enlight the doggery,it is "destroy"and "establishment",he strongly criticized the old customs and the Savage thoughts,and called for the virtues which were not exist in China,and all these were manifestation of the influences to him. What’s more,this paper give an explanation to the causes of his early thinking,it is the cultural environment of Huizhou City,new educational system of Shanghai,and the well known friends he meat in the Chinese public schools,made him to be a culture man.Compared to the idea of his fame, it is not mature enough of his early years thinking.It is easily impact by the time. Taking its strengths to rescue China.The most significant purpose of this Paper is to master the transformation of his idea,and what’s more,to seek the continuity between the transformation of the thought in late Qing dynasty and May Fourth movement.