The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture. Hu Shih Read Quote
Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people. Hu Shih Read Quote
India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border. Hu Shih Read Quote
And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools. Hu Shih Read Quote
It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood. Hu Shih Read Quote
No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India. Hu Shih Read Quote
In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding. Hu Shih Read Quote
The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development. Hu Shih Read Quote
It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be. Hu Shih Read Quote
The rise of the dramas in the thirteenth century, and the rise of the great novels in a later period, together with their frank glorification of love and the joys of life, may be called the Third Renaissance. Hu Shih Read Quote
