Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t6.1

v2.c15.s2.t6.1

Popularly known as the Father of Chinese Literary Revolution, Hu Shi was a leading philosopher, writer, educationist, and diplomat of modern China. He was a key leader of the New Culture Movement (1916-1919) contributing to the establishment of vernacular Chinese (*Baihua*) as an accepted writing style, and to the beginning of an impassioned intellectual debate on modernity and liberalism.