A Pragmatist and His Free Spirit: The Half-Century Romance of Hu Shi & Edith Clifford Williams

by Chih-p'ing Chou and Susan Chan Egan

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9629963418
• ISBN13: 9789629963415
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.3" x 7.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher