‘OUR ATTITUDE TOWARD MODERN CIVILAZTION OF THE WEST’

The greatest unexpected answer upon the conspiracy of the western modernized civilization and the spiritually enhanced eastern civilization proceeded from the analyst of the west, Hu Shi. The harmful satire of ridicule upon the Western civilization while recognized as materialistic created on the infrastructure of the hunt for the satisfaction of humanity, not just the pleasure of a small scale, but indeed to the intangible requests of mankind. As the Eastern civilizations so called Orientals recognized as the spiritual upon us, who dealt with inhumanity and humiliation of opposing occidental dominance. The oriental significance was more compassionate and less consumerist then the people of the Western civilization. Hu Shi (1891-1962), born in Shanghai, raised by enclosed ring of poverty surrounding his mother, due to the death of his father as a young child. “At the age of nineteen, he received a scholarship to study at Cornell University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy, and later at Columbia University, where he worked towards a doctorate”1. Hu Shi returned to his country in 1917, “He joined the Beijing University faculty.”2 As the return of Hu Shi, it was the rise in intellectuals to engage one another in a high prioritized debate on the culture, history and philosophy unclosing associated issues, all concerning the troubled complication of China’s weakness and the practical solutions to the difficulty, as Hu return was a crucial point within Chinese identity. Hu Shi returned to the United States, “After serving as ambassador to the United States between 1938 and 1943, he returned to China in 1946 to serve as chancellor of Beijing University”3
For the purpose as to why Hu Shi has proposed such a dispute, is “ Hu answers the argument that traditional Chinese values were more humane and less materialistic than those of the west, and hence more beneficial to humankind’s spiritual development.”4 What Hu Shi is presenting is for the reader

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