My Early Education

In 1931, Hu Shih was turning forty, and began writing his autobiography. In a language simple and plain - the vernacular style he had advocated in 1917 for the New Culture Movement - he remembered his childhood.Fatherless from an early age, Hu Shih received an excellent education in Jixi, Anhui, thanks to his mother's adamant teaching. It was an education not only in becoming a classical scholar, but in becoming a tolerant person.A bilingual edition in English and French (translated from the Chinese), this book is part of the Luminary Collection.