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By 1936, Lee’s close friend Hu Shih, a Chinese intellectual, was asking her what had become of her dreams.

The model for a bust of a “man from eastern China” was Dr. Hu Shih, the diplomat and scholar who helped establish the modern Chinese script.

He mentions Prof Hu Shih - who studied at Columbia 100 years ago and then returned to Peking University - as a "standard bearer" for Chinese liberalism.

The institute was founded in 1926 by a group of Chinese and American educators, including John Dewey and Hu Shih, to foster a deeper understanding of China in the United States.

During his first 20 years as a teacher, mostly at Peking National University, Hu Shih sharply attacked the one-party government of Chiang Kaishek, but when the choice had to be made between the Chinese Communists and the Nationalists, the philosopher and the Generalissimo were reconciled.