I. Family and Early Life The People of Hui-chou My Family－the Hu Clan of Shang-chuang, Chi-hsi My Father II. Student Days in the United States (1910-1917) Meeting People of Different Faiths－My Early Student Life at Cornell University My Interest in American Politics From Agriculture to Philosophy, Various Reasons I Became a Trained Public Speaker My Training in Parliamentary Procedures Cosmopolitanism, Pacifism, and Internationalism the Political Faith of a Young Student Columbia University (1915-1917) John Dewey and Pragmatism The Pragmatic Theory of Thinking Development of the Hu Shih Methodology Thinking of a Language Reform in China Some Accidents that Led to a Revolution A Lonely Literary Experimental Work and a Revolutionary Manifesto III. Working for a Chinese Renaissance The Outbreak of a Literary Revolution and Its Achievement Some Characteristics of the Literary Revolution The Chinese Renaissance and Its Fourfold Meaning A Political Intervention: “The May 4th Movement” “Science” and “Democracy” Correctly Defined “Concrete Problems V. Abstract Isms”: My First Clash with the Marxists A Systematic Study of China’s Cultural Heritage “A History of Chinese Philosophy” and Its Subsequent Researches, Particularly on Ch’an Buddhism Historical Research in the Popular Novel (1922-1933) Some Concluding Remarks on the Progress and Setbacks of the Chinese Renaissance Movement Glossary