The early years of the Republican period in China
were so confused politically that those outside China
failed to discern the intellectual and social changes talcing
place within the country, and it is only recently that
Western scholars have begun to take more notice of them.
Doubtless, names such as Hu Shih and Lin Yutang are familiar
to the West, especially America, where they received their
higher education and lived for many year3. Hu Shih
especially was known for his leadership of the literary
revolution in China, and both he and Lin Yutang were
connected with the New Culture Movement in China. But there
were others who shared in this intellectual leadership in
the 1920*8 and 1930’s, among whom were Ts’ai Yuan-p’ei,
Ch’en Tu-hsiu, Li Ta-chao, Lu Hsun, Chou Tso-^en and Mao
Tun, to name a few
