Editing Hu Shih (section)

=== Death and legacy ===
[[File:Hu Shih Hall, Cornell University, north facade.jpg|thumb|right|Hu Shih Hall at [[Cornell University]]]]
He died of a heart attack in [[Nangang District, Taipei|Nankang, Taipei]] at the age of 70, and was entombed in Hu Shih Park, adjacent to the Academia Sinica campus. That December, Hu Shih Memorial Hall was established in his memory.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mh.sinica.edu.tw/koteki/about1_1.aspx |script-title=zh:成立經過 |trans-title=Establishment process |access-date=27 June 2019 |script-quote=zh:同年十二月十日，管理委員會舉行第一次會議，紀念館宣告正式成立，開始布置。 |publisher=Academia Sinica |language=zh}}</ref> It is an affiliate of the Institute of Modern History at the Academia Sinica, and includes a museum, his residence, and the park. Hu Shih Memorial Hall offers audio tour guides in Chinese and English for visitors.

Hu Shih's work fell into disrepute in mainland China until an 1986 article written by [[Ji Xianlin]], "A Few Words for Hu Shih" ({{lang|zh|为胡适说几句话}}), acknowledged Hu Shih's mistakes. This article was sufficiently convincing to many scholars that it led to a re-evaluation of the development of modern Chinese literature.<ref name="fic">"[http://www.china.org.cn/english/NM-e/139052.htm Ji Xianlin: A Gentle Academic Giant]", china.org, 19 August 2005</ref> Selection 15 of the [[Putonghua Proficiency Test]] is a story about Hu Shih debating the merits of [[written vernacular Chinese]] over [[Literary Chinese]].<ref>Putonghua Shuiping Ceshi Gangyao. 2004. Beijing. pp. 362–363. {{ISBN|7100039967}}</ref>

Hu also claimed that India conquered China culturally for 2000 years via religion. At the same time, Hu criticized Indian religions for holding China back scientifically.<ref>{{cite book |last=Deepak |first=B. R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_fsOEAAAQBAJ&dq=hu+shih+india+centuries&pg=PA6 |title=India and China: Beyond the Binary of Friendship and Enmity |year=2020 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-9811595004 |page=6 |via=Google Books}}</ref>

Including [[redology]], he had a wide range of interests in literature, philosophy, history, textual criticism, and pedagogy. [[Feng Youlan]] criticized Hu for adopting a pragmatist framework and ignoring all the schools of Chinese philosophy before the [[Warring States period]]. Instead of simply laying out the history of Chinese philosophy, Feng claims that Hu made the reader feel as if "the whole Chinese civilization is entirely on the wrong track."<ref name="Yu1934" />{{sfn|Chou|2012|p=220}} Before Feng, Hu might have been the first to interpret the concept of the [[Tao]] through modern Western philosophy.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mou |first=Bo |title=The Routledge History of Chinese Philosophy |publisher=Routledge |year=2008 |isbn=978-1-134-24938-1 |page=220}}</ref>

As "one of [[Cornell University]]'s most notable Chinese alumni",<ref name="Friedlander" /> Hu has several honors there, including the Hu Shih Professorship and Hu Shih Distinguished lecture.<ref name="Friedlander" /> '''Hu Shih Hall''', a {{convert|103835|sqft|sqm|adj=on}} residence hall, was dedicated at Cornell in 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hu Shih Hall |url=https://scl.cornell.edu/residential-life/housing/campus-housing/first-year-undergraduates/residence-halls/hu-shih-hall |access-date=24 October 2022 |website=Student & Campus Life, Cornell University}}</ref><ref name="Friedlander" />