Hu Shi's Model of Rhetorical Pragmatic Argumentation. Issue 2 (4th May 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Butterfield, Rya
• Is Part Of: Advances in the history of rhetoric. Volume 22:Issue 2(2019)
• Page Start: 139
• Page End: 152
• Publication Date: 2019-05-04
• Subjects: Rhetoric -- History -- Periodicals; 808.009
• DOI: 10.1080/15362426.2019.1618053
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1536-2426

Abstract

ABSTRACT: During China's Republican Period, scholar and reformer Hu Shi advanced a rhetorical pragmatic project for democratic reform. In this essay, I argue that the dissertation Hu wrote under the advisement of John Dewey, "The Development of Logical Method in Ancient China, " was itself a groundbreaking piece of rhetorical invention that functioned as part of Hu's project by reinterpreting ancient Chinese classics as the foundations for a model of rhetorical pragmatic argumentation.