Tehyi Hsieh: Teddy Roosevelt of China speaks

              DR. TEHYI HSIEH



TEDDY ROOSEVELT OF CHINA SPEAKS—


NEW YORK TRIBUNE




Tehyi Hsieh, abandoning hereditary riches for a career of helpfulness and progress, becomes an outstanding figure on The New China




The blood of China's ancient aristocracy and the spirit of her modern democratic movements are united in the person of Dr. Hsieh, who has been speaking to New England audiences on the subject of America's relations with the people of the Chinese Republic.




Dr. Hsieh has been variously characterized as 
The Compers of the Cathay,
 
The Great Democrat,
 
The Chinese Rowan,
 as he has traveled from country to country, but, since the purpose of his present visit to the U. S. A. is to convince Americans that China's Greatest need is to be 
Rooseveltized,
 the best expression, perhaps is the one which has been most frequently used in describing him, 
The Roosevelt of China.
 * * * Although all his life associated with nobility of China, he is pronounced in the assertion that the Chinese are determined to have a republic form of government and that the only hope for the national life of the people lies in the democratic institution which a republic represents.  (He is one of fourth rank blue button Mandarin.)—


Boston Transcript.




I know Hsieh, and if I tell a little I know about him—he is an able and exceptionally eloquent champion of young China crowd.  If he continues his good work, he will some day be numbered among the immortal workers for the rejuvenation of China.
—
WU TING FANG.




Dr. Hsieh has been acclaimed by press and civic organizations as well as representative leading men, from coast to coast, as the most enthusiastic, inspiring speaker ever to represent the newly awakened China.  (Press 
comments speak for themselves.
)
—
Men's Club, 
Filene's Eche.




Speaks unusually well, in fact speaks better English than does the average American.—


Public Ledger, Phila.




Dr. Hsieh created enthusiasm everywhere he spoke.
—
Pres. Murlin, Boston University.




His address was replete with humor, keen in wit, rich in imagery at once informative and inspiring.
—
President Southwick, Emerson College of Oratory.




He is a magnetic speaker.  He put the Club right on their toes.
—
Pilgrim Pub. Assn.




He is a live-wire with a magazine of facts and figures at his disposal.—


Boston Herald.




Teddy Roosevelt of China
 reveals startling ways of China's advancement.  He is one of the youngest and the most eloquent statesmen of China.  In one sentence Hsieh expresses the whole philosophy of his life 
Some day I shall die, China must live forever.
—


Boston Post.




He told first of the great difficulties encountered by Chinese students in acquiring the English language and gave some very amusing anecdotes in illustration.  ********* With gent enthsiasm the speaker told how the ports had been opened to the world, of how Buddhist Temples had been turned into school:  also of the radical change in the intellect of the people, which had led to the changes in the alphabet and establishing a new banking system.  Dr. Hsieh closed by saying the liberation of China had come through the outstretched hand and fellowship of America.  His words were followed with deep interest and there was much applause from those privileged to hear him.  *** A silken flag of stars ana strip was presented to Dr. Hsieh in token of his patriotic work in America, which he promises to entwine with Rainbow flag of China.
—


Boston Transcript.




Dr. Hsieh, who has acquired the popular sobriquet of 
The Theodors Roosevelt of China,
 needs no introduction to a Waltham audience.  He has spoken in this city on previous occasions ana has come to be regarded as one of the most enthusiastic, dynamie and inspiring exponents of awakened China.
—


Waltham Evening News.




Hsieh a 'precursor,' a first scout to help establish a new set of relationships between American and Chinese.  He is the most brilliant Chinese representative of the best set of young China.
—


Daily News,
 Chicago.




Dr. Tehi Hsieh, patriot, scholar, advocate, formerly in the diplomatic corps of the Chinese old regime, is one of the outstanding progressive Chinese leaders in the U. S. A.  * * * He is well known throughout the United States as a lecturer on Far Eastern affairs.  His intimate contact with English-speaking peoples, both in England and America, in South Atrica and Australia has fitted him to interpret the developments in his own nation and these of the Orient, generally, to the American people.  At the present time Dr. Hsieh is aiding in a drive for the women's colleges of the Orient.—


Christian Science Monitor.




Dr. Hsieh, one of China's most scholarly and eloquent representatives, speaks excellent English, is forceful and convincing.  At Poor Richard Club his address brought the audience of about a thousand people to its feet, oheering.
—
Boston City Club (Auditorium).




Dr. Hsieh (often called the 
Roosevelt of China
) is in this country to study industrial relations * * *.  He speaks English Fluently, has traveled extensively and is an example of the modern and best young men of China, that country of 480,000.000 people just aroused to the possibilities of their own land.
—
Algonquin Club, Beston.




Dr. Hsieh has made a life-long study of internal conditions in China and of China's relations to the nations of the West.  He has executed many important diplomatic missions for his country.  The Harvard Club feels honored in extending its hospitality to so eminent a guest
—
Harvard Club Bulletin.




One of the most cultured as well as wittiest visitors Toronto has had in many a day is Dr. Tehyi Hsieh of China, who is making a tour of Canada in the cause of international good-will.  Dr. Hsieh, in addition to much Oriental lore, knows the Occident better than most of us.  He is a graduate of Cambridge, and has had wide diplomatic experience on both sides of the Atlantic.  He is typical of young China, which now is rapidly taking over all that rightly belongs to China from the enfeebled hands of these of the old regime.  We all might learn a good deal from this brilliant representative of China.—


Toronto Globe, Editorial.




Dr. Hsieh, who speaks English with what to most of us seemed like painful fluency, has a fascinating personality:  and, in an address lasting scarcely an hour, really opened our eyes to the golden commercial opportunities in China that are ours for the asking.  Those who heard him were thrilled and have a forward-looking China in their minds.  
His message of good will, delivered as he only can deticer it himself, should be heard by all Americans.
—


Richmond Evening Dispatch, Editorial.




Roosevelt of China' makes most enviable name for himself throughout America in his mission making friends for China.  Hsieh has been widely heralded as a better English speaker than most Americans, who have penchant for addresses.  His English diction is perfect, but he does not hesitate when the necessity arises to use 
slang.
 the better to illustrate his point.—


Boston Herald.




Noted Chinese an Impressive Speaker at City Club Auditorium.
  Eulogised by John C. Fergusen, advor to Chinese Government, who said upon such men as Hsieh are reflected all the enormous possibilities of awakening China.  * * * Hrieh in his illuminating address shows inherent genius of an unusually clever Chinese story-teller


—
Boston Traveler.




Famous Chinese Orator talks to Rotarians



Dr' Hsieh proved a veritable dynamo in action, and after warming up his audience with bumorous comments upon the differences between America and China, made a masterful plea for trade between the two countries, for as be sees it, it will be America, hacked by China, who will keep the peace of the Pacifie.  At the close of his speech, which ended with a burst of eloquence such as is seldom heard in Kirkeville, the Rotarians crowded around him to congratulate him, although the luncheon had well run past 1 P. M.


—
Daily Press.
 Kirksville, Mo.




Address:  {Chinese Trade and Labor Bureau
247 State St., Boston, Mass.


FIgure



I'm no more than what you think me to be; But I'm all that you believe I can be.




T. Hsieh




Reprinted from The Lyceum Magazine of Christmas Number, 1923




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