Hi everyone,

Following up on Joseph W. Esherick's "Tracking an Iconic Photograph" (PRC History 1, no. 3, Dec. 2015), I feel compelled to write this self-criticism because I have been mistakenly using a different iconic photo circulating on the internet.  I don't remember how I originally found the image, but I've been using it on PowerPoint slide in my modern China class to discuss Chen Duxiu and Hu Shih, even asking the students to analyze the mens' clothing and bearing.  Two days ago, after a fruitful discussion about gowns, top hats, canes, glasses, and leather shoes, an undergraduate named Walter approached me and said, "That's not Chen Duxiu, it's Hu Xiansu."  He showed me Hu Xiansu's Wikipedia page.  I thanked him, promised I would look into it, and...it looks like Walter was right:

http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_4c2373c30102vkoa.html

http://wap.sciencenet.cn/blogview.aspx?id=943544

Many Chinese books, as well as the New World Encyclopedia online, reproduce this error, confirming Esherick's point that scholars should treat photos as critically as we treat textual sources.  Time to revise my lecture slides.  Hu Xiansu des erves it.  

误传广泛的“陈独秀”（左，其实是植物学家胡先骕；右是胡适）