Hu Cho-Jen may be the person who interviewed Joseph Needham: Hu Chü-Jen (胡菊人) of Chung Pao Monthly (Zhong bao yue kan 中報月刊)]. These letters relate to the return of gifts with the comment ‘it is not my practice to accept material rewards for giving the kind of interview, or engaging in the sort of conversation, which the five of us had together that day.’