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with whom she is clearly still in contact, have continued to make a nuisance of themselves and several of them have been in the courts again recently because of their attempt to hold a demonstration on May Day this year. They have also been involved in a campaign, so far rather muted, to stir up protest about human rights inside China, which in the present political situation here is tantamount to supporting the efforts of the regime in Taivan to prevent any normalization of relations between Peking and Washington. The Communists have noted this campaign with disfavour.
5.
I can vell see that you may have a public relations problem in providing a reasonable defence if you r fuse the grant. All I can suggest is that if you consider the Ungers' case is marginal on developmental grounds, then you stick to that argument. But if pressed, I suppose you could add with some effect that the subject of the proposed research was a village in China, but it appeared that the applicants were intending to rely for their information entirely on sources who had left China (in most cases illegally, I might say although there is no need to rub the salt in) and there was no indication that they would have been able to gain access to the village itself or enjoy the cooperation of the Chinese authorities. If they retort that the latter is out of the question, you could point out that a number of quite good studies have taken place inside China recently 1 am thinking particularly of the excellent work by jan hyrdal (the son of Junnar Hyrdal) on a Froduction Team near Yenan, which 1 believe is now being filmed, and also some research by a development economist at Cambridge called Dr Suzy Paine who was in China about three years ago. Moreover, there are a number of scholars at the Hong Kong universities (especially Chinese University) in the Social Sciences field who have obtained permission to do field work in Avangtung Province across the border fræ. Hong Kong. if the Ungers vere to have Ch nese support for their research, their chances of getting a grant would, I presume, be rather
better.
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I am afraid that this may not be much help to you, but as we see it, this is really a problem for the British
overment rather than Hong Kong, since it is British Government funds that are at stake and the political repercussions if the grant is made or not made, will fall as much on London as on the Hong Kong overment.
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