I spent three weeks in China in November, visiting 11 universities in Hangzhou, Nanjing, Yangzhou, Suzhou and Shanghai, as well as the
Last weekend was Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai Branch.
Shantou University, next weekend it is Wuyi University in Jiangmen, and the weekend after that I go to Tianjin and Beijing for two weeks. I will visit Tianjin and Nankai Universities, and Peking and Tsinghua In the summer I will visit Guangzhou.
Universities.
In all these places they assure me that they want closer links with the UK and they want to continue sending young people to us for training (whatever the official line may be at the moment). The SEDC claims that China now has enough highly trained professors who can supervise PhD training, but I have not yet met a single university person who even bothers to repeat this slogan to me. I only get it from the provincial education functionnaries, and even then only from some provinces, actually, only Jiangsu.
I am getting a lot of good vibrations when I tell them of the Royal Society and British Academy K.C. Wong Fellowships and the new extensions to Europe through the CNRS and DAAD. We bring about 50 senior scholars to Europe each year under this programme, and the Chinese side are highly appreciative. They particularly appreciate the fact that these schemes are independent of the government and they do not require SEDC patronage to get them.
There
I am enormously encouraged by what I have seen, heard and learnt. is a lot for me to do. I some times wonder if I shouldn't actually be
I did a lot of work in working for the FCO instead of King's College. Taiwan too, where I spent 6 weeks at the National Taiwan University and got to talk to a large number of government and university people. been a fascinating time for me.
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Do let me know what you feel about my suggestions. I hope it is favourable, for I do want to keep this scheme afloat, despite the changes in Chinese policy.
Best wishes.
Yours sincerely,
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Dr Abraham S.-T. Lue