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IN ARMY"
as Mencius pointed out long ago, "We have other gen- THE NEW DIRECTOR of the China Institute
there is
more something much
ferals like Wavell and we important is leaving for
than mere in London, Dr. H. H. Chang, who
pront. There are human values of per- have other troops in this England in the near future, in a broadcast in
manent signifleance without an Chinese over ZEK, said that recent developments understanding of which the de- island training for their sire for mere profit easily degen- job, who, when their time in the field of literature have given rise to the hope
erates into jealousy, rivalry, egotism and conflict. The 18th comes, are not going to be that the spirit of the 18th century may be revived
century may have only a faint left behind by Wavell's in Anglo-Chinese cultural relations.
and distant appeal to many of us, men," said Field-Marshal and yet I think that period was
"As Director of the China Institute," he said, "it will be my pleasant duty to encourage closer intel- lectural cooperation and to promote cultural rela- tions between China and Britain,
111
the
Will The
hol nature of the ease be spectacular It will not either be exciting when nation. 1 Wan natially their attention to the exploits of ara plane and battleships and the
the i bravery of their soldiers at front
But there IN nevertheles steadily growing realisating that between two such nations as Chama harl have and England which such close contact with each other j for over a century in business, and polities and which to-day lighting side by side, as if for the defence of the
vilsatio1. pratemples democracy mid freedom as they ate popularly known, there shoulitį
of
are
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Chief Manager
BRANCHES:-
one of the happiest periods in the Sir Cyril Deverell, a form- relationship between China and
er Chief of the Imperial on Me S H. Dodwell, Hun M. & F. Shelda, Europe in general and between China and Britain in particula General Staff, at Aber- Trade was then only hovering in
dare. the background and gave no 1-
"They are determined to show,' enormous pro-i diention of the portions which it assumed at the he went on, "that we are not only Bangkok
tr China and stickers,' but that we now have a succeeding centua v Europe met at all, they met on a highly trained and well-equipped
Chin understanding and practising co high plane of mutual artistic and Army, capable of offensive action. intellectual appreciation,
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3 To advise Chinese students as to the course of study in the Limited Kingdon, To encourage and facilitare the teaching of the Chinese Language and literature at the universities of the United marvelled at the advanced stige operation with the other Services
und and cayuble of carrying on to such when mathematleat of Europe's
enemy's power Kingdom by the endowment astronomical science while Europe lengths that our for those purposes of pro-was struck by China's supreme will be broken, giving him no rest i fleetan fessorships and lectures, and
sensibilities as revealed or respite until final victory artistic in her porcelain, Generally te encourage
gardening close intellectual coepera- tion and to promote cultural relations between China and The United Kingdom
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SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES of various TRUSTEE and EXECUTOR business Hong Kong, 26th February, 1941 undertaken
furniture and achieved."
The world had the well as by
which sanity of her social and political what could be done by an air in-
never,vasion on a large scale were divorced from moral or ethical such an invasion had to be carried gpiods in Local and Other Currencies considerations. The contributions out on a country strongly defend- which Chinese thought made toed both on the ground and in the
tration.listic air, with the fighting forces backed jsizes Tu Let. the development and fthers Lunking megeliately by a determined civilian popula- before the French Revolution istion, extreme difficulties faced the
invader. dhe reper each other's point of view and offs which has become mereas. Į generally recognised
imply important, and that is why the human values which
the need was felt to appoint diree or who, among other thins, will be expected to feelure exten- 114t
sively
be
understanding
051
shape!
the pallen of our
live..
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I feel that my ability Is
But ertum e equal to the task
ly
ambassado
Lanton, In quo Tar-chi who is returning a. China's new Foreign Minister, The ph nine years of meant it! labot has fuid so fiam a font. tion for Sung-British understand
To getterations to ev213.5 ang the
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Who will say that this was not the tinyersaties a happy period when intercourse consistent y and elsewhere in the United King-Was maintained on a
un- contempor Cimba, high cultural level with an Cheese art and history.
Whale fading effort being made to find cach and absorb I believe a number of the aet, ut, appraise fees at the Institute must pandore-
adhe's spiritual accomplishments” become limited under the halon e appéul, let me add, was een- of the war, this last papo e has, hat and not peripheral, essential word exotic trot
The becomes important, I
thank, te Land
of the WAS A MIELE "exoter m" For the vJE! cause of the wor
later periodi we all know, is bestag #ught, wat de sierip of a
The When Europe' craving for beau- *** than one Front
a physical, but there i abo aty, as Pater sail, demanded the "strangeness " But bobs such view, Tar long record
And it impera- Jelement
which is strange its Chu
envoy is rudiked by suuritual side
which an appeal
ext tie is sickly and can only be many not ble actieven,ms which tive that those countring have all helped to bring Chin e fighting for the same rettesons.
no matter where the theatre of ephemeral, while China's appeal only and England together t
to Britain was made during one war may be, should
only i knowindge and understanding
render to one another the fullest of the most robust periods of Eng- but also H feeling. sympathy
It was the age dom- material assistance, but shouldlish letters. and sentiment.
also pool together their spiritualiated by Johnson and Pope, by Goldsmith and Reynolds. These resources and establish a harmony
artists and men of letter thought and community of purposes. The exhibition of Chinese art Literature, art, philosophy, his-that they had discovered in Chin-To pay a dividend of 6% for the Cumulative Preterred tory. may
distant sound
and se culture that element of sanity years 1928, 1929, 1930 and 1931 in
and urbanity which is after all on 49,589 at the Burlington Gallery
hollow when there is So much 1935, to mention one out of many |
the central note of the classical Ordinary Shares: £59,506 16s. Od. To transfer to General Reserve: such events, has left a deep and sound and fury of clashing wea-
the pons, but I believe they should spirit and were therefore anxious'
10 1941: forward impression
To carry become supremely real precisely to know all that could be known $180,000 Os. Od. British mtud. It was the same because there is a clash. For war about Chinese thought, difficult as
any ade- £17,559 13s. Id. vision which has helped to raise
on the sub- - the China Institute to its present brushes aside for the moment the, it then was to obtain
of quate information ordinary, easy complacencies
jeet. the centre important position as
life and compels each of us to con- cultural effort
When the industrial age came, of Chinese
duct a searching analysis of our
however, which brought China England.
mind and heart. It makes US
and Britain physically much the basis of The Institute is the headquar- re-examine
closer together, understanding be- beliefs and prejudices and throws China Universities' ters of the
tween the two countries, instead convictions essential
of becoming Committee which was incorporat-
proportionately I much bolder relief. I believe
much became actually ed by Royal Charter in 1933 as
less real. For the thinner and the result of an Act of Parlia- between China and Britain there deeper.
had dis- of reverence The charter en rusted the is a similarity in their basic con-
the principles spirit Committee with the administra-victions and in
our appeared, and without reverence tion of a fund derived from the upon which we have built
All the true knowledge of the mind and heart ís an impossible thing. British Boxer Indemnity and laid respective civilisations.
more reason therefore that We down the following
The last generation, 1 am happy purposes
compre- which the committee must carry should have to-day a
hensive
to say, has given hopes that the understanding of the! best products of the thinking of spirit of the 18th century might
be revived. Books have To arrange for such Chinese our two countries.
written by leaders of thought, by men and women to visit and
G. Lowes Dickinson, Mr. Laur- lecture in the United King-
ence Binyon, Mr. Arthur Waley dom, and for such British
and, not the least, by Mr. Fitz- That understanding. if I muy men and women to visit and
very much vitiated gerald which show how earnestly lecture in China
as may say so, was
a search is being made to under- the Committee by an undue emphasis on trade
the bases of Chinese and profit which characterised stand Anglo-Chinese relationship during thought. Personally I see no rea- 2. To assist Chinese students the 19th, century. But I believe son why these writers should not and intellec- going to the United King- the tide has now definitely turn-be taken as auguries for another don to find hospitality and ed. It is true we cannot ignore period of cultural
and profit, but between tual understanding between China suitable living accommoda- trade
| nations as between individuals, and Britain greater perhaps than
anything that has happened.
ment.
out:
seem
suitable;
tion;
tu
in
our
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