(a)
(b)
(c)
Note en Hong Kong University.
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The Secretary of State as the Committee -
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To "suggest any special line of inquiry that the University
should be advised to purm
For "guidance or information regarding the possibility and
desirability of attracting Chinese students from Hong Kong
to British Universities and workshopa."
"Regarding steps that might generally be taken at home for
bringing the intellectual life of Great Britain and China
(Hongkong) into closer contact*,
Twenty years ago as Governor of Hong Kong I was deeply
impressed with the immense effect which was being produced in China
by the returned Chinese graduates from America,
(1)
Folitically, Imbued with ultra-democratic theories of a
Western type they inculcated the Chinese youth in the
Collages with revoluntionary ideas, and in my view wore in
the main cause of the Revolution and 20 years of subsequent
Civil #ar.
(2)
Sconomically,
Graduates from American Universities with
engineering degrees were eagerly sought after for the
Railways and every other kind of Public Works which at that
time were being feverishly pushed forward, These young ren
were familiar only with American methods and used only
American standards and designs. Naturally, therefore, ald
orders were placed with American firms of which they had
confident knowledge.
America: encouraged Chinese students to go to American Universities.
They were made much of there. The Boxer Indemnity was remitted and
used for this purpose.
The British feeling was the rev eree. Not only were Chinese discourage
from going to England, but there was (and still is to some extent,