72
5
71
4
Chinese Students in Great Britain
factor of any study-and this is also perhaps the best way in which to learn the essentials of the subject.
TOTAL: 450.
I. Homes:
China ...
Hongkong Malaya
STATISTICS
British West Indies and British
Guiana
Burma
Java
Australia, Indo-China, etc.
II. "Centres":
1. London
2. Edinburgh..
3. Cambridge...
4. Manchester
5. Oxford
Plymouth Liverpool
Birmingham
240 (London, 140; Edinburgh, 20;
Manchester, 13)
35 (London, 20)
120 (London, 60; Edinburgh, 30)
25
10
1.
IC
Glasgow, Leeds, Bristol, etc.
III. Studies:
General and Preparatory Edu-
cation
*Social, Economic, and Political
Sciences
270 60
22
16
12
12
76
80 (London, 60)
70 (London, 40)
70 (Edinburgh, 40; London, 20)
60 (London, 40)
35 (Manchester, 15)
25 (Plymouth, 12; Greenwich, 10)
Medicine
*Law
Engineering
Naval
Military
20
Banking and Accountancy
20
Architecture
15
Aviation
IO
Commerce
...
IO
Music and Art
-
Natural Sciences
ΙΟ
10
English, Literature, Philosophy, Education, Agriculture, etc.
The Chinese student population of any country is necessarily a constantly changing one, so that statistics are at all times difficult. The figures I quote here are some compiled with the help of the Directory of the Central Union of Chinese Students and are, in my opinion, as accurate as it is perhaps possible to get them.
Chinese Students in Great Britain
In the first place, taking the total as a maximum of 450, you will note that not all come from China. In fact, nearly half have come from homes in various parts of the British Empire, so that, while for all practicable purposes here there is no difference, it is nonetheless suitable to remember this fact in comparison with the numbers of Chinese students in other countries. (Since it is perhaps of interest to make some such comparisons, let me digress for a moment to give you the figures in other countries: Japan 2,500, U.S.A. 2,000, France 1,500, Germany 300. These figures are some which have been computed with the help of a publication by the World's Chinese Students Federation, with the exception of the figure for Japan, which is the estimate of the Chinese Educational Commissioner in Japan. I must say myself, however, that I should have placed them all, but especially the figure for U.S.A., considerably higher.) You will see, therefore, that the number of Chinese students in Great Britain is comparatively small.
In the second classification, you will note that a good 60 per cent. of the total have London as a headquarters. The obvious facilities of London as an international centre probably account for the large number, though the fact that London is the port of arrival of most, and also the fact that there are plenty of Chinese restaurants in London, must play important contributory parts. The first five in this classification are what we call the regular "Centres"; Oxford and Cambridge where one gets the so-called 'varsity type together with one or two research students, Edinburgh with its large quota of medical students, and Manchester where most of the Chinese students study either textiles or electrical engineering.
In the third classification, there are two main types to be noted, the first being the 70 odd studying Social, Economic, and Political Sciences, virtually all of whom come from China, and many of whom are postgraduates and attending lectures in the London School of Economics; the second type are the 60 or so reading Law, virtually all coming
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