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(b) To voice the needs and wishes of the Chinese universities regarding the subjects on which British teachers should be asked to lecture and to suggest the names of British scholars who would be specially welcomed.
(c) To make all arrangements for the visits of British lecturers to China and to draw up provisional programmes and dates of lectures.
(d) To recommend to the Universities' China Committee the names of suitable Chinese candidates for research fellowships. (e) To disseminate in China information about the different universities of Great Britain and the Empire, as to courses of study and facilities offered, as to fees and costs of living, as to regulations regarding matriculation, etc.
To collect all available information regarding the credentials of Chinese students of all grades intending to study in British universities and to put them in touch with the Secretary of the Universities' China Committee in England. This is important in order to save the waste of time and disappointments so often caused by Chinese students coming to England without knowing whether they will be accepted for graduate or post-graduate courses. The work under this head would no doubt have to be done by the sub-committee through correspondents at all the important academic centres in China, and all such correspondents should be equipped with the necessary information and with handbooks of the British universities. It might be worth while to consider whether it would not be advantageous to cause Chinese students proposing to come to England to be informed that their passports will not be visa'd by British consuls unless they can produce evidence that they will be received in a British university or college.
g) To collect such information regarding the degree-standards of different Chinese universities as would enable the Committee to decide which Chinese degrees were worthy of recognition by British universities, thereby enabling the holders of such degrees to proceed to higher degrees in Great Britain. (It may be worthy of mention that Liverpool University already accepts the gradua- tion certificate of Yenching University as qualifying for admission to the M.A. course.)
(b) To keep in touch with all the great educational centres in China and also with Hong Kong (which should have a corre- spondent or a corresponding member of its own) and to co-operate when necessary or expedient not only with the Board of Trustees
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and with the China Foundation for the Promotion of Education and Culture (which administers a large portion of the funds of the returned American China Indemnity), but also with other agencies engaged upon the promotion of better education in China and of improved cultural relations between East and West in general and between China and Great Britain in particular.
The problem of the composition of the sub-committee is one of some difficulty. Many persons consulted favoured the suggestion that it should consist of two main groups, one for the Yangtse Valley, with headquarters at Nanking or Shanghai, and one for North China, meeting at Peiping, and that these two main groups should have official correspondents in other parts of the country. Finally, however, we arrived at the conclusion that the sub-committee should consist of a single body stationed at Peiping, with correspondents in the Yangtse Valley, Canton, West China (of which Ch'êng-tu is the cultural capital) and Hong Kong. This conclusion was reached because, as it happens, there are the makings of a much stronger educational group in Peiping than in any other region; and it was felt that the sub-committee should be a homogeneous body, having all its members in constant touch with one another and meeting at frequent intervals.
As to the personnel of the sub-committee, it is recommended that it should consist of about seven persons, of whom two might be British. The majority of the Chinese should be British-trained and possess a good knowledge of the British universities and an intimate acquaintance with China's educational needs. Several names of possible members have been suggested, among them those of Dr. L. K. Tao, Dr. V. K. Ting, and Dr. Hu Shih. All these distinguished leaders of modern Chinese thought are associated with one or more of the activities of the China Foundation for the Promotion of Educa- tion and Culture, with which our sub-committee should maintain close touch. Among other Chinese eligible for the sub-committee are Y. Y. Tsu, T. Z. Koo, Dr. Chiang Monlin (President of the National University, Peking), Dr. Chang Po-ling (the much-respected head of Nankai University), and Professor Mi Wu of Tsing Hua University. The last-named is a prominent leader of a more conservative school of thought than most of the other persons named, and might not care to associate himself with a group of radicals", especially as he is an upholder of the old Chinese cultural traditions and is not in sympathy with the literary reform" movement. But he would
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