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universities on the subject and invite their suggestions.
It is less easy to carry out the instructions of
there
the Committee to recommend candidates for lectureships tenable
in Great Britain by Chinese, not so much because blue is a lack
of scholars in China who are qualified to act as interpreters
of Chinese culture to the West as because some of them have
little or no knowledge of English and also because many of the
most competent scholars have either abandoned an educational for
a political career or cannot be spared from their own universities.
In a speech made in June last by Mr Chu Chia-hua, one of the
best-known educationalists in China, he observed (according to
the press-reports) that "there was a dearth of outstanding
scholars in China and owing to the absorption of many of them in
politics there was a shortage of men qualified to hold the posi-
tion of professors; and having regard to the vast sums which
Were being expended in sending students abroad, it would be more
Profitable, and less costly, to invite an increased number of
eminent foreigners to give lectures in China."
This is a very
significant utterance from the head of the leading University
in the capital of China who happens also to be Chairman of our
Board of Trustees; and incidentally it indicates that our
proposed method of utilising that small portion of the indemnity fund which is to be administered by the Universities China Committee is likely to be in complete harmony with any edu- cational programme hereafter to be adopted by the Board.
Though Chinese names for the purpose we have in view are less numerous than English ones, it is not impossible to mention a few distinguished Chinese scholars who would probably be both able and willing to accept invitations to lecture in Great Britain.
Among them are T.C.Chao and William
T
Hung of Yenching University, V.K.Ting, L.K.Tao, Y..Tsu, Anson
Chow, T.Z.Koo, and Dr James Yen.
Dr T.C.Chao will in any case
be in England during 1932-3. Dr Tsu, who has been director of
the religious work of the Peking Union Medical College, is desir- ous of studying the co-operative movement in England and
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