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(F) Machinery for carrying out the purposes of

the Universities China Committee in China.

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The third of our terms of reference requires us

to make suggestions to the Committee as to the possibility of

constituting a corresponding member or a corresponding

committee in China.

We have carefully considered this matter in

consultation with many British and Chinese in China who are

interested in our plans, and as a result of such consideration

we recommend that a corresponding sub-committee be appointed

to officiate as the agents of the Universities China Committee

in that country. We consider that a really efficient and

energetic sub-committee carrying out its functions in China

in closest co-operation with the Universities China Committee

at home is fundamental to the proper working of the general

scheme which we have in view. It will constitute the necessary liaison between the British universities (through the Universi-

ties China Committee) and the academic world of China. It is

unnecessary in this Report to specify all its functions in detail, but among them will be the following:-

(a) to draw up and maintain a panel of suitable Chinese lecturers to visit Great Britain and such other parts of the British Empire (such as Canada) as may be desirous of sharing in our activities;

(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

care for research fellowships;

(e) to disseminate in China information about the

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