Third Year:
Chinese Philosophy, Chinese History, Chinese Language and Literature, Translation and Comparison, Ethics.
Fourth Year: Chinese Fhilosophy, Chinese History, Chinese
Language and Literature, Translation and Comparison, History or Jurisprudence.
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The Council of the University has approved the recommendations of the Faculty of Arts and of the Senate and arrangements are being made to provide the requisite funds for financing the scheme with effect from 1933. Steps are being taken to recruit, if possible, a modern Chinese scholar, as Reader in Chinese, to build up the new Department of Chinese Studies and to direct its teaching.
The post is being advertised as widely as practicable in China. The staff will consist of a Reader, two lecturers and a translator and the usual office establishment. It is estimated that it will cost about $35,000 a year to maintain the new department. The proposed expenditure will be met partly from the interest on the funds subscribed by the local Chinese community for the School of Chinese Studies and partly by a special allotment of $15,000 a year from the income derived from the grant of £265,000 from the Boxer Indemnity.
In this connection it may be explained that the sum subscribed by the local Chinese community amounted to $200,000. This sum has increased by accumulation of interest and by the addition of the funds subscribed specifically for Chinese Studies in previous years. The fund at the end of 1932 will amount to about $280,000.
The proposal for a modified matriculation examination under special conditions for those Chinese students who wish to enter the new groups of Chinese Studies has also been accepted and special arrangements will be made to enable students at present in the School of Chinese Studies to complete their studies.
The abolition of the School of Chinese Studies as at present constituted and the adoption of the proposals contained in the Report of the Special Committee appointed to advise on the future provision for the teaching of Chinese at the University are subject to the approval of the Court of the University. The Court will meet in December unless a special meeting is called. For practical purposes I venture to suggest that it may, reasonably, be assumed that the Court will endorse and adopt the Report of the Committee which has been unanimously accepted by the academic bodies and the Council of the University.
The institution of a well organised department of Chinese designed to provide for modern critical and comparative methods of study, as well as for an intensive study of Chinese language and literature, History and Philosophy, will naturally form the nucleus for further development into a full-blown faculty of Chinese.
(sa.) W.B. Finnigan.
Registrar.
26th October, 1932.
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