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HK Univ.
Extract from a letter from
Professor L. Forster to
Mr. Mayhew dated the 18th
March, 1935.
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The Council has approved of the appointment
of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of the Department of Chinese.
The salary offered is generous and yet I am not certain
that he will come. There is a big clearage between
Canton and Pekin because Pekin has taken the lead in the
new movement (literary), Hu Shih being the leader.
South in this matter is very reactionary and under
Chan Chai Tong, the general in control. The movement is
back towards the Chinese classics and even Chinese
medicine. Now
The
Dr. Chen comes here it will mean that
we become identified with the forward movement, the aim
of which is to make Kuo Yu the literary medicine, though
it does not mean the exclusion of the classics, which,
it is accepted, should be the final goal of study. It
is quite obvious that the future lies this way and that
the present system is doomed for the type of person
the old Hanlin scholar-will soon be unobtainable.
only so, but all the intellectual life is in the North,
practically none in Canton.
Not
However apart from this antagonism between
Pekin and Canton which expressed itself very fully when
Dr. Hu Shih went up to Canton after receiving his
honorary degree from us in January and when he was
ordered officially to leave Canton without addressing
Chung Shan
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