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in China wrote in August 1946 "It is greatly to be hoped that the British Government will take a broad and generous view of the functions » Hong Kong University as a high-grade and well-endowed University, is fitted to perform in cementing close cultural relations and friendship witl: China. hatever the future extension of the activities of the British Council in ina, it du probably true to say that long song University is, potentially the largest single "cultural" contribution to Chinese reconstruction which Great Britain is capable of contributing".
Dr. Joseph Needham F.P,S,, hand of the British Scientific Mission in China, welcomin, the proposal of a generously developed University in hong kong as an instrument for the diffusion of the british tradition in education in China adds, "To put the matter in a nutshell, if Hong Kong University is to achieve a status at which it can discuss on equal terms with the boat Universities of China, such as those of fieching, Chinghua, Nankai, Chikiang, then it must itself take on the qualities of a graut University. This neede at least some strong
research schools.
The greatest criticism of ita failure and the most confident hopes of success were spoken by teachers of the University who, not depressed by the completely inadequate provision of time and equipment in which for years they had been required to w 1, met at intervals in the Japanese internment camp at Starkey, defying prohibition of meetings/ to console the selves with visions of what they could make of the University if only the funds were forthcoming. Of the intellectual quality of the students they had not doubt; and first hand knowledge of the Japanese habits of mind convinced them that in the worlds of the mind and spirit, the British have a congenial task in the rebuilding of a region in which mental and moral barbarity had done its worst.
Peetings of old students of the University in long Kong and thunghai havo passed resolutions praying for an early reopening of the University, not as it was/but on more generous lines; and again the stress is on its powerf
to aid in the rehabilitation of China.
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17. In not one of the opinions to which reference has been made is there any suggestion that we should enter into com, etition with america. It is generally expected that ›merican aid to Chinese Universities will incrauge ruther than diminish, that still larger numbers of Chinese students will find the way to merica made easy for ability. It would be absurd to embark on any rivalry of the kind. Unaerlying
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