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Foreign and Commonwealth Office,
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JUK 1990
29 January 1990
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Dear Chance,
!
Sir Y K Pao: Library Projects
You mentioned recently that Sir Y K Pao had raised with you the library projects in the UK and China that he is sponsoring.
Sir Y K originally proposed that the Ningbo University Library should be named after the Prime Minister and that a library, to be named after Deng Xiaoping, should be constructed at a British university. We gave our agreement in principle for these plans and last year we heard from Sir Y K that the Chinese Government too had given their blessing. The next stage was for us to contact the Chinese in Peking and for Sir Y K to make contact with the Universities Funding Council here to discuss a possible site for the Deng Xiaoping library. Then came the Peking massacre
in June 1989. We told Sir Y K's office in Hong Kong that
it no longer seemed right to go ahead because it was doubtful whether any British university would be ready to name
a library after Deng. Sir Y K's office indicated that he shared our thinking.
If you reply to Sir Y K you might say that we have not yet contacted the Chinese because in present circumstances the proposal to establish a Deng Xiaoping library in Britain seems unlikely to get a positive reaction from the universities. The time is simply not yet right for a project of this kind. You might also mention our satisfaction that other areas of Sir Y K Pao's work, in particular the Sino-British Scholarship Scheme (which brings around 320 students a year to UK to study), continues uninterrupted.
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CISTRY MAR 1990
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