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China s Exiled Universities

The Pacific Story · October 10, 1943 · 29 min · 4,118 words

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the story of the Pacific and its people, of the peaceful sea and the lands and lives it touches, and their meaning to us and to the generations to come. The Pacific Story, presented by the National Broadcasting Company and dedicated to a full understanding of the best Pacific Basin. This broadcast series comes to

you as another public service with drama of the past and present and commentary by Dr. Lee Ray Lyman-Willburn. Traveler and scholar of the Pacific, President Emeritus and Chancellor of Stanford University. China's exiled universities. For them six years now, Japan has thought to exterminate education in China.

So the Japanese and educated Chinese is a nail in the eye, a dangerous irritation and obstruction which must be removed. So China, an educated youth, is a priceless pearl in the palm of the nation.

And him, the Japanese have resolved to destroy. And the night of July 28, 1937, three weeks after the incident at the Marco Polo Bridge, Dean Huang, a beautiful Nankai University at Jin Fin, and the last two students remaining in the Nankai province were hurriedly packing books, papers.

Will we take these books to Dean Huang? We will take everything we can carry. It is incredible that we must go. We must hurry. Here is the chief's notes. Observations on chemical experiments. Take them low and wang.

Yes, sir? Take your thesis on the problems of North China. You will finish it. Sometime when we come back, you may not come back for a long time. The Japanese know that the university students have opposed them for years.

Yes. They know that the Chinese intellectuals have frustrated their hopes of seizing Chinese rights and territory, and they will take vengeance. Here Wang, take this monograph. Oh yes sir, can this almanac? Take it. As soon as light comes, the Japanese will be here.

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