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The beginning and development of cooperation between Geography at Liverpool and in China

The beginning and development of cooperation between Geography at Liverpool and in China. David Sadler, University of Liverpool. The University of Liverpool: the original red-brick “civic” university. European Capital of Culture 2008. Percy Maude Roxby.

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The beginning and development of cooperation between Geography at Liverpool and in China

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  1. The beginning and development of cooperation between Geography at Liverpool and in China David Sadler, University of Liverpool

  2. The University of Liverpool: the original red-brick “civic” university

  3. European Capital of Culture 2008

  4. Percy Maude Roxby • Born 1880; educated in History at Oxford; appointed Lecturer in Regional Geography at Liverpool in 1906; became “lecturer in charge” of new Department of Geography in 1909; appointed John Rankin Professor of Geography in 1917 • Visited China as Albert Kahn Fellow in 1912-13 and in 1921-22 as member of the China Education Commission (3rd visit in 1931)

  5. Roxby… • Handbooks on China: I Physical geography, history and peoples, II Modern history and administration, III Economic geography, ports and communications (1944-45) • British Council’s Chief Representative in China, 1944-47; died in Nanking in 1947

  6. Professors Percy Maude Roxby, Lin Chao, and Hou Renzhi

  7. Higher degrees at Liverpool • Wilfred Smith “The iron and steel industry of China” MA, 1926 • Chang Yin Tang “The economic development and prospects of inner Mongolia” MA, 1929 • Lin Chao “The Nanking-wu-yi Shan: a geographic divide” PhD, 1938 • Wu Chuanjun “The rice economy of China” PhD, 1948 • Hou Renzhi “An historical geography of Peiping”, PhD, 1949

  8. Lin Chao, 1909-91 • Born in Jieyang County, Guangdong Province; educated at Zhongshan University • Studied the application of physical geography to China’s environmental conservation and rural development • Rose to become Head of Geography at Peking University

  9. Wu Chuanjun, 1918-2009 • Born in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, educated at Zhongyang University • Studied the utilisation of land resources and agricultural development • Selected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991

  10. Hou Renzhi • Born in Zaoqiang, Hebei Province, educated at Yanjing University • Studied historical geography, the origin and development of water resources, and the municipal plan for Beijing • Selected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980 • Awarded Honorary Doctor of Science by Liverpool in 1984

  11. … and more recently… • Lizhong Yu “Environmental applications of mineral magnetic measurement” PhD, 1989 • Yuquan Hu “A magnetic approach to sediment-source linkages in the Lac d’Annecy” PhD, 1997 • Xie Shanju “Magnetic studies of dust in the urban environment” PhD, 2000 • Xia Dunsheng “Magnetic studies of tephra in SE Iceland” PhD, 2003 • Qingnian Yu “Cultivated land protection in China” PhD, 2006 • Zhixiong Shen “Improving the chronologies of lake sediments: Crummock Water” PhD, 2007

  12. The Tribute of Gü This scroll hangs on the wall in the Geography Department with the following inscription: The original text of Gunkung or “The Tribute of Gü” Dedicated to the ‘China Room’ Department of Geography, University of Liverpool Presented by Chong Gün t’ang & Lin Chao Written by Professor Ku Chi-Kay (The tenth month of the 25th year of the Chinese Republic)

  13. Prof Frank Oldfield and Prof Yu Lizhong in Shanghai

  14. Sediment sampling, Yangtze Estuary

  15. Luochan Loess Section

  16. Transnational family strategies and education

  17. Central Institute of Rural Development, Haikou

  18. … and in the future… • Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University (XJTLU), Suzhou, established 2006 • Liverpool Confucius Institute established 2009, formally opened by Madam Lin Wenyi, Vice Chair of 11th Chinese Peoples Political Consultative Conference, and Professor Wang Jianhua, XJTLU Board Director • Shanghai Expo 2010: Liverpool the sole UK representative city

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