Word: nankai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundred planes with a monthly carrying load of 9,000 tons would replace the loss of the Burma Road, writes H. D. Fong, Economic Expert in the Chinese Ministry of Economics. Mr. Fong was formerly Dean of Nankai University College of Commerce...
First victims of Japan's invasion in the summer of 1937 were China's universities. Concentrated along the coast, in Peking, Tientsin, Shanghai, Nanking, Hong Kong, Canton, they were at once Japan's most dangerous foes and easiest targets. Japanese bombs completely destroyed Nankai University in Tientsin; not a book or piece of equipment was saved. Japanese soldiers looted National Peking University, sold its furniture for cigaret money. At Tsing Hua University, in Peking, Japanese smashed laboratories to bits, converted the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Gymnasium into a stable, the John Hay Memorial Library into a hospital...
...last week, having moved its universities 1,000 to 2,000 miles, beyond reach of Japanese guns, China had virtually completed its great trek. In Chungking, where Nankai University's foresighted Chancellor Chang Poling had started to build several years before the Japanese invasion, were fully equipped, new greystone preparatory and postgraduate schools. At Kunming was great new Southwest Associated University, with 90 buildings. To these and other centres China had moved 77 universities all told. Out of its pre-war total of 108 colleges and universities, it has saved 91, added four new ones...