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

• 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)

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

Professors Percy Maude Roxby, Lin Chao, and Hou Renzhi

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

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

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

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

… 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

The Tribute of Gü

The original text of Gunkungor

“The Tribute of Gü”Dedicated to the ‘China Room’

Department of Geography,University of Liverpool

Presented byChong Gün t’ang & Lin Chao

Written byProfessor Ku Chi-Kay

(The tenth month of the 25th yearof the Chinese Republic)

This scroll hangs on the wallin the Geography Departmentwith the following inscription:

Prof Frank Oldfield and Prof Yu Lizhong in Shanghai

Sediment sampling, Yangtze Estuary

Luochan Loess Section

Transnational family strategies and education

Central Institute of Rural Development, Haikou

… 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