POLITICAL INFORMATION: FRICTION BETWEEN STUDENTS AND CENTRAL GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES AT CHANGCHUN UNIVERSITY

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000300460002-0
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 24, 2001
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 1, 1946
• Content Type: IR

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COUNTRY China
DATE: 25X1A6a
INFO,
SUBJECT Political Information: Friction Between Students
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SUPPLEMEIN
and Central Government Authorities at Changchun DIST. 1.1 February 1947
University 5X1A6a PAGES 2
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Because the students belonging to the Changchun Student League could not reach
an a:reer.,ent on policy with a Representative of the 'rinistry of Education who
was dispatched to Changchun o
arrange for the foundation of Changchun Univer-
1
:pity.. i.:r.. HU:i'G .lu-chin ( - 'R /- ) was appointed as the new'
ew president
of the university., Mr. HUNG has studied in the United States for four years
r nd afterwards r:as in Europe there he studied at Berlin University for 11 months,
After returning to China he became a professor at Hunan University. Up to his
present appointment he was the chief of the social education department ( of
Hunan University?), He arrived in Changchun 27 August 191,tm
The major problem of disagreement between the Student League and the iepresentative
was the examination required of persons, who were formerly students of high
schools or of the university in the '.lanahukuo period,, and who want to continue
their schoolin,; under the new school system of the Central Government? The
University administration had announced that since the students under the Japan-
ese hanchukuo re-ime were slavishly educated, they must therefore be examined,
after this examination (which would determine both intellectu al ability and
freedom of political thought) the enrollment for the university would be deter--
mined4 The students were a,~-,ainat such ar exa -ination.
CLASSIFICATION C`)
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n a. ,.nr. university studefts?
1.> However, after several ne-;otkttions bettiaeen the president and the stunts it was
finally decided that the examinations should take place 16 Se +ariber@9L 6r-pet
lectual qualifications of the students. The Student League insisted that such
an entrance examination was not necessary because the Central Government was not
founding a now university but was merely reor;;anizing the old school system and
asserting.; its authority over schools formerly in existence* The old schools them
selves as a whole nov? recognized the authority of the Chinese Government1s
Central Education Department; therefore, the students insisted that, since they
had been students under the system to be reorganized,, registration v.ith the new
authorities should be sufficient. They argued that the President was not actually
concerned with the problem of qualifications of students accordin; to intellectual
and scientific knowled;~e but that the very aim of the examination was to exclude
uunfuvora')le elements arion3
,f the student groups,; especially such elements who might
have s ,,Tr with the Communist forces. The students claimed that since the
examination was to be only oral; they believed that the school authorities, with
an excuse of examinin the 1:nowled;;e of the students, wanted to carry out a rigid
elect
The principle of carrying out this system of examinations was kept by the now
president. He announced that he was going to examine the scientific and Intel.--=
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.this date, only 300 names had been listed by the registration bureau. The
students claimed that this was a result of than laxity and idleness of the
registration bureau in registering students. The students agitated concern-
ig this point and the examinations were delayed until the 20th of September.
In
The students again attempted to gain their aim - registration without any
examination. They hoped to do this by a delaying action.
On the evening; of 16 September l9i;6 several students were said to have heard
the roar of big guns very near the campus and thought at first that it must
be an attack of the CoA=uniat foroeaa; however they later olaaimed that a group
of Nationalist Amy soluieers had shot a, adnst them with the expressed
purpose of threatening; them. (Act'.ially only blant: shells were used, but the
students considered this as a throat,) Since this date the situation between
the school authorities and: the students has been very disturbed. Not all
students formerly at the university were permitted to re?ister for the new
term. Approximately 1,000 students are living to ether it he student..'
hoarding house which is maintairod by the Education Uepeir ..ent at their own
expense, The families of most cif these students are in Corm;Iiznist territory,:.
There are no communieatiosa between the students and their families and no
money is received from t:femo W th the increased cost of livi:zg the students
are saying that ultimatesly they will be compelled to go home and consequently
go over to the Consmuni st side,:'
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Note: zieccrding to previous information supplied by
source, the maximum enrollment of Changchun University, known as :hienkuo
University under the puppet re~:i.ne, at the time of the Japanese defeat in
Manchuria could have 'aeen no more than 1200 students, of whom half mere
Japanese,. It is probable that Mart, if not all,, of the Japanese students
have been repatriater.. source further stated that during, the evolution of
th6 han~;(Au i &tude3!it League,, c. lar ;e proportion of former students, the
?eft=wing group zithin the orf,.tnization, had retreated from Changchun with
he Chinese Communists. If source is correct in his summary of the deveop-
went of the League,, only a smell proportion of the students applying for
enrollment could have been enrolled in that university during the puppet regime)
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