Boxer Indemnity Scholarship (United Kingdom)

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Boxer Indemnity Scholarship
Traditional Chinese庚子賠款獎學金
Simplified Chinese庚子赔款奖学金
Alternative Chinese name
Chinese英庚子

The Boxer Indemnity Scholarship by the United Kingdom (Chinese: 庚子賠款獎學金; pinyin: Gēngzǐ Péikuǎn Jiǎngxuéjīn or simply Chinese: 英庚子) was a scholarship program for Chinese students to be educated in the United Kingdom, funded by the remittent of Boxer Indemnity [zh] of China to the United Kingdom. It was established after the United States' Boxer Indemnity Scholarship.

History[edit]

Unlike the U.S., the remittent of the indemnity caused a debate in the parliament of the United Kingdom, on the allocation of the money, on education or on other area such as railways.[1]

Recipients[edit]

Name Year University Footnotes
Qian Zhongshu the University of Oxford[2] also known as Chien Chung-Shu[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Chow, Phoebe (2017). "Challenges to imperialism, 1919–1925". Britain's Imperial Retreat from China, 1900-1931. Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia. Abingdon-on-Thames, New York City: Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group). ISBN 978-1-138-90984-7.
  2. ^ a b Hsia Chih-tsing (1999) [first edition in 1961]. A History of Modern Chinese Fiction (3 ed.). Bloomington, Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. p. 432. ISBN 0-253-33477-2.