Science and Technology in China's Far South-East

Abstract

THE two provinces covered in this article are those of Kuangtung and Fukien. Both differ widely in their dialects from all other parts of China and from each other, and during the War they had a different fate. In the campaign of 1944, the Japanese driving south along the Hankow-Canton railway linked up with the Japanese coming up from Canton, oapturing Kuangtung's temporary provincial capital, Kukong, and destroying the scientific institutions in its neighbourhood. Fukien, on the other hand, tinged round as it is on the landward side by mountains and forests, has suffered only intermittent Japanese occupation of its main ports, Fuchow and Hsiame'n (Amoy). It remains a sort of Valley of Avalon, isolated, with its two excellent universities, from the ravages of war in the plains of Chiangsi and Kuangtung to the west.