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THE British Council has appointed Prof. P. M. Roxby, professor of geography at the University of Liverpool and a specialist on Far Eastern matters, to be its principal representative in China. He will take up his duties in the early part of 1945. Prof. Roxby has visited China on three occasions: during 1912–13 as Albeit Kahn Travelling Fellow; during 1921–22 as a member of the China Education Commission; and in 1931 as a member of the British group of the Institute of Pacific Relations. His works on China include "The Far Eastern Question in its Geographical Setting", "China as an Entity: The Comparison with Europe", "The Terrain of Early Chinese Civilisation", "China" (Oxford Pamphlets on World Affairs), and contributions on China in the Encyclopædia Britannica. Prof. Roxby's wife, who is lecturer in history at the University of Liverpool, will accompany him to China. With Prof. Roxby's appointment the British Council hopes to be able to expand its work in China, in co-operation with the Chinese authorities. Many valuable activities are already in progress there, particularly in the scientific field, under the direction of Dr. Joseph JSTeedham, who went out to China for the British Council in October 1942.
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British Council Representative for China. Nature 153, 373 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153373a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/153373a0