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President delivers a keynote address at Fudan University
“Meeting Global Challenges with a Revitalised Multilateral System” Address by President Higgins
Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 12th December 2014
May I thank you, President Xu, for your kind introduction and the warm welcome to Fudan. I am honoured and delighted to have been asked to deliver an address at one of China’s oldest and most prestigious Universities.
As President of Ireland, it is an immense pleasure to be here in China. Our two peoples are united in friendship – a friendship for the building of which the two visits to China by my predecessor, former President Mary McAleese, as well as the 2012 visit to Ireland of then Vice-President Xi Jinping were of such significance; and a friendship which this State Visit acknowledges and, I hope, will contribute to deepening even more.
There is of course a long history of cultural engagement of the Irish with China, which predates the establishment of formal diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China, in 1979. For example, it is interesting to note that it was an Irishman of the name of Augustine Henry who greatly expanded Europeans’ knowledge of China’s flora by sending back to Europe thousands of dry specimens and
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Tours
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF SUN-YATSEN (guided bus tour)
- Iolani School (where Sun learned English and graduated)
- Punahou School (alma mater of both Sun Yatsen and Barack Obama)
- St. Andrew’s Cathedral (where Sun attended weekly services)
- Walking tour of historic Honolulu Chinatown (where Sun began his revolutionary activities)
Optional island-wide tours provided by United Travel
Details forthcoming.
CAMPUS TOURS (free)
- Campus trees of Joseph Rock 约瑟夫·洛克 (the campus is a Class 1 arboretum)
- Dragon robe exhibition (Miller 112; receive a free pack of exhibition note-cards)
- Treasures of the Asia Collection
- The tour of the UHM Library, led by Chinese librarian Dongyun Ni, will feature UHM’s China Collection, which strong in history, Chinese language and literature (especially classical texts and traditional drama and fiction), Chinese philosophy and religion, and Chinese arts (especially Chinese architecture and paintings). Visitors will also see the newly established Sun Yat-sen and Soong Ching Ling Research Room and view a biography hand-signed by Chairman Mao)
- Buildings designed by I.M. Pei (Imin Conference Center & Kennedy Theater)
- Center for Korean Studies building funded by the government of South Korea
- Thai pavilion donated by King Bhumibo
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