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Quemoy University 金門大學 (to be established on August 1, 2010)
President Lee ChingCheng:
Once again, congratulations on the monumental effort you and your colleagues have made in developing QUEMOY UNIVERSITY!
Enclosed is the complete testimony of the 3rd debate between Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Senator John F. Kennedy on October 13, 1960. This is precisely some 2 years after the famous 823 (August 23, 1958) bombardment of Quemoy by Mainland China.
Today, the content of this debate is of historical interest only. Indeed, the situation in the Taiwan Straits today bears little or no resemblance from the Taiwan Straits then.
What is interesting, however, is that Quemoy-and Matsu were mentioned a grand total of 16 times in that debate. It should be noted that the other “hotspot” then, “Berlin,” was mentioned only 10 times!
Although according to your colleague Professor Chiang, the translation of 金
門 into QUEMOY were by the Portuguese (who also named Taiwan, Formosa,) based on the Min-Nan dialect more than 300 years ago, there is no doubt that when two global leaders in 1960 repeatedly mention it in a US nationally televised debate (which was also carried by the world media,) it made QUEMOY a household word in the world. That impact, President Lee, can still be felt today!
As you and your colleagues are building a new era of higher education in 金
門, a university called QUEMOY UNIVERSITY, I thought that this testimony between Nixon and Kennedy is another fundemantally relevant piece of history of the island.
Da Hsuan
P.s. More on NCKU’s involvement with Quemoy University
http://news.msn.com.tw/news1670979.aspx 國立大學首次成大材料系在金門技術
學院開課最快99學年度實行| MSN 新聞頻道
http://www.cna.com.tw/postwrite/cvpread.aspx?ID=56131
http://president.ncku.edu.tw/files/14-1026-64734,r761-1.php 成大醫學院附
設醫院金門分院有譜成大與金門縣政府7日簽定合作意願書 ...
http://web.ncku.edu.tw/files/14-1000-64651,r923-1.php
http://www.chinareviewnews.com/doc/93_5670_101254428_1_0309175404.html 中
國評論新聞：兩岸熱金門尋求成大支援發展休閒島
http://www.chinareviewnews.com/doc/1012/5/4/4/101254428.html?coluid=93
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