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Written by Mauricette Mellor (Bernard's wife), the journal records the visit from 10th to 27th December 1955.

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Include a list of delegates, including Edmund Blunden, Bernard Mellor, and other HKU academic staff. Their mini biographies, briefs on their various interests in the visit, and an itinerary of the visit is also included.

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Written by Bernard Mellor, the journal records the visit from 10th to 30th December 1955. It includes a newspaper clipping from the Peking Daily News dated 24th December 1955, titled 'British Professors, Blunden, etc., of the University of Hong Kong, Received by Premier Chou.'

Scope and Contents This collection features the 1955 Beijing journals written by Bernard "Bunny" Mellor, who was the Hong Kong University Registrar, and his wife Mauricette Mellor in 1955. It records the visit of an HKU delegation to Beijing to study tertiary education and other cultural aspects of the People's Republic of China six years after the 1949 revolution. The trip originated from an invitation by the Premier, Zhou Enlai (Chou Enlai), to meet the World War I poet Edmund Blunden. This was then expanded...