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| Description | Student file for Irene Ho Tung (later Irene Cheng)
Correspondence between Irene Ho Tung and various people working at the Institute of Education.
This includes:
Request from Irene for a copy of her dissertation
Newspaper article about Irene, written just before she was due to sit her PHD examination, it discusses her views on education in this country, as well as The Chung Hwa Club which she set up in London to teach children their Chinese culture and heritage
Discussion of the increasing hostilities between Japan and China and the The Second Sino-Japanese War
Discussion of her travels to America on the Queen Mary in 1936
Discussion of her PHD 'Ancient and Modern Educational Theory in China.'
Administrative letters re PHD costs and arrangements of meetings and supervisors
Letter re the formation of a Chinese section of the New Education Fellowship (NEF), Irene was the Secretary
Application form for PHD at the IOE
Irene Ho Tung was the first Chinese woman to graduate from The University of Hong Kong (https://www.scmp.com/article/584606/irene-cheng-teacher-and-daughter-hong-kong) and the first Chinese student to recieve a Doctorate at the IOE, London.
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