Visiting Liverpool, England/Carlos Pueblo
Liverpool
is on the west of Manchester,
England and also a key city
during the
Industrial Revolution in England, ship building and ocean
marine, etc.
I select to visit Liverpool due to an admired person in
my college
time, Professor Lin Ching-chiang of the Taiwan Normal
who gets a
Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool and has served
our nation
of Taiwan very well during his life time. When I entered
Taiwan
Normal in the mid 60’s, I noticed from the newspaper that
he was one
of the recipient of the government scholarship to have
his Ph.D.
work in England and within two years, he returned to the
campus and
became one of the three major professors at the college
of Education
for the advisor to the doctoral candidate. Later, he
became a
President of a National University and the National Educational
Minister. He
is a role model of my time.
Liverpool is
very vivid and lovely. I found a poster under the Chinese Arch
at a small
Chinatown about the beginning of the Liverpool Chinatown.
After the
Opium War of China, the British merchant ship recruited Japanese
and Chinese
merchant navy to serve on ships for the ocean trade with the
orient. Some
of the recruits lost their life during WWI and WWII in the
result of
German submarine. After the Wars, the British government allowed
these
recruits stay in England. Shanghai and Liverpool have been sister cities
ever since.
As long as my interest of the British Empire is going on, I can
imagine that
the Empire could go ahead annexing China after the Taiping
rebellion if
there were enough man power and General Golden didn’t have
to die in
Sudan afterward.
I did march
to the lovely campus of the Liverpool University and find the
college of
education. There is a huge Cathedral of the Church of England near
the campus.
Students can really gain very much for such excellent facilities
and campus
environment. On the second day, I marched to the harbor and
visited the
Albert Dock. There is the Museum of Liverpool providing a section
of the
Chinese Merchant Navy’s history with photos and a Chinese Junk Model
to display.
Across a sunk cruise memorial, there is a slave trade museum about
the era of
European slave business involving the city.
Another
Cathedral, a Catholic, is nearby the Chinatown. Citizen of Liverpool
are very
proud of this medieval architecture of thousands years. I got both
of my
seafood noodle at one small restaurant under the Arch of Chinatown.
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