Monday, October 1, 2018

Visiting Liverpool, England/Carlos Pueblo


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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