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a-history-of-international-exchanges00

- 57 -Ⅴ. Sister Colleges in Asian Countries(1) Qingdao University (Qingdao, China)(ⅰ) Mr.Ueno’s connectionAfter he retired from Miyazaki University in 1990, Mr.Ueno, a professoremeritus of MU who died in 2014, started the joint-research as a professor ofKyushu Kyoritsu University with Mr. Xu Xiude, Vice-chairman of the EconomicsResearch Center of Qingdao University (hereafter QU). He had a talk with Mr.Li Weizhou, Chairman of Japanese Culture Research Center of QU, about thepossibility of starting the academic exchange between the two institutions.Unfortunately, Mr. Li Weizhou suddenly passed away. So Mr.Ueno talkeddirectly to President Zhou Guangfu about the possibility of the academicexchange. QU took a positive attitude toward the exchange, as they were notentirely satisfied with its exchange with Shimonoseki City University.In order to have a talk about the academic exchange, Mr. Ueno took Mr.Kusano, Dean of the Faculty of Education, and Mr. Hirase, Chairman of SEC toQU in June 1999.Qingdao UniversityThe university is located in Qingdao-shi, Shandong Province. The forerunner of thisuniversity, the private University of Qingdao, was established in 1924. It became theNational University of Qingdao and then, National Shandong University. It was movedto Jinan in 1985 and was reconstructed as Qingdao University. It is a universityconsisting of 23 faculties, including Literature, Science and Engineering, and Teachers’Training, with 38,000 students (including 1,000 foreign students) and 3,400 teachingstaff.---------------------------------* The English versions of Chinese and Korean proper nouns are chosen from among thoseused most commonly when it is not sure which one is the appropriate one. Ms. Noriko Uehara(a teacher of Chinese language at MU) helped me in Chinese proper nouns and Ms.KimJihyun (a techer of Korean language at MU) in Korean ones.