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Seoul Chinese Elementary School 韓國漢城華僑小學
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Myeong-dong, downtown Seoul, is home to not only Seoul’s main cathedral and many boutiques, but also a tiny Chinatown, and this elementary school is a part. It is notable that it refers to Seoul by its old name Hancheng (漢城), which remained Seoul’s official Chinese name until 2005.
Korea is a monoethnic society, but there has always been a Chinese minority. Although the port city of Incheon is the only Korean city to have an official Chinatown, Seoul’s Myeong-dong has also hosted a tiny unofficial Chinatown of sorts, as it has been home to the Chinese embassy since the 1880s. The term 華僑 ("hwagyo" in Korean), which can technically refer to any overseas Chinese, is used in Korean context to specifically refer to ethnic Chinese of Korean origin.
The Chinese community in Korea was destroyed by discriminatory legislation by the Park Chung-hee military dictatorship in 1962. He carried out a currency reform, partly to render the huge cash savings of the ethnic Chinese worthless. The Chinese also were facing severe limits on their rights to own property or conduct business in South Korea. Nearly all Chinese-Koreans had Republic of China nationality, and naturalizing as a South Korean was not a viable option. Eventually most of them left for greener pastures in Taiwan or North America. A once-ample Chinese minority in South Korea was down to a mere 26,000 by the early 1990s.
Today, South Korea is far more welcoming to the Chinese. Since diplomatic ties were established with People’s Republic of China in 1992, many Chinese people came to Korea for work opportunities; today, there are over 300,000 Chinese in Korea, though a sizable number of them are actually ethnic Koreans from Yanbian Korean Autonomous Region, in Jilin Province near the North Korean border. Ethnic Koreans from China (or anywhere else), who can prove that their ancestors had left Korea after 1922, are eligible for special rights that are reserved for overseas Koreans and not available to Han Chinese or other foreigners. (Overseas Koreans, just by virtue of ancestry, can qualify for just about everything, except voting and military duty, and also have easier time acquiring South Korean nationality.)
In addition, usage of Chinese characters, discouraged for nationalistic reasons, is now encouraged again, and lessons for Mandarin Chinese (in fact, offered at this school for the Korean public) are in huge demand, next only to the Koreans’ notorious penchant for lessons for American English.
2009.07.03
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Drawing of the rear elevation of Deseronto High School.
Part of a reproduction of a plan by the architect Thomas Hanley of Belleville for the Deseronto High School, c.1889.
The Tribune of January 10, 1890, carried the following report on the opening of the school:
The Opening
On Tuesday, January 7th, 1890, in a practical, business-like manner, characteristic of the industrial centre, the Deseronto High School was declared open for the high functions to which it will hereafter be devoted. There were no orations by eminent eductationists, no interchange of empty compliments by civic officials, no devotional chanting of national anthems, but without waste of time, teachers, after a few prefatory remarks, commenced to assign duties to their respective classes. This event, it is unnecessary to state, marks the beginning of another important era in the history of Deseronto. By the opening of the High School the educational system of our young town may be said to be completed. Notwithstanding the rapid growth of the population, the public school board have in the past endeavoured to give suitable educational facilities and maintain the efficiency of the schools. It has been felt, however, that more was needed, and that without a high school the youth of Deseronto were in an educational point of view, placed at the disadvantage. This defect was the more severely felt, inasmuch as our population is chiefly composed of working men who generally found that it entailed too great an expense to send their children elsewhere to take a course at a high school. For these and other reasons it was finally decided to establish a high school in Deseronto, and the necessary appropriation was made by the town council, the work commenced and speedily carried forward to completion. The result is the handsome edifice opened on Tuesday and by all visitors conceded most creditable to the enterprise of the citizens of this important town. Notwithstanding the prevailing epidemic of influenza forty two pupils have been already enrolled and the prospects are bright for a large attendance in the not distant future. The school is thoroughly equipped with all the modern appliances and in this respect holds a unique position in this pert of Ontario. Mr. A. G. Knight, B. A, a distinguished graduate of Victoria College, end lately principal of the Campbellford High School, who has a provincial reputation as a successful educationist is Headmaster and takes charge of the English and Classical departments. He is assisted by Mr. I. D. Breads, late of Sydenham high school, an experienced teacher, who will take the Science and Mathematics departments. The members of the High School Board are energetic gentlemen and with such a competent staff and intelligent classes of pupils, Deseronto High School must soonassume a prominent position among the educational institutions of this great province.
The Building
The building is situated on a piece of land three acres in extent secured from the Mohawk of Tyendinaga Reserve for the purpose, end which faces on Brant, Thomas, and a new street recently opened up by the council. The site is most healthy and commanding and a grand view of the Bay of Quinte and surrounding country is obtained from the school windows and observatory. Visitors all express themselves delighted with the outlook which rewards an ascent to the tower. The edifice which is 60×64 ft in dimensions consists of three stories and a basement, or practically of four stories as the basement is thoroughly finished, bright and airy. The basement is built of limestone and the next two stories of brick, with a mansard roof above. The whole is surmounted by a tower 30 feet high and attaining an altitude of 72 feet above the ground, the bell on the flag staff being 100 feet above mother earth. The basement contains two large playrooms for boys and girls, or as we are describing a high school, for young ladies and gentlemen respectively. It is also furnished with the Smead, Dowd & Co. system of ventilation and closets now rapidly coming into use in the better class of school building in this province. On the first floor are two classrooms each 251,34 ft, with library 17×17 ft and the necessary lobbies and passages. On the next flat are also two class rooms each 25×34 ft with chemical laboratory 17×17 ft furnished with suitable tables, disks, etc. On the third floor is the large assembly room 50×34 ft with raised stage, dressing rooms, &c., in which will be held commencement and other exercises open to the public. The two principal flats are furnished in natural wood oiled; the basement and assembly room are painted and all the floors throughout the building are oiled. The whole building has been arranged and piped for gas. Wash basins and hat and cloak rooms are found on every floor. There are two large main entrances and the different stairways are all easy of ascent. The edifice is well lighted in every part by the large windows. The appearance of the exterior of the building is relieved by a heavy cornice and barge boards for ornamental purposes on the three sides fronting the street. In fine, nothing has been left undone to make the high school building complete in every particular and there is but one expression of opinion, viz. that the building is creditable in every respect to the Town of Deseronto.Contractors, &c.
The building was planned and designed by Mr. Thomas Hanley, the well known architect of Belleville, and all the work has been performed under his careful and constant supervision. The contract for its erection was given to the Rathbun Company, of Deseronto, the direction of the work being given to Mr. Wm. Irvine, Superintendent of the Sash and Door Factory department of the Company’s business. Mr. Robert Massie of the same department, satisfactorily performed his duties of clerk of the works. The mason work was entrusted to the Messrs. Manley Bros., of Belleville; Mr. G. E. Clement, of Deseronto, did the carpentering work; Mr. Frank Dolan, of Belleville, had the plastering; McKelvey & Birch, of Kingston, the plumbing and gas piping and Mr. Wm. Graham, of the Rathbun Company sash factory, the painting, glazing, &c. The desks, seats and other furniture are from the Globe Furniture Company of Walkerville. The contractors broke ground for excavation on the 27" of June and had their contract finished at New Year’s, showing that the work must have been carried forward with great energy.
(sweet) colors of socialism
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a piece of stained glass in Alanta School of Technology and Business, Lithuania
