India and I Da Hsuan Feng Special Advisor

India and I Da Hsuan Feng Special Advisor of the Rector and Director of Global Affairs The University of Macau fengd@umac. mo

My email: fengd@gmail. com My Facebook: 馮達 旋

Today it is practically my life story of two Asia Pacific universities and India!

Did Ph. D in Minnesota Postdoc at U of Texas at Austin Prof of Physics at Drexel University Vice President at SAIC Vice President at University of Texas Program Director at NSF Postdoc in University of Manchester Did sabbatical in Copenhagen In China Before 1949 Did undergrad in New Jersey Born in India Republic of China Grew up in Singapore

From March 2011 – September 2014 I was at the National Tsing Hua University in Hsin Chu, Taiwan

Since September 11, 2014 I came to the University of Macau

While I have never lived in China since 1949, in hindsight, I am intricately tied to it, in immediate family connections, Chinese history and culture.

With my 99 -year-old uncle, Professor Guo. Dong Feng, is an expert in soil mechanics and his daughter. He returned to China in 1952 after completing his studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Before he retires, he was professor of civil engineering at Wuhan University and very active in major Chinese infrastructure constructions!

My life literally began in India, where I was born!

ST MARY'S MEDICAL CENTRE Bandh Road, Phase-VI, Aya Nagar, New Delhi 110047

I believe that was the hospital I was born in, at least it has the name of the hospital I was born in!

I always thought that my short life in India was at best uneventful!

Not true!

Through serendipity, I discovered that an event that was truly profound happened to my family while we were in India.

In hindsight, this event has profound impact not only on me, on what we are doing today!

How I found out about this event was so remarkable that I gave this event a title :

my father!

1937 JD Paul Feng 2009 JD Ian Feng

Since my father passed away in early 1950’s, I knew relatively little about him. So after my son entered the same law school in 2006, on one weekend, I suddenly had the urge to find out more about him.

Almost subconscientiously, I immediately googled him!

Not expecting anything I could get from the search, I typed in Paul Feng India China in my Google search!

What came out caused me to Fall Off My Chair!

January 7, 2001 Manoj Das

…For me, the answer came from the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru. Speaking to Mr. Paul Feng of the Central News Agency, he said on January 20, 1946,

"If China and India hold together, the future of Asia is assured. "

This is the first time I read about such a concept! I was profoundly shocked, and became very bewildered.

I was bewildered because, in view of the little history I know about China and India, this concept never occurred to me as even possible.

Yet this great Indian statesman nearly seven decades ago, just before India became an independent nation, had articulated it so clearly and succinctly!

The key word in these 12 words uttered by Nehru is “hold”. How to hold? What should be the agent of hold? Nehru did not specify. Maybe at that point in the history of India and China, this was not a question? I wonder.

Soon after, my family returned to China.

Visiting Sun Yat-Sen Mausoleum in Nanjing soon after we returned to China

…and China plunged into a bloody civil war, which eventually was won by the Communists. Chiang Kai. Shek and his people retreated to Taiwan the island while holding on to a few tiny islands, such as Quemoy and Matsu, just off the Mainland China’s shore.

1949 onwards since 1911 since 1945

If the concept of a nation is defined by its sovereignty, and the flag is merely a representation of this concept, then the only places that can rightfully “celebrate” the centennial of the Republic of China are Quemoy and Matsu.

Even during the eight years of the war of resistance with the Japanese, Quemoy and Matsu, just like many areas of China, were conquered. They were not colonized like the island of Taiwan was.

My family left China in 1949 when my father was appointed as the English editor of the newspaper Tiger Standard.

Soon after, he died in an air crash.

My mother, a Julliard trained pianist, began her illustrious career as a piano teacher in Singapore. At that time, Singapore was still a British colony, and became independent by joining Malaysia first and later leaving Malaysia.

Paul Abisheganadan, a colleague of my mother.

Paul was of Tamil descent. He was as you can see, quite dark skinned. It gave me the wrong impression that ALL Indians were dark!

From the neck up, this person looks like the elementary school guards in Singapore! Such guards can no longer be found anymore!

Nothing much about India entered my mind until 1962.

st year of senior In my 1 high, something horrible happened:

War broke out between India and China. While the conflict was quite remote from Singapore, I remember there was a great deal of anxiety about its outcome.

I am sure while Nehru was able to foresee the grand Asian picture, this war between these two Asian giants “broke him” and soon after he died.

I understand that the 12 words he uttered in 1946 was one of the sources of severe criticisms by his countrymen in his beloved nation.

What happened in 1962 had consequences even to this day!

Then I went to the United States. As I moved deeper and deeper into a career of physics, more and more Indian institutions came into my cognizance.

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR)

Delhi University

Banaras Hindu University (Now one of the IIT’s)

Madame Irene Curie. Juliet Opening the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics

Bhabha Atomic Research Center

Bose Institute of the University of Calcutta in Kolkata

Satyendra Nath Bose Quantum mechanical “Bosons” 波色子 Bose-Einstein Condensation

As I received more education in physics, I began to learn about how great science flourished in India well before many other Asian countries. Perhaps the most remarkable Indian scientist, who was the first Asian in science to win the Nobel Prize (in 1930) was Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1930 Sir Venkata Raman “for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him. ”

Raman is an all and all Indian Scientist!

By the way, I was asked to review a proposal recently by one of the funding agencies in the US. I rejected it instantly because in the proposal, Raman Effect was spelled “Ramen Effect”! I said that anyone who could not tell the difference between great science and noodles should not be funded!

I should mention that the next Asian who received this accolade was Hideki Yukawa of Japan 19 years later in 1949.

The first two Chinese (and only after they received all their advanced training in the United States) were T D Lee and C N Yang in 1957, some 27 years after Raman.

The best comparison between Chinese and Indian science in the early part of the 20 th century is by noting that when Raman received his Nobel prize in physics in 1930, the two Chinese, Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen-Ning Yang who won the Nobel prize in 1957 were merely 4 and 8 years old respectively!

“Chinese (born in Mainland or Taiwan or North America) Nobel laureates in Sciences” Chen Ning Yang, Physics, 1957 Tsung-Dao Lee, Physics, 1957 Samuel C. C. Ting, Physics, 1976 Yuan Tseh Lee, Chemistry, 1986 Daniel C. Tsui, Physics, 1998 Roger Y. Tsien, Chemistry, 2008 Charles K. Kao, Physics, 2009 None did their pioneering work or most of their scientific professional career in Asia

Nearly every scientist today would know Raman effect. Perhaps in my mind the most remarkable achievement of Raman was that he received his entire education, and did his ground breaking work in India.

th century, except In the 20 during my birth, I only visited India once. That was in 1988 when I gave lectures at the Saha Institute.

That visit was a result of an invitation by my good friends the late Manoj Banajee of the University of Maryland, Manoj Pal of the Saha Institute and M. A. Nagarajan of UK’s Daresbury Laboratory. All have made great achievements in the field of nuclear physics.

Except for nuclear physics which convinced me that India’s science was at a very high level, that visit made no impression on me about India.

An intriguing question is as follows: Where does today India’s intellectual prowess originate from?

One should remember that while the accolade belongs to Raman and Raman only, it must be underscored that great scientific achievements are seldom solo performances. Raman’s achievement must imply that India’s scientific conditions - while it may not have been as robust as in Europe when Raman was doing his work - the culture of world class scientific research must be quite prevalent for him to achieve greatness.

Therefore, if one fast forward to today, it should not come as a surprise that India’s technological prowess did not grow from vacuum. It stood on solid foundations.

Before coming to Taiwan, in 2004, I led a delegation from the University of Texas at Dallas to visit IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi and IIT Roorkee.

In 2003, I met and hosted an IIT directors delegation at the University of Texas at Dallas. On that occasion, I met a large number of IIT North Texas Alumni Association.

I learned how powerful is the IIT Alumni Association!

My visit to India with the late Alan Macdiarmid December 713, 2004

IIT Delhi Acting Director Professor Surendra Prasad with me

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000 Allen Mac. Diarmid "for the discovery and development of conductive polymers". Alan and Director Misra of IITB

This trip gave me a much better sense of India as a nation of enormous complexity.

I came to ROC in September of 2007.

In my first three and a half years in National Cheng Kung University, while I climbed a very steep learning curve to understand ROC and PRC, India was not part of my equation.

During those three and a half years, I saw a significant and positive change in the so-called “cross straits” relationship. In fact, the “hostility” between PRC and ROC has de facto vanished in reality, and more important, in the minds of people on both shores.

Remarkably, since coming to National Tsing Hua University 36 months ago, I began to think about ROC in the context of India and Mainland China. What led me to this train of thought is the following.

First of all, National Tsing Hua University is joined at the hips with Beijing Tsinghua University, which is one of the intellectually and politically most powerful universities in Mainland China. This linkage provided a natural platform for me as NTHU’s Senior Vice President in charge of global strategy to gain a deeper appreciation of the intricate relationship between ROC and PRC.

It also drew for me a roadmap, however blurry at the moment, of the long term relationship of the two shores.

Secondly, little did I know that prior to my arrival, President Lih J. Chen and Vice President for Global Affairs Wei-Chung Wang had already developed a fledging effort with India. After my arrival, I saw and participated in a number of robust activities.

It is very interesting before coming to NTHU, my background, knowledge and interest of India had no platform to leverage what they could do.

英雄無用武之地 A hero without opportunity to exercise his might!

These activities were spiritually led by President Chen and actively developed with relevant Offices, Colleges and Departments throughout campus by the Office of Global Affairs.

2011年 4月，陳校長率領清華大學 團隊和吳清基部長訪問印度.

2011年 8月 1日 印度金德爾全球大學簽署 設立台灣教育中心 。

2011年 11月，溤副校長代表陳校長帶領清 華大學龐大的代表團到 Amity大學設立第 二所 TEC

OP Jindal大學的學生 慶祝 2012中秋節

去年九月與 Jain大 學 討論合作

I was called a “ROCk star” in Bangalore, although I was not singing as a ROCk star!

So what is now my view of India since coming to National Tsing Hua University? What is or could be our strategy?

India’s Globalization of Soft Power From ancient to today!

Brazil, Russia, India Indonesia and China (BRIIC)

Nobel prize in literature 1913 Rabindranath Tagore (1861 -1941) "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West".

Nobel prize in literature 2000 Gao Xingjian (b. 1940) 高行建 "for an œuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity, which has opened new paths for the Chinese novel and drama".

which has opened new paths for the Chinese novel and drama (giving Asia respect!) expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West (a touch of colonialism. ) ,

th century 19 Built on the Renaissance as the underpinning, European universities became the intellectual epic center of the world!

Leonardo da Vinci (1452 -1519) Francis Bacon (1561 -1626) Nicolaus Copernicus (1483 -1546) Rene Descartes (1596 -1650) Martin Luther (1483 -1546)

Maxwell equations give a complete understanding of electromagnetic “radiation”

Maxwell 1831 - 1879 Chopin 1810 - 1849

Maxwell Equations Chopin Nocturne

Europe in the 19 th century, with its powerful intellectual supremacy (soft power) drove great cultural and technological developments mankind had ever known. This bestowed young people in Europe with inherent self confidence!

Europe changed the world (for the better)!

The rise of North America economic and intellectual prowess (soft power, ) especially United States in the 20 th century.

th century First half of 20

When Europe and Asia were turned upside down by WWI and WWII, North America was like a castle protected by a moat﹗

Supreme excellence ! Without WWII and without deep and inhumane Anti-Semitic sentiment, it was inconceivable that such a massive supreme brain drain would happen in such a short time from Europe to North America.

Jascha Heifetz 1901 -1981 Isaac Stern 1920 -2001

The vitalization of intellectual landscape allowed a significant number of North American universities to quantum jump in quality. By the middle of the 20 th century, many North American universities became the envy of the world.

North America changed the world (for the better)!

New Paradigm for Asia….

Can Asia change the world (for the better)?

th century to 21 st 20 century, ……… From colonial era to global power

January 7, 2001 Manoj Das

http: //www. burmalibrary. org/reg. burm a/archives/200101/msg 00016. html An absolutely memorizing article!

“…We in India have debated as much as other Asian countries have, about issues like the desirability of Western influence on our culture, its inevitability or otherwise, and the relation between tradition and modernity.

Like the May Fourth Movement in China which championed western values and ideals in the 1920 s, we too had voices against our traditions and they were given a reasonable hearing. An exchange in experiences of this kind would no doubt be highly educative.

For quite some time, Indian literature for the common Englishman meant what Rudyard Kipling and the like wrote. For long, India's window as well as that of the West on Chinese life has been Pearl S. Buck's Good Earth.

But when I read Lu Hsun, a number of his short stories and The True Story of Ah Q, I realised that despite the realism in the works of Pearl Buck and other gifted writers, Lu Hsun's work had an authenticity that could be expected only of a native of China. I do not propose to display my meagre knowledge of Chinese literature here, but what I propose is a strong and wellplanned academy of Asian literatures to take care of the great need to know one another.

And who could take any effective step in that direction? For me, the answer came from the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru.

Twelve words, twelve simple words "If China and India hold together, the future of Asia is assured. "

This holding together need not be confined to diplomacy; it can, by all means, be a psychological force that can work wonders in the realms of creativity…. ”

亞洲發展銀行 Upon the Closing at the Conference on Global Financial Crisis, in relation to Industrial Restructuring, I made the following remarks:

Throughout the 20 th century, Asia was psychologically “coupled” to the West, and understandably so. With superior economic and intellectual strengths, it is quite natural that Asia viewed the West as the ‘standard of excellence. ’ However, after such a period as this with the West so palpably exposing its social & economic weaknesses, this may be the first time in the modern global economy that Asia can psychologically “DECOUPLE” from the West.

This is not to suggest that Asia should decouple economically and intellectually from the West; rather, I am talking about a “psychological decoupling” to undo a sense of reliance on the West, without which it is unlikely that Asia will develop a deep sense of inherent self-confidence and without which the 21 st century is surely not to be the “Asian Century. ”

Asia will develop a deep sense of inherent selfconfidence and without which the 21 st century is surely not to be the “Asian Century. ”

從心理上與 西方脫鉤 ! Psychological decoupling!

India and PRC, with 40% of the world’s population, both nations are extraordinarily education centric, with rich and complex history, with robust cultures, strong in science and technology and sit next to each other with over 3000 kilometers of borders.

Yet, it is indeed unfortunate that for these two nations, history has not been kind to their mutual relationship, thus rendering them st an awkward disposition in the 21 century. Still, in many ways, India and PRC are certainly as starkly different as they are strikingly similar.

I dare to say that for the tranquility of Asia and the st century, world in the 21 India and PRC should and need to have the best of relations.

It is thinking in this context that makes me particularly excited to think about how ROC could play in this arena, a role which I believe is unique in the world.

India PRC ROC

Proton Meson Proton

Proton

For these two protons to have power, they need to bind together. What bind them is the “meson”!

1. 2 billion 1. 4 billion

Taiwan and Macau, both deeply rooted in Chinese culture, “squeezed” in between two massive and st century powerful 21 nations, could play a very flexible role.

As Taiwan’s former representative Ong said it succinctly, our understanding of the PRC is unlike other nations which depended on books.

Ours is with our DNA。

As you all know, in the past decade, partially because of the economic rise of China, there is in India a noticeable surge of interest in Chinese ways and means. During my recent visits to India, I noticed that such interest is by no means confined to only Chinese languages, although that may have been the initial incentive, but to the cultures, the thinking processes and deep rooted social habits.

Indeed, in general, Chinese ways and means.

The most obvious rise of this interest is that Indian government is requesting all of its secondary schools, if possible, to offer Chinese as a third language. For a nation of 1. 2 billion, such a request would constitute a herculean human engineering effort.

"If China and India hold together, the future of Asia is assured. "

Nehru in another era of India and China relations, felt inherently that the two need to “hold” together.

He did not say, and maybe at his time he need not say what was the agent of “hold”. After all, when those 12 words were uttered, China just emerged from eight years of the bloody war of resistance with the Japanese and India was about to gain independence. Both nations futures are unchartered, if not uncertain.

I am sure Nehru felt intrinsically that by themselves separately, China and India could exert great global influence. Together, they could render the world truly exciting for humanity!

It is conceivable that if India and China were to “hold” together, they could create an intellectual superiority that is not known in history of mankind!

It was truly unfortunate for Nehru that he lived long enough to see the “breaking up” of relations between India and China. That war of 1962 was, I am sure, deeply painful for him as a great visionary, and seeing the vision vaporizing before his eyes.

However, if only Nehru could st know what happens in the 21 century that China and India became world powers, and that the war of 1962 prevented the two great powers from “holding together”,

he would unquestionably be furiously seeking the “hold” agent!

Therefore, Mr. Nehru, seek no more. Taiwan and Macau are the agents. The people there are the “holding agents” that can play the role as “mesons” between the two giants!

India and I started more than six decades ago. Yet it was not until I came to National Tsing Hua University and the University of Macau that I began to truly feel that my haze in understanding India began to lift!

The robust activities with India from National Tsing Hua University and University of Macau is now as clear as sunrise!

These deep connections to the Mainland, history and otherwise, and with their now robust activities in India, the words of Nehru finally have meaning!

I am also deeply gratified that with my more than six decades of interaction with India, I could play a part in this monumental mission for Asia and for the world.

Thank you, Mr. Nehru!

Thank you so much for your attention!