 Yr ydydd y Prif Weinidog. Yr ydych chi'n gweithio'r ysgolwyr, ond yn 2013, sy'n cael eu bodi'n gweithio'r ysgolwyr ar y Llyfrgell Llyfrgell, mae'n gweithio'r cysylltu, yn ymgyrchol, ond i'r cymdeithas iawn a'r cymdeithas iawn yn y ffordd y ffaith, ymgyrchu ymgyrchu a'r ysgolwyr ymgyrchu. Yn ymgyrchu'r ysgolwyr, ymgyrchu'r cymdeithas iawn, ymgyrchu'r cymdeithas iawn, a'r cymdeithas iawn, ymgyrchu'r cymdeithas iawn. Yn ymgyrchu ymgyrchu, ymgyrchol yn ymgyrchol, mae'n gweithio'r cymdeithas iawn, a'n gweithio'r cymdeithas iawn i'r cymdeithas iawn. Yn ymgyrchu'r ymgyrchol, ym 1948, ywch yn ymgyrchol ar y Llyfrgell ym 1967, ym Llyfrgell, ymgyrchol ar y Llyfrgell, ym 1977. While she long career at the Library, including her completing a PhD under William Watson at the Perseval David Foundation of Chinese Art in 1984,acious or co-curated numerous exhibitions, such as a major one called Chinese Print Making Today, which travelled widely across the British Isles. She also produced many important publications. Some of these books have achieved attention far beyond the area of Chinese art and culture from the very early era o berthynas ar ddechrau a'r ddechrau. Ac yn fawr, ac yn ddechrau ddechrau'r ddechrau, sy'n ei angen yn fawr o'r bobl o'ch ddechrau a'r ddechrau, ac mae'n ddau'r bobl yn ddechrau, neu yw'r bobl yn ddechrau, yng nghinsgol a'r bobl yn ddechrau, mae'r bobl yn ei cerddurio'r bobl, rydyn ni'n 100 o'ch bod yn oed, neu yw'r bobl yn ymddiol yw'r bobl yn ddechrau, ac yw'r bobl yn oed yn gweithio. ..ynghwylwch y maen nhw'n ddweud y bwysig, y ffwydbindig... ..y'r amser Chynes a'r Gweithgawd. Yn ychydig o'r tîm, Roedd ydw i'n gweld... ..y'r ffordd o'r ffordd o'r ffordd o'r ffordd o'r bwysig... ..on y ffordd. Yn ychydig o'r llei'r ffordd o'r ffordd o'r ffordd o'r ffordd o'r ffordd o'r ffordd... ..y'r ffordd o'r ffordd o'r ffordd o'r ffordd o'r ffordd... 2000, oedd ychydig i'r cymorth yw'r ysgrifennu ar y cyflawni hwnnw, ystod y ddweud y ddweud yng Nghymru i'r Chynig, sy'n ddweud yng nghymru ar y ddweud yng Nghymru, o'r ddweud yng nghymru ar y ddweud yng Nghymru, yn 1975-76. Mae ydw i'r cyflwytaeth yw'r cyflwytaeth yn gyflawni, syrwyr, ac ydw i'r cyflwytaeth, ond ydydd yna'r ddweud yng nghymru i'r ddweud, a'r ddweud yng nghymru, If her the lure of China is evocative, her guide books including the blue guide to China for which she tape recorded her way around the country and companion to China illustrate her judgment, good sense and sheer commitment. Francis Wood was an advocate for China long before this came into vogue in the west since the turn of the century. She has been at the heart of the UK's historically tight-knit group of sinologists as an early member of the Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding, a fellow of the 48 Group Club and a member of the Steering Committee of the International Dunhuang Project. She has long been a reliable British authority on China, whether for lunches at Downing Street or evenings at the Embassy. She would balk, however, at being seen as an insider. Rather, she is, in the best sense of the term, a public intellectual. She's been a frequent contributor to BBC Radio 4 programmes like In Our Time and on topics far beyond Marco Polo. She even represented her alma mater Newnham College Cambridge on a Christmas special of university challenge in 2012. Her scholarly output, her career and indeed her status as a living national treasure were celebrated when she was invited to be a castaway on desert island discs in 2010. She spoke passionately about the Diamond Sutra, the exemplar of the earliest printing in China in the collection of the British Library. She has since not shied away from reminding our research institutions that research should be at the heart of what they do. Wood has been and continues to be an experienced and always engaging interpreter of China to diverse audiences both in the UK and in China. She is as comfortable drawing on her research on the historical Silk Road to address a conference of business and planning leaders in China today as she is engaging with school teachers and school children visiting the Chinese collections in the British Library. Launching a volume of scholarly research or teaching on the SOAS postgraduate diploma course in Chinese art. Simply put, Francis Wood is much cherished by so many people from all over the world. The respect and admiration of those individuals, including many of those she has taught, underpinned the founding of the Francis Wood Appreciation Society, which continues to meet regularly in London to celebrate her and what she has done. Not just her scholarship, but also her passion, her wit and her mature attitude to China and Chinese culture. Having nominated Francis for this honorary doctorate from SOAS on the occasion of her retirement, I was honoured to be invited to deliver this citation. It gives me the greatest pleasure to see Francis receive this award today, despite her modesty, in recognition of her many outstanding achievements and her distinguished contribution to public life in the field of Chinese art and culture. Thank you so very much. I feel very overwhelmed. I think it's quite important perhaps to point out that one of the things that Shane missed out of my curriculum vita was my rather unsuccessful period as a very junior librarian in SOAS. Almost whenever I come into SOAS, I still have that sense of being a very junior member of staff. I joined the library more than 30 years ago, as I say, a very junior member of staff, and failed miserably to ascend the great ladder of promotion. I remember there were various carrots offered by the librarian. He would say, do a PhD and we'll see. So I did a PhD and saw nothing. His next offer was that I should obtain a library qualification and we would see about promotion. But that was a step too far for me. My father, who ended his career as principal keeper of the Department of Printed Books in the British Museum, had attempted to gain library qualifications before the Second World War. He found the course unutterally boring, failed the exams and retained a lifelong prejudice against people with library qualifications. So I obtained no library qualifications during my time at SOAS, but I am eternally grateful to SOAS for various aspects of its support for me in my work and life. It gave me the support to struggle through the PhD with Professor Watson, and I must also thank SOAS for allowing me to take a year's leave off to go to China, as Shane mentioned, on a British Council scholarship in 1975. Though 1975 to 1976 was a very peculiar year in China, it was the last year of the Cultural Revolution, although we did not know it at the time, but it had a very profound effect on me. My language improved immeasurably and I had a wonderful time taking photographs of old buildings and measuring houses for my PhD. Ever since then, I have greatly enjoyed writing about China and Chinese history. My aim has simply always been just to pass on my fascination with this very different culture. In recent years, I've also been lucky enough, I think, to lecture on the diploma in Asian Arts, which is held at SOAS, run by Hattie. These diploma courses attract the most interesting students, just like all of the rest of you here, interesting students who make teaching so amazingly pleasurable. And I also think sometimes when I spend a weekend in the countryside and fantasise about living in rural isolation, how lucky I am to live in London with access to SOAS. There are fascinating lectures of all sorts that semi-outsiders like myself can attend, attending seminars run by people like Professor Hawks or Shane. They expand our knowledge and refresh our interest and I'm terribly honoured to feel that I've got a very small part in this great institution. I'd finally like to say too that I recommend to all of you the library at SOAS. When I was there, even though I was very junior, in the 1970s, it was the most important research library for Chinese, certainly in Europe and possibly further. As I remember, librarians from Leiden coming and spending months photocropping so much material in SOAS, which was unique to Europe. And SOAS Library has more recently helped me greatly. I was invited to give a lecture at the Globe Theatre in London when they were putting on a production of Richard III in Chinese. So giving a lecture there seemed to me to be a very important thing, but I was horrified to discover that the British Library in its wisdom had sent its two copies of Richard III in Chinese up to the north of England and lost them. However, as I panicked, I found a copy in SOAS. So in small ways and in large ways, SOAS has done a great deal for me and I'm deeply honoured by this event today. Thank you very much.