From Tsinghua Xuetang to Tsinghua University. 1928~1937: Research on Modern Chinese Higher Education

Author: Su Yunfeng
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Publish Date: 2001-08-01
Features: Founded in the early 20th century, Tsinghua, a modern Chinese school, reflects to some extent the process of modernization in China. However, "Tsinghua College was established with funds returned from the United States, and was a new preparatory school for studying abroad outside the Chinese education system," which made its historical mission greatly different from other modern higher education institutions. Tsinghua, the dream of countless young people, from Tsinghua College to Tsinghua University, from Luo Jialun to lifelong president Mei Yiqi. This book is a sequel to From Tsinghua College to Tsinghua University (1911-1929), introducing the nine years before the war when Tsinghua rapidly developed into a first-class university in China. Tsinghua has good school leaders, first-class teaching and research environments, a strong faculty, excellent traditions, and a system of professor-led governance. It implements a rigorous liberal arts education, which enables its graduates to achieve outstanding performance and significant contributions in various important fields. In the turbulent and powerless higher education environment of modern China, Tsinghua is a rare model.