Tsinghua University,Free and Independent Spirit
2 min readThe Tsinghua College was establishedin Beijing.China,on 22 April 1911 on the site of aformer royal garden belonging to a prince.It was fundedby the Boxer Rebellion Indemnity Scholarship Program,which consisted of unexpected surplus money from indemnities China had paid to the UnitedStates following the Boxer Rebellion.It was first a preparatory school for students later sent bythe government to study in the United States.The faculty members for sciences were recruitedby the YMCA from the United States and its graduates were transferred directly to Americanschools as juniors upon graduation.In 1925,the school established its College Department andstarted its research institute on Chinese Study.
In 1928,the authority officially changed its name to the National Tsing Hua University(NTHU).During the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937,Tsinghua University along withPeking University and Nankai University,merged to form Changsha Temporary University inChangsha,and later the National Southwestern Associated University in Kunming of Yunnanprovince.After the war,Tsinghua moved back to Beijing and resumed its operation.
After the communist takeover at the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949,which led to thecreation of the People’s Republic of China(PRC),Tsinghua University’s then President Mei YI-Qi.followed by manylquantified] professors,fled to Taiwan where they established the NationalTsing Hua Institute of Nuclear Technology in 1955,which later became the National Tsing HuidUniversity of Taiwan.
In 1952,the Chinese government regrouped the country’s higher education institutions lan attempt to build a Soviet style system,with individual institutions tending tospecialise in acertain field of study.Tsinghua University was disassembled,losing its law school,schoor Magriculture,school of sciences and humanities,and became a polytechnic engineering university.Even so.Tsinghua University remained in the top tier schools in China.In many years followingthis regroup,the school was commonly referred to as the”MIT of China”.But since the 1980s,the university began to incorporate a multidisciplinary system.As a result,several schools werere-incorporated.These included the School of Sciences,School of Business and Management,School of Humanities and Social Sciences,Tsinghua Law School,School of Public Policy andManagement,and the Academy of Arts and Design.
