History Nankai University

1 history

1.1 1919–1937
1.2 1937–1949
1.3 1949–1966
1.4 1966–1976
1.5 1976–present
1.6 presidents

history

students of nankai university in 1919



main building of nankai university


1919–1937

the university founded private institution in 1919. nankai s scale relatively small @ inception partly because received no funding government instead funded foreign charitable funds , local entrepreneurs, 3 departments (liberal arts, science, , business) , 96 students. noted particularly courses taught in english using foreign curricula , textbooks. 1937, nankai had expanded university of 3 colleges, 13 departments, , 2 research institutes, boasting 429 students , 110 faculty , staff members. compared north star of higher learning . in accordance motto of dedication public interests, acquisition of all-round capability , aspiration progress each passing day , university has produced batches of prominent talents such premier zhou enlai, dr. shiing-shen chern, dr. ta-you wu , mr. cao yu. well-known nankai institute of economics established in 1927 , became 1 of prominent in china being first non-foreign entity calculate chinese consumer price index.

1937–1949

in july 1937, during sino-japanese war, nankai campus severely damaged japanese bombings. two-thirds of school buildings destroyed including library deliberately burnt down japanese imperial army. number of school s artifacts, including university bell, looted , remain in japanese museums till day.

in august 1937, still during sino-japanese war, nankai university, peking university , tsinghua university united , formed national changsha provisional university, later moved kunming , renamed national southwestern associated university. in 1946, after war, nankai returned tianjin , reformed national university government. @ time, nankai had 4 schools (liberal arts, science, political science , economics, , engineering) , 16 departments.

1949–1966

after establishment of people s republic of china, nankai readjusted , became comprehensive university emphasis on arts , sciences, 14 departments , 3 professional specialties in total. since then, leading scholars zheng tianting, lei haizong, wu tingqiu , many overseas scholars us, europe , japan have come join university.

1966–1976

from 1966 1976 school s normal life out of order due cultural revolution. worse, in 1976 catastrophic earthquake broke out in tangshan bordering tianjin, causing damage of varying degrees school s buildings.

1976–present

second main building of nku

after 1980, nankai added number of new specialties , institutes. in arts, applied specialties on financing set , school of economics reopened in 1983, while in sciences, interdisciplinary, marginal , high , new technological specialties added. late 1980s, nankai university had grown comprehensive university embracing humanities, natural sciences, applied sciences, life sciences, managements , art. in 1994 tianjin foreign trade college merged nankai. in 1999 under combined efforts of nankai , teda, teda college set up. in 2000 state ministry of education signed agreement tianjin municipal government on jointly establishing , developing nankai university. experimental cooperation between nankai university , tianjin university initiated on principle of independent school-running , close cooperation. in 2002 under cooperative efforts of nankai, government of shenzhen , uc berkeley, financial engineering college established in shenzhen.

presidents

zhang boling



zhang boling: 1919–48
he lian (franklin ho): 1948–57 (acting)
yang shixian: 1957–69
vacant due cultural revolution: 1969–78
zang boping: 1978
yang shixian (second term): 1979–81
teng weizao: 1981–86
mu guoguang: 1986–95
hou zixin: 1995–2006
rao zihe: 2006–2011
gong ke: 2011–




^ http://www.nankai.edu.cn/english/
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