Jinan University

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Jinan school

In 1906, Duan Fang, then governor of Liangjiang, wrote to Emperor Guangxu, asking for permission for "overseas Chinese from Nanyang islands, Honolulu, San Francisco, etc." to return to Nanjing to study in order to "enrich the overseas Chinese's education". After preparation, the school site was selected in Nanjing xuejiaxiang Miao Xiang an. It is located in the center of Nanjing City, to the south of Drum Tower, to the north of chanting tower, and to the northwest of Jinling University.

On March 23, 1907, Jinan school officially opened. The first batch of 21 students are all returned overseas Chinese from Java, most of whom are from Guangdong.

On August 28, 1907, pan Lizhai and Liang Yingtang, directors of Batavia Chinese Association, escorted 10 overseas Chinese to Nanjing to study.

In May 1908, the third group of 46 overseas Chinese from Nanyang islands arrived in Nanjing.

The early Jinan students were generally at the age of thirteen or fourteen. They were far away from their hometown and their parents, traveled a lot of oceans, and had no ability to take care of themselves. In addition, when they came to places where their language habits and living environment were quite strange, they were generally difficult to adapt. Therefore, the school adopts the "family school system". All the facilities are arranged in imitation of the family to manage the students. According to the habits of the students, the bad ones are corrected. Duan Fang, governor of Liangjiang, took good care of the overseas Chinese and gave them preferential treatment. He stipulated that the overseas Chinese should be exempted from tuition, board and lodging except for their own clothes and pocket money. Winter and summer uniforms will be issued every year. The school also provides free medical treatment for overseas Chinese students.

In October 1911, Wuchang was first established, and all provinces responded one after another. After Zhang Xun, who was stationed in Nanjing, led the "pigtail army" to attack Nanjing City, he once carried artillery to Jinan school. Most of the overseas Chinese returned to Nanyang, a small part of them joined the revolutionary army, and Jinan school was closed. In the early years of the Republic of China, Yuan Shikai stole the presidency. He was afraid that the revolutionary party would threaten his regime and that "Jinan was all revolutionary parties", so he had a negative attitude towards the resumption of Jinan. As a result, most of the young overseas Chinese at that time either lost their schooling overseas, or stayed in the mainland, or were displaced.

At that time, celebrities in the education sector and overseas Chinese strongly urged the government to restore Jinan school as soon as possible. Not only did the overseas Chinese students in Jinan send out the request to resume school, but Selangor, the director general of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics of the Ministry of communications, and ye Zhaosong, the representative of overseas Chinese, also jointly presented the request to the director general of education in 1912. They believed that the Jinan school opened in the late years of the reign of Emperor Guangxu had contributed greatly to the fact that "since the founding of Nanjing, the overseas Chinese have been in harmony with the mainland for five years, and the Dutch government's treatment of our overseas Chinese is the same as it used to be Difference: those who were not allowed to set up primary schools in the past will now listen to my setting up primary schools; those who were not allowed to set up secondary schools will now listen to my setting up secondary schools. "

In 1917, the war stopped. On November 1, the Ministry of education finally approved the restoration of Jinan school and appointed Huang Yanpei, director of Jiangsu Education Department, as the organizer.

National Jinan school

On March 1, 1918, the tutorial course of Jinan school officially opened. The school was officially renamed "national Jinan school".

In May 1918, the university decided to modify the regulations after research, and submitted them to the Ministry of education of the Beiyang Government: "all those who graduated from primary school in China, whose father or brother or protector is now running a business in Nanyang, and whose overseas Chinese students in normal education department have vacancies, and whose domestic students have the desire to go to Nanyang as teachers, and have equivalent qualifications, can apply the admission procedures and be allowed to enter the school."

National Jinan University

In 1923, in order to adapt to the increasing number of students and establish the University Department, Jinan school moved from Nanjing to Zhenru in Shanghai.

In June 1927, after Zhao Zhengping and Jiang Qi, Zheng Hongnian succeeded Jinan president. After he became the president of Jinan University, Zheng hongnianli changed business into a business school. On this basis, he added five schools, namely, the agricultural college, the College of Arts and philosophy, the Academy of natural sciences, the Academy of Social Sciences and the Academy of Arts, and expanded Jinan University into the only overseas Chinese University at that time, the national Jinan University.

Since then, Jinan University has entered a period of comprehensive development. First of all, Jinan University reorganized the original business university into a business school, and then successively added a school of Arts, a school of science, a school of education and a school of law. At the same time, it is attached with a middle school department, in which the high school department has general subjects, business subjects, normal subjects and agricultural subjects, while the Middle School Department has no subjects. In addition, there was a special specialty - diplomatic and consular section, which was unique at that time. The school's hardware facilities are also quite large, including teaching buildings, dormitories, laboratories, sports fields, etc. As the highest institution for overseas Chinese at that time, the school also set up a special research institution, Nanyang American Culture Department, to study the overseas Chinese issues in Nanyang and America, and edited the quarterly of Nanyang studies and Nanyang series. Students are encouraged to carry out academic research and their research results are published in Journal of national Jinan University. Jinan University also attaches great importance to students' physical exercise, and has provided many athletes for the Chinese national team. Many of them have represented China in the past far east games and the 11th Olympic Games held in Berlin, Germany in 1936. Such as Chen Zhenhe and Xu Yahui of football team, Cai Yanxiong, Wang Nanzhen and Yin Guiren of basketball team, Hao Chunde, Fu Jincheng (Sprint) and Fu Baolu (pole vault) of track and field team, etc.

In 1937, the Anti Japanese war broke out. In 1938, Jinan University moved to Shanghai public concession.

On December 8, 1941, the Pacific War broke out, the Shanghai concession was occupied by the Japanese army, and Jinan University was transferred to Jianyang, Fujian Province.

In August 1945, the Anti Japanese war was won. Jinan University began to move back to Shanghai. He Bingsong worked so hard to find a suitable campus, but he was sent to the National University of England as president by a transfer order. He once sent a telegram to Ruan Yicheng, a student, saying that he was ready to devote himself to his life. However, due to long-term overwork, he died in Shanghai in July 1946 at the age of 56.

In June 1946, national Jinan University moved back to Shanghai from Jianyang, Fujian. The Zhenru school, which represented the most glorious period of Jinan University before liberation, had been burned down by the Japanese invaders. The national government allocated two former Japanese schools, Baoshan Road and dongtiyuhui road in Shanghai, as the sites of national Jinan University. The university has restored its law school and added two departments of Journalism and anthropology, with a total of four colleges, 17 departments and one academic group. The school of Arts and the school of law are located on Baoshan Road, and the school of business, the school of science and the Department of the university are located on dongtiyuhui road. After Jinan University was demobilized and returned to Shanghai, affected by the civil war, the proportion of overseas Chinese students was very low.

From the end of 1946 to the beginning of 1947, the anti American and anti riot struggles broke out in Colleges and universities in Peking and Shanghai, and the May 20 movement against hunger, oppression and civil war broke out in May. Jinan patriotic students always stood in the forefront of the struggle team and were one of the main forces of the two struggles. Therefore, Jinan University was also known as the "southeast democratic fortress".

In 1949, only 20 faculty members and 40 students of Jinan University chased Li Shouyong, who was president at any time, to Taiwan.

On May 27, 1949, Shanghai was liberated. In June, Jinan University was taken over by the Shanghai military Regulatory Commission. On July 12, Professor Chen Bingxiang of Jinan University asked the CMC to cancel the Department of anthropology. The reason was that the content of anthropology was "a reactionary course", the number of students was very small, and "more departments should be transferred". On August 20, the Shanghai Municipal military control commission of the Chinese people's Liberation Army issued the No.1 Military Education order, restoring Jinan University to an overseas Chinese higher education institution. The original colleges of Arts, law, business and science were merged into Fudan University and Jiaotong University, the Department of geography was merged into Nanjing University (formerly known as Central University), and the Department of anthropology was merged into Zhejiang University. Jinan University was temporarily suspended. In 1950, Jinan University still existed, but there were no students.

In 1958, with the support of Tao Zhu, then the first Secretary of Guangdong provincial Party committee, Jinan University was able to rebuild in Guangzhou. Tao Zhu was the first principal after the reconstruction.

In 1966, when the "Cultural Revolution" began, Jinan University stopped recruiting students, but there were still more than 1000 people in the University.

In January 1970, Lin Biao wanted to move the First Military Medical University to Guangzhou to replace Jinan University. He verbally said that the State Council had agreed to transfer Jinan University, which was "empty" to the military. In February, it orally informed the reform committee of Jinan University, announced the cancellation of Jinan University, and determined the relocation plan on February 12. Five days later, the report on the cancellation of Jinan University was drafted. On March 5, the Guangdong Provincial Revolutionary Committee officially issued a notice to cancel Jinan University.

In 1978, Jinan University was re established.

In 1979, the school began to recruit and train graduate students.

In 1981, it became one of the first universities in China to confer academic degrees.

By 1988, children of overseas Chinese had accounted for 90% of the total number of college students.

In June 1993, with the approval of the Ministry of education and the overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council, Guangzhou Overseas Chinese students' tutorial school was merged into Jinan University, and with the Department of teaching Chinese as a foreign language and Preparatory Department of Jinan University, the school of Chinese language of Jinan University was established.

In June 1996, Jinan University became a national key university facing the 21st century (211 Project).

In 1999, it was selected into the first batch of national college students' cultural quality education bases.

In 2000, Jinan University became the first "overseas Chinese Education Office of the State Council"

Chinese PinYin : Ji Nan Da Xue