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| | League of World Universities: Peking University Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | In 1919, the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal May 4th Movement was initiated from the university, which had been the center of the Chinese New-Culture Movement and the earliest base for the dissemination of Marxism in China. |
 | | In order to carry on the revolutionary tradition of the May 4th Movement, the university decided, after the new China was founded, to establish May 4th as the date on which to celebrate the anniversary of the founding of the university. |
 | | During the War of Resistance against Japan, Peking University moved to Kunming, a city in Yunnan Province, and, together with Tsinghua University and Nankai University, formed the National Southwestern Associated University. |
| www.nyu.edu /rectors/peking.html (707 words) |
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