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 Private university - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John's University and Aurora University in Shanghai, Yenching University in Beijing (Peking), and Ginling Women's University and University of Nanking in Nanjing (Nanking).
British universities have institutional autonomy, which is well respected as it has developed over centuries, but in the first half of the 20th century they came to rely on the government for most of their funding.
The only university which is wholly privately financed is the University of Buckingham, which has a low profile within the UK and caters largely for overseas students.
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 University of Nanking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The University of Nanking (金陵大学) was a Christian university founded in 1888 in Nanjing, China.
In 1910, The Nanking University merged The Union Christian College (宏育书院, Hongyu Shuyuan, formed in 1900 by the merger of The Christian College (基督书院, Jidu Shuyuan, founded in 1891) and The Presbyterian College (益智书院, Yizhi Shuyuan, founded in 1894)) and changed the name to Private University of Nanking (金陵大学).
In 1952, University of Nanking was merged with Nanjing University (南京大学).
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/University_of_Nanking   (205 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Nanjing University
National Central University was reinstated in Taiwan under the ROC in 1962.
University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (also known as Cal, UC Berkeley, The University of California, or simply Berkeley) is a public coeducational university situated east of the San Francisco Bay in Berkeley, California, overlooking the Golden Gate.
Alumni of the University of Nanking (merged in 1952) Chiang Kai-shek (October 31, 1887–April 5, 1975) was a Chinese military and political leader who assumed the leadership of the Kuomintang (KMT) after the death of Sun Yat-sen in 1925.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Nanjing-University   (4420 words)

  
 Nanjing University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nanjing University (南京大学, 南京大學, Pinyin: Nánjīng Dàxué; colloquially 南大, Pinyin Nándà) is one of the oldest higher learning institutions in the world, and became the first modern Chinese university in the early 1920s.
Nanjing University was originally founded as the Imperial Central College (南京太學, Nanjing Taixue) at Nanjing in 258 under the Kingdom of Wu by the emperor Sun Xiu.
The "Natural Science Forum" was founded by the faculties of the university in 1939 and it founded the "China Association of Scientific Workers" (中國科學工作者協會) in 1944.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nanjing_University   (1474 words)

  
 Nanjing University -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In 1952, another famous Christian university, (additional info and facts about University of Nanking) University of Nanking (金陵大學), founded in 1888, was merged with Nanjing University (南京大學).
The university established the first faculty of art in China in 1906 and the first faculty of physical education in 1915.
The faculty of business was established in 1917 and was moved to (The largest city of China; located in the east on the Pacific; one of the largest ports in the world) Shanghai to establish as the first business school in China in 1921.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/N/Na/Nanjing_University.htm   (1898 words)

  
 Profile of NJU
Today's Nanjing University is formed mainly on the basis of the merging of the arts and sciences schools of National Nanjing University and the University of Nanking (a well-known university founded in 1888) during the nationwide institutional and departmental restructuring in 1952.
Of the University's 2,150 faculty members, more than 1,500 are professors and associate professors, among whom 21 are Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and 2 are Fellows of the Third World Academy of Sciences.
In implementing the "Project 211", Nanjing University is building itself by the early 21st century into an internationally influential, multi-disciplinary socialist university with characteristics of its own, one among the best in the world in teaching, research, management and resources.
www.nju.edu.cn /cps/site/NJU/njue/profile   (1106 words)

  
 Nanjing University
Nanjing University (南京大学, 南京大學, Pinyin: Nánjīng Dàxué; colloquially 南大, Pinyin Nándà) is one of the most prestigious universities in China, and is also one of the oldest higher education institutions.
Nanjing University, the cradle of modern science in China, located in Nanjing, is regarded as the first modern Chinese university.
In 1952, another famous Christian university, University of Nanking(金陵大学), founded in 1888, was merged with Nanjing University.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/nanjing_university_1   (992 words)

  
 Nanjing University - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
It is the cradle of modern science in China and is a prestigious university with strong traditions.
In 1952, another famous Christian university, University of Nanking (金陵大學), founded in 1888, was merged with Nanjing University (南京大學).
Nanjing University was originally founded as the Imperial Central College at Nanjing in 258 under the Kingdom of Wu by the emperor Sun Xiu.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Nanjing_Taixue   (1556 words)

  
 Nanking Atrocities - Regin of Terror   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Nanking Safety Zone was established in the western district of the city.
Rabe and American missionary Lewis S. Smythe, who was also a professor of Sociology at the University of Nanking and the secretary of the International Committee, recorded atrocities of the Japanese troops and reported to the Japanese embassy repeatedly.
As its after-effect, even the extensive study on the topic done by the researchers at the University of Nanking in 1962 argued that Westerners assisted the invaders in executing Chinese in Nanking.
www.geocities.com /nankingatrocities/Terror/terror_02.htm   (1724 words)

  
 Cornell University Presidents
Schurman's administration was characterized by the extensive growth of the university's facilities and its shift from a privately endowed institution to a combination of state and private funding.
He was appointed to the post of chancellor, giving his energies to the major overall aspects of university development, to the higher levels of fund raising, and to the cultivation of the university's relations with the state.
Born in Pittsburg, Kansas, in 1914, Corson received a B.A. degree from the College of Emporia in 1934, his M.A. from the University of Kansas in 1935, and his Ph.D. in physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1938.
www.news.cornell.edu /campus/PresBios2002.html   (3566 words)

  
 BBC News | ASIA-PACIFIC | Nanking massacre denied
The meeting, titled The Verification of the Rape of Nanking: The Biggest Lie of the 20th Century, was organised by a nationalist group and held in a public museum in Osaka.
It believes the events in Nanking were part of a war and that soldiers, not civilians, were killed.
Many people are ignorant of the facts of the Nanking massacre she says, as it has only recently been mentioned in school history text books.
news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_615000/615457.stm   (565 words)

  
 Nanjing University - University of Nanjing, Study at University of Nanjing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Nanjing University, one of the oldest institutions of higher learning in China, is located in Nanjing, a beautiful city known for being China's capital of six ancient dynasties and having a rich cultural heritage.
Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NUST), founded in 1953, is now one of the national key universities under the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense.
NUAA is one of the key universities in China that mainly offers courses in science and engineering and strives for the coordinated development in applied science, management, humanities and social sciences with the combined features of aeronautics, civil aviation and astronautics.
www.muztagh.com /nanjing/university.htm   (733 words)

  
 League of World Universities: University of Florence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
It was recognized by Papal Bull in 1349 and by Royal Decree of Charles IV in 1364.
In 1472, the university was transferred to Pisa, but the faculties of law and medicine remained in Florence.
The University was reorganized as the Istituto de Studi Superiori Pratici e di Perfezionamento in 1859.
www.nyu.edu /rectors/florence.html   (225 words)

  
 Nanking Atrocities - In the 1990s   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In China the figure of 300,000, the death toll reckoned at the Nanking War Crimes Tribunal, is the official estimate engraved on the stone wall at the entrance of the Qin-Hua Rijun Nanjing Datsusha Yunan Tongbao Jinianguan, or the Memorial Hall for Compatriot Victims of the Japanese Military's Nanjing Massacre.
Robert Wilson, a surgeon at the American-administered University Hospital in the Safety Zone, wrote in his letter to the family, "a conservative estimate of people slaughtered in cold blood is somewhere about 100,000, including of course thousands of soldiers that had thrown down their arms" on March 7, 1938.
In 1986, historian Lloyd Eastman at University of Illinois introduced a figure somewhat close to the early estimates reached by the Western missionaries in respected The Cambridge History of China.
www.geocities.com /nankingatrocities/1990s/nineties_01.htm   (1139 words)

  
 China's Christian Colleges
The University of Nanking was formed in 1910 through the union of three smaller mission colleges, the oldest being the Methodist Nanking University founded in 1888.
In 1914, the University owned seventy acres of land in the center of Nanking on which were three dormitories, three lecture halls or recitation buildings, one science hall, one YMCA building, one chapel, one Normal School building, one hospital and dispensary, and thirteen residences.
The University of Nanking was able to return to its Nanking campus in the spring of 1946 after restoration and rehabilitation of the campus had begun in the fall of 1945.
www.library.yale.edu /div/colleges/descriptions.htm   (11652 words)

  
 RISSHO UNIVERSITY
Nanjing University, a famous institution of higher learning, is located in Nanjing, capital of six ancient dynasties that boasts a picturesque scenery and rich cultural heritage.
During the nationwide readjustment of universities, colleges and departments in 1952, Nanjing University was formed, mainly on the basis of the colleges of arts and sciences of Nanjing University and the University of Nanking (a famous university founded in 1888).
Beijing Normal University was the earliest established teacher-training university in China, which grew out of the Faculty of Education of the Metropolitan University founded in 1902.
www.ris.ac.jp /en/agree/agr04.html   (238 words)

  
 University of Nanking - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
University of Nanking - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
It was originally named The Nanking University(汇文书院, Huiwen Shuyuan in Chinese).
In 1910, The Nanking University merged The Union Christian College(宏育书院, Hongyu Shuyuan in Chinese, formed by the merger of The Christian College(基督书院, Jidu Shuyuan in Chinese, founded in 1891) and The Presby Teaian(益智书院, Yizhi Shuyuan in Chinese, founded in 1894) in 1900) and changed the name to be Private University of Nanking(金陵大学).
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/University_of_Nanking   (184 words)

  
 Unasylva - Vol. 2, No. 6 - Forestry in China
At Nanking, the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Park Commission leased the Bureau 65 hectares of land on the Purple Mountain for its headquarters and nursery.
On the farmlands of the University of Nanking a soil erosion station was set up to study the correlation between rainfall and soil erosion under various cover crops.
The graduates of both the universities and the vocational schools are working with the various organizations concerned with forestry, with educational institutions, and with local governments.
www.fao.org /docrep/x5347e/x5347e04.htm   (3410 words)

  
 External Relations Office, The University of Hong Kong
Before becoming Vice-Chancellor at the University of Hong Kong, Professor Wang had already enjoyed a distinguished academic career not only in Malaya but also in Australia where he was Professor of Far Eastern History, and Director of the Research School of Pacific Studies at Australian National University during the years 1968 to 1986.
With his vision and support, this university established the Hong Kong University Foundation for Educational Development and Research, the first foundation of its kind at the local tertiary education level, to foster stronger links with the community and enhance this university's capacity for teaching and research.
On his retirement from Hong Kong University, he was appointed Chairman of the Institute of East Asian Political Economy in Singapore, and is currently Director, The East Asian Institute, and Distinguished Professorial Fellow, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore.
www.hku.hk /eroesite/html/pub/gazette/issues_2/main_gazette_03.htm   (950 words)

  
 Libraries & Culture, Bookplate Archive
This historical bookplate of Nanjing University Library in Nanjing, People’s Republic of China, was used from 1928 to 1949 as the collection symbol.
The pine tree that is the main focus of the picture still stands on the campus of Southeastern University, the former campus of Nanjing University.
In 1952, Nanjing University was merged with Jin Lin University (The University of Nanking); the campus moved inside Jin Lin University, the two libraries were combined as one, and the library building of the University of Nanjing was used.
www.gslis.utexas.edu /~landc/bookplates/30_1_Nanjing.htm   (704 words)

  
 Guide to the James Claude Thomson Papers (Record Group No. 24)
He was Professor of chemistry and later Dean at the University of Nanking from 1917 to 1949.
Additional correspondence of Thomson from the period when he was at the University of Nanking is available in the Archives of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia, YDL Record Group No. 11.
China Slides: slide carousel #5, slides of Nanking, Kuling, Canton, Hong Kong and Macao; slide carousel #6, slides of Yunnan and Sikang, incl.
www.library.yale.edu /div/fa/024.HTM   (1916 words)

  
 wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Nanjing University (南京大学, 南京大學, Pinyin: Nánjīng Dàxué; colloquially 南大, Pinyin Nándà) is one of the oldest higher education institutions in the world and became the first modern Chinese university in the early 1920s.
Nanjing University began its modern history in 1902 with the name Sanjiang Normal College, at the site of the former Nanjing Imperial Central College (南京太学; Nanjing Taixue) originated in 258 (under the Kingdom of Wu).
In the 15th century, the Imperial Central College at Nanjing was the world's largest higher institution of learning, with about 10 thousand students, many of whom came from many other countries.
pardus.info /index.php?title=Nanjing_Central_University   (1385 words)

  
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Founded circa 1890, the University of Nanking was an American missionary institution and, during the Nanjing massacre, was located within the Nanjing safety zone frequently referred to within the present document.
During the Japanese occupation of the city, 30,000 refugees were housed in the make-shift refugee hostile at the University of Nanking.
Furthermore, the Americans referred to were from the University of Nanking, an American-funded missionary institution.
www.cs.engr.uky.edu /~cheng/NJ-massacre2.html   (7318 words)

  
 Guide to the Harry H. Love Papers,1907-1964
Letter reporting on first bombing of Nanking by Japanese planes; bombing of Sept. 19; question of moving the University - morale.
Tsou, P. (CU grad, Dean of National SE University in Nanking; Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Labor, Shanghai, 1931; Cotton Industry Commission of National Economic Council, Shanghai, 1935; 1943+, Chungking and then rep. to UN Interim Commission on Food and Agriculture), 1925-1937.
Yu, Tang Siang, University of Hanking, Hanking, China 1934-1935.
rmc.library.cornell.edu /EAD/htmldocs/RMA00890.html   (1354 words)

  
 USF Center for the Pacific Rim :: Pacific Rim Report No.12
The Treaty of Nanking, which ended the so-called First Opium War in 1842, then permitted the missionaries to begin work in five of China’s major seaports and in the newly formed colony of Hong Kong.
The Boards of Trustees of the University of Nanking, Peking University and the Shantung Christian University felt it was essential to cooperate in their effort to provide counsel and financial support for their three young and struggling universities.
By 1954, Tunghai University in Taichung was established, with the United Board over the years providing more funding for this university than for any other Board related institution in Asia.
www.pacificrim.usfca.edu /research/pacrimreport/pacrimreport12.html   (4661 words)

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