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Peking University , colloquially known in Chinese as Beida (??, Beidā), is a major research university located in Beijing
Beijing

is a metropolis in northern China and the Capital of the People's Republic of China. It is one of the four municipality of China, which are equivalent to province in China's Political divisions of China....
, China. It is the first formally established modern research university, and the first national university of China. It was founded as Imperial Capital University in 1898 as a replacement of the ancient Guozijian
Guozijian

The Guozijian , the School of the Sons of State sometimes called the Imperial Central School, Imperial Academy or Imperial College was the national central institute of learning in Chinese dynasties after the Sui dynasty....
 (??? guózijiān). By 1920 it had become a center for progressive thought.






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Peking University , colloquially known in Chinese as Beida (??, Beidā), is a major research university located in Beijing
Beijing

is a metropolis in northern China and the Capital of the People's Republic of China. It is one of the four municipality of China, which are equivalent to province in China's Political divisions of China....
, China. It is the first formally established modern research university, and the first national university of China. It was founded as Imperial Capital University in 1898 as a replacement of the ancient Guozijian
Guozijian

The Guozijian , the School of the Sons of State sometimes called the Imperial Central School, Imperial Academy or Imperial College was the national central institute of learning in Chinese dynasties after the Sui dynasty....
 (??? guózijiān). By 1920 it had become a center for progressive thought. Today, most national and international rankings frequently place Peking University as one of the best universities in China. In addition to its academics, Peking University is especially renowned for the beauty of its traditional Chinese architecture at its campus grounds.

Throughout its history, the university has distinguished itself from its peers in terms of intellectual freedom and has produced and hosted many of modern China's top thinkers, including Lu Xun
Lu Xun

Lu Xun or Lu Hs?n , was the pen name of Zhou Shuren is one of the major Chinese writers of the 20th century. Considered by many to be the founder of modern Chinese literature, he wrote in baihua as well as classical Chinese....
, Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong was a China military and politics dictator. Mao led the Communist Party of China to victory against the Kuomintang in the Chinese Civil War, and was the leader of the People?s Republic of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976....
, Hu Shih
Hu Shih

Hu Shih , born Hu Hung-hsing , was a Chinese philosopher and essayist. His courtesy name was Shih-chih . Hu is widely recognized today as a key contributor to Chinese liberalism and language reform in his advocacy for the use of vernacular Chinese....
, Li Dazhao
Li Dazhao

Li Dazhao was a China intellectual who co-founded the Communist Party of China with Chen Duxiu in 1921....
, Gu Hongming
Gu Hongming

Gu Hongming was an Chinese Malaysian man of letters. In some articles, he also name himself Amoy Ku....
, and Chen Duxiu
Chen Duxiu

Chen Duxiu played many different roles in Chinese history. He was a leading figure in the anti-imperial Xinhai Revolution and the May Fourth Movement for Science and Democracy....
. The Peking University was among the birth places for China's New Culture Movement
New Culture Movement

The New Culture Movement of the mid 1910s and 1920s sprang from the disillusionment with traditional Chinese culture following the failure of the Chinese Republic founded in 1912 to address China?s problems....
, May Fourth Movement, the Tiananmen Square protest of 1989 and many other significant events.

History

Peking University was established in Beijing in December 1898 during the Hundred Days Reform and was originally known as the Imperial Capital University to replace the ancient Guozijian
Guozijian

The Guozijian , the School of the Sons of State sometimes called the Imperial Central School, Imperial Academy or Imperial College was the national central institute of learning in Chinese dynasties after the Sui dynasty....
 (??? guózijiān). In 1902, the Imperial Capital University's Faculty of Education was spun off to become today's Beijing Normal University
Beijing Normal University

Beijing Normal University , colloqiually known as ??? Beishid?), is a university located in Beijing, People's Republic of China....
, the best teacher's college in China. In 1912, following the Xinhai Revolution, the Imperial University was renamed the National Peking University . The famous scholar Cai Yuanpei
Cai Yuanpei

C?i Yu?np?i was a China educator and the chancellor of the Peking University, known for his critical evaluation of the Chinese culture that led to the influential May Fourth Movement....
 was appointed president on January 4, 1917, and helped transform the university into the country's largest institution of higher learning, with 14 departments and an enrollment of more than 2,000 students. Cai, inspired by the German model of academic freedom, recruited an intellectually diverse faculty that included Hu Shi, Chen Duxiu
Chen Duxiu

Chen Duxiu played many different roles in Chinese history. He was a leading figure in the anti-imperial Xinhai Revolution and the May Fourth Movement for Science and Democracy....
, and Lu Xun
Lu Xun

Lu Xun or Lu Hs?n , was the pen name of Zhou Shuren is one of the major Chinese writers of the 20th century. Considered by many to be the founder of modern Chinese literature, he wrote in baihua as well as classical Chinese....
. In 1919, students of Peking University formed the bulk of the protesters of the May Fourth Movement. Efforts by the Beiyang government to end to protests by sealing off the Peking University campus led to Cai's resignation. In 1920, Peking University became the second Chinese university to accept female students, after Nanjing University
Nanjing University

Nanjing University is a national comprehensive university located in Nanjing, an ancient capital of China. It is regarded as one of the best and most selective universities in China....
. After the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 (and the resulting expansion of Japanese territorial control in east China), Peking University moved to Changsha
Changsha

Changsha is the capital city of Hunan, a province of south-central China, located on the lower reaches of Xiang river, a branch of the Yangtze River....
 and formed the Changsha Temporary University along with Tsinghua University and Nankai University. In 1938, the three schools moved again, this time to Kunming
Kunming

Kunming is a prefecture-level city and capital of Yunnan province, in southwestern China. Because of its year-round temperate climate, Kunming is often called the "Spring City" or "City of Eternal Spring" ....
, and formed the National Southwestern United University. In 1946, after World War II, Peking University moved back to Beijing. At that time, the university comprised six schools (Arts, Science, Law, Medicine, Engineering, and Agriculture), and a research institute for humanities. The total student enrollment grew up to 3,000.

In 1952, three years after the People's Republic of China was established, the Yenching University
Yenching University

Yenching University was a notable university in Beijing, China. It integrated three Christian colleges in the city in 1919. Yenching is an alternative name of Beijing - derived from its status as capital of Yan , one of the seven Warring States from 5th century BC to 3rd century BC....
 was merged into Peking University and Peking University lost its "national" appellation to reflect the fact that all universities under the new socialist state would be public. In 1952 Peking University moved from downtown Beijing to the former Yenching campus. The first disturbances of the Cultural Revolution began at Peking University in 1966; education there ceased between 1966 and 1970. Since then, the university has reasserted its position as one of the leading universities of China.

In 2000, Beijing Medical University was merged into Peking University and became the Peking University Health Science Campus. Beida now has eight affiliated hospitals and 12 teaching hospitals.

In 2001, Peking University set up a satellite campus in Shenzhen. The university's second business school opened its door on this campus in 2004, and was renamed Beida HSBC School of Business in 2008.

Academic reputation

Most national and international rankings of Chinese universities place Peking University amongst top universities in China. The Times Higher Education Supplement
The Times Higher Education Supplement

The Times Higher Education , formerly The Times Higher Education Supplement , is a magazine based in London reporting specifically on news and other issues related to British higher education, largely the University, including former and current polytechnics....
 in 2006 ranked Peking University as the 14th best university in the world, taking the highest spot in Asia; the same ranking in 2007 placed the University at 36th, and in 2008, it was ranked at the 50th.

Peking University is a comprehensive and national key university . The University consists of 30 colleges and 12 departments, with 93 specialties for undergraduates, 2 specialties for the second Bachelor's degree
Bachelor's degree

A bachelor's degree is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts for three, four, or in some cases and countries, five or six years....
, 199 specialties for Master's degree
Master's degree

A master's degree provides a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of profession. Within the area studied, graduates possess advanced knowledge of a specialized body of theory and applied topics; high order skills in analysis, Critical thinking and/or professional application; and the ability to problem solving a...
 candidates and 173 specialties for Doctoral candidates
Doctorate

A doctorate is an academic degree that in most countries represents the highest level of formal study or research in a given field. In some countries it also refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder to practice in a specific profession ....
. While in a leading position of basic sciences research and teaching, the university has gained itself very successful development of applied sciences.

At present, Peking university has 216 research institutions and research centres, including 2 national engineering research centres, 81 key national disciplines, 12 national key laboratories. With 4.5 million holdings, the university library
Library

A library is a collection of information, sources, resources, books, and services, and the structure in which it is housed: it is organized for use and maintained by a public body, an institution, or a private individual....
 is the largest of its kind in Asia.

The university has made an effort to combine the research on fundamental scientific issues with the training of personnel with high level specialized knowledge and professional skill as demanded by the country's modernization. It strives not only for the simultaneous improvements in teaching and research work, but also for the promotion of interaction and mutual promotion among various subjects.

Teaching also has been emphasized. It aims to cultivate the students' practical ability and creative power. As a result, the teaching of core courses is strengthened, the content of courses is enriched and renewed and favourable conditions have been created, for the students to develop themselves in extracurricular activities.

Peking University has been becoming a center for teaching and research, consisting of diverse branches of learning such as pure and applied sciences, social sciences
Social sciences

The social sciences comprise academic disciplines concerned with the study of the social life of human groups and individuals including anthropology, communication studies, economics, human geography, history, political science, psychology and sociology....
 and the humanities
Humanities

The humanities are academic disciplines which study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytic, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural science and social sciences....
, and sciences of management
Management

Management in business and human organization activity is simply the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals. Management comprises planning, organizing, staffing, leadership or directing, and Control an organization or effort for the purpose of accomplishing a goal....
 and education
Education

File:Inukshuk Monterrey 1.jpgEducation can be seen as a product or a process and considered in a broad sense or a technical sense. According to philosophy of education George F....
. Its aim is to rank among the world's best universities in the next couple of decades, with the school's leadership placing great emphasis on developing bilateral relationships with prominent American universities for student and faculty exchanges.

Over the past century, more than 400 Peking University alumni had become presidents of other major Chinese universities, including former Tsinghua
Tsinghua University

Tsinghua University , is a university in Beijing, People's Republic of China. Tsinghua University was established in 1911, originally under the name ?Tsinghua Xuetang?....
 President Luo Jialun, Renmin University President Yuan Baohua, Zhejiang University
Zhejiang University

Zhejiang University , sometimes referred to as Zheda, is a national university in China. Founded in 1897, Zhejiang University is one of China's oldest and most prestigious institutions of higher education....
 President Qian Sanqiang, Fudan University
Fudan University

Fudan University , located in Shanghai, China, is one of the oldest, most prestigious and most selectiveuniversity in the People's Republic of China....
 President Zhang Zhirang, Nankai University
Nankai University

Nankai University is a public university in Tianjin, P.R. China. It is among the most famous universities in China and has a great reputation....
 President Teng Weizao, Chinese University of Science and Technology President Guan Weiyan and many others.

Campus, art and culture

The campus of Peking University was originally located north of Forbidden City
Forbidden City

The Forbidden City was the China imperial palace from the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty. It is located in the middle of Beijing, People's Republic of China, and now houses the Palace Museum....
 in the center of Beijing, and was later moved to the former campus of Yenching University
Yenching University

Yenching University was a notable university in Beijing, China. It integrated three Christian colleges in the city in 1919. Yenching is an alternative name of Beijing - derived from its status as capital of Yan , one of the seven Warring States from 5th century BC to 3rd century BC....
 in 1952. The current campus is located in northwest Beijing, in the Haidian district, which was concentrated with many well known colleges and universities.

The Peking University's campus site is also situated near the Summer Palace
Summer Palace

The Summer Palace or Yihe yuan is a palace in Beijing, China.The Summer Palace is mainly dominated by Summer Palace#Longevity Hill and the Kunming Lake....
 and the Old Summer Palace
Old Summer Palace

The Old Summer Palace, known in China as the Gardens of Perfect Brightness , and originally called the Imperial Gardens , was a complex of palaces and gardens 8 km northwest of the walls of the Imperial City, Beijing in Beijing, built in the 18th and early 19th century, where the emperors of the Qing Dynasty resided and handled...
; the area is traditionally where many of Beijing's most renowned gardens and palaces were built.

The university campus is located in the former site of Qing Dynasty
Qing Dynasty

The Qing Dynasty , also known as the Manchu Dynasty, followed the Ming Dynasty in History of China, and was the last ruling Chinese Dynasties of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912 ....
 royal gardens and it retains traditional Chinese-style landscaping including traditional houses, gardens, pagodas as well as many notable historical buildings and structures. There are several gates that lead into campus - East, West and South gates, with the West Gate being the most well known for the painted murals on its ceiling. The Peking University is known throughout China, along with its neighbour, Tsinghua University
Tsinghua University

Tsinghua University , is a university in Beijing, People's Republic of China. Tsinghua University was established in 1911, originally under the name ?Tsinghua Xuetang?....
, for their beautiful campuses. The university campus is surrounded by the weiming lake.

The university also contains many museums, such as the "Museum of University History" and the "Arthur M. Sackler
Arthur M. Sackler

Arthur M. Sackler was an American psychiatrist, entrepreneur and philanthropist.He attended New York University School of Medicine and graduated with an M.D....
 Museum of Art and Archaeology". Notable items in these museums includes funerary objects that were excavated in Beijing and dates back thousands of years ago from the graves of royalties of the Warring States period
Warring States Period

The Warring States Period , also known as the Era of Warring States, covers the period from 476 BCE to the unification of China by the Qin Dynasty in 221 BCE....
. There were ritual pottery vessels as well as elaborate pieces of jewelry on display. There were also bones of human remains set up in a traditional burial style of that period.

Beyond its main campus, Peking University Health Science Center
Peking University Health Science Center

Peking University Health Science Campus is a top medical school in China attached to Peking University....
 (PKUHSC) is located in Xue Yuan Rd. where the country's most distinguished colleges are located. The PKUHSC's campus is less aesthetically appealing than the main Peking University campus, but is nonetheless a fitting site for academics and research.

In 2001, Peking University's Shenzhen
Shenzhen

Shenzhen is a city of sub-provincial city administrative status in southern China's Guangdong province, situated immediately north of Hong Kong....
 campus, Shenzhen Graduate School, opened its doors. The campus is located in the northwest part of Shenzhen City. In 2008, the Times Higher Education (THE) ranked the Peking University as the 23rd best universities in the world in art
Art

Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music and literature....
s and humanities
Humanities

The humanities are academic disciplines which study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytic, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural science and social sciences....
; it is also the highest ranked university from Asia in this field. The Peking University was previously ranked as the 18th (2007 rankings), 10th (2006 rankings), 6th (2005 rankings), and 7th (2004 rankings) best arts and humanities universities in the world.

The Peking University is well-known for its contribution to modern Chinese literature, poetry and art, and for the publications of groundbreaking modern Chinese books such as Hong Zicheng
Hong Zicheng

Hong Zicheng was a Chinese philosopher who lived during the end of Ming Dynasty. He is often quoted in the contexts of chess and vegetarianism....
's A History of Contemporary Chinese Literature. The Peking University has been participating in many art-research projects, such as the Center for the Art of East Asia (CAEA) with the University of Chicago
University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park, Chicago neighborhood of Chicago. Although an older university by the same name existed prior to its founding, the modern University of Chicago credits its founding to the oil magnate John D....
, and developing the "Peking University, Deptartment of Digital Art and Design" with UNESCO
UNESCO

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations established on 16 November 1945....
. The Peking University also partners with the Stanford University
Stanford University

Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private university research university located in Stanford, California, California, United States....
 for its Asian cultural studies programs such as "The Stanford Program in Beijing" and "The Stanford-Peking University Summer Program", which encourages Stanford students interested in exploring Chinese language, history, culture, and society to study on campus at Peking University.

National Economic Research Institute

The Director of the National Institute of Economic Research, Professor of Economics of the Peking University and Professor of the graduate school of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences is Prof. Fan Gang. Dr. Fan had more than 100 academic papers published in both Chinese and English academic journals, more than 200 articles in newspapers and magazines and had also published several books. Justin Lin, the founding director of the institute, is the World Bank
World Bank

The World Bank is a bank that provides financial and technical assistance to developing countries for development programs with the stated goal of reducing poverty....
's chief economist, the first time the post has gone to a candidate outside Europe and the United States.

International students

Peking University has one of the largest pools of international students in China. The dormitories for international students are located at "Shao Yuan" (Shao Garden). Every year, Peking University has approximately 2,000 international students studying on campus. Its international students are made up of students from most countries in the world including most of Western Europe, North America, South America, all parts of Asia, Australia as well as many countries in Africa.

Since 2006, Peking University has launched a joint undergraduate program with the Yale University
Yale University

Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School, Yale is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher education in the United States and is a member of the Ivy League....
; students will spend a semester overseas, living and studying together with the host institute's students. Peking University's School of International Studies also launched joint degree programs with London School of Economics
London School of Economics

The London School of Economics and Political Science, more commonly referred to as The London School of Economics or LSE, is a specialist college of the University of London in London, England....
 and Waseda University
Waseda University

, often abbreviated to , is one of the top universities in Japan. Founded in 1882 as Tokyo Senmon Gakko , the institution was renamed "Waseda University" in 1902....
.

Notable alumni, administrators, and faculty


May Fourth
Peking University has produced many notable people, especially lead thinkers in modern China. These include Hu Shi, Li Dazhao and Lu Xun. Beida also has two Nobel Prize winners, Tsung-Dao Lee and Yang Chen Ning. Since the year 1948, 586 Peking University alumni have been selected into the renowned Academic Division of the Chinese Academy of Science, overshadowing any other universities in China.

Peking University is the home both to communist, nationalist and liberal thoughts in modern China. Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong was a China military and politics dictator. Mao led the Communist Party of China to victory against the Kuomintang in the Chinese Civil War, and was the leader of the People?s Republic of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976....
, Chen Duxiu
Chen Duxiu

Chen Duxiu played many different roles in Chinese history. He was a leading figure in the anti-imperial Xinhai Revolution and the May Fourth Movement for Science and Democracy....
 and Li Dazhao
Li Dazhao

Li Dazhao was a China intellectual who co-founded the Communist Party of China with Chen Duxiu in 1921....
, all founders of the Communist Party of China, either taught or held offices in the university. Lu Xun
Lu Xun

Lu Xun or Lu Hs?n , was the pen name of Zhou Shuren is one of the major Chinese writers of the 20th century. Considered by many to be the founder of modern Chinese literature, he wrote in baihua as well as classical Chinese....
, a great contemporary writer, thinker and influential figure of the Chinese New-Culture Movement, which took place in 1919 and sparked China’s anti-imperialism and anti-feudalism march, was also attached to the university. During the Cultural Revolution
Cultural Revolution

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in the People?s Republic of China was a period of widespread social and political upheaval that led to nation-wide chaos and economic disarray, which would engulf much of Chinese society between 1966 and 1976....
, Peking University philosophy faculty Nie Yuanzi
Nie Yuanzi

Nie Yuanzi is a Chinese academic who taught philosophy at Peking University. She is primarily known for her May 25, 1966 "Big-character poster" criticizing Peking University for being controlled by the "bourgeoise." This was a factor in the Cultural Revolution....
 notoriously published the first Big-character poster
Big-character poster

Big-character posters are handwritten, wall-mounted posters using large-sized Chinese characters, used as a means of protest, propaganda, and popular communication....
. Peking University students also led at the Tiananmen Square Protest
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989

The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 culminating in the Tiananmen Square Massacre were a series of demonstrations in and near Tiananmen Square in Beijing in the People's Republic of China beginning on April 14....
 of 1989 for democracy.

Faculty

  • Hu Shih
    Hu Shih

    Hu Shih , born Hu Hung-hsing , was a Chinese philosopher and essayist. His courtesy name was Shih-chih . Hu is widely recognized today as a key contributor to Chinese liberalism and language reform in his advocacy for the use of vernacular Chinese....
     ??- philosopher, writer and the leader of China's New Culture Movement
    New Culture Movement

    The New Culture Movement of the mid 1910s and 1920s sprang from the disillusionment with traditional Chinese culture following the failure of the Chinese Republic founded in 1912 to address China?s problems....
  • Lu Xun
    Lu Xun

    Lu Xun or Lu Hs?n , was the pen name of Zhou Shuren is one of the major Chinese writers of the 20th century. Considered by many to be the founder of modern Chinese literature, he wrote in baihua as well as classical Chinese....
     ??- writer, a spiritual leader of modern Chinese nationalism
  • Chen Duxiu
    Chen Duxiu

    Chen Duxiu played many different roles in Chinese history. He was a leading figure in the anti-imperial Xinhai Revolution and the May Fourth Movement for Science and Democracy....
     ???- dean of letters, later co-founder of Communist Party of China


  • Gu Hongming
    Gu Hongming

    Gu Hongming was an Chinese Malaysian man of letters. In some articles, he also name himself Amoy Ku....
     ???- writer, advocate of monarchy and Confucian values. Gu preserved his plait even after the overthrow of Qing Dynasty


  • Liu Shipei ??? - historian and philosopher, advocate of monarchy and traditional Chinese value


  • Shen Congwen
    Shen Congwen

    Shen Congwen was the pen name of a China writer from the May Fourth Movement. He was known for combining the vernacular style of writing with classical Chinese writing techniques, and his writing also reflects a strong influence from western literature....
     ???- writer
  • Qian Xuantong
    Qian Xuantong

    Qian Xuantong Born in Huzhou, Zhejiang, Qian was trained in traditional Chinese philology. After receiving his university education in Japan, Qian held a number of teaching positions in mainland China....
     ??? - linguist
  • Lin Yutang
    Lin Yutang

    Lin Yutang was a List of Chinese authors and inventor. His informal but polished style in both Chinese and English made him one of the most influential writers of his generation, and his compilations and translations of Chinese classic texts into English were bestsellers in the West....
     ??? - writer, inventor of the first Chinese typewriter and a new method of romanizing the Chinese language


  • Qian Mu ??- historian, philosopher and confucian. One of the founders of New Asia College
    New Asia College

    New Asia College is one of the four constituent colleges of the Chinese University of Hong Kong ....
     and Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Chinese University of Hong Kong

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, commonly referred to as CUHK, is the second oldest university in Hong Kong; it is campus-based and also the only collegiate university in the territory....
    .


  • Liang Shuming
    Liang Shuming

    Liang Shuming , born Liang Huanding , courtesy name Shouming , was a China reformer in the late Qing Dynasty and early History of the Republic of China eras of Chinese history....
      ??? - modern neo-Confucianist. Liang was most famous for his critique of Marxist class theory, stating that, despite obvious disparities of wealth, Chinese rural society could not be unambiguously classified along class lines. One and the same family (particularly the large patriarchal lineages found in many regions) would commonly have some members among the "haves" and others among the "have-nots". The class struggle advocated by the Maoists would necessitate kinsmen attacking each other.


  • Ma Yinchu
    Ma Yinchu

    Ma Yinchu was a prominent China economist....
     ??? - a prominent population economist,whose New Population Theory was criticized by Mao since 1957 for two decades. Having examined trends of the early 1950s, Ma argued that further population growth at such high rates would be detrimental to China's development. Therefore, he advocated government control of fertility. In 1979, the Communist Party formally apologies to Ma, stating that "erroneously criticized one person, population mistakenly increased 300,000,000".


  • Jiang Menglin
    Jiang Menglin

    Jiang Menglin , was a notable Chinese educator, writer, and paramount politician. Jiang also was the President of Peking University, served in 1919-1927....
     ??? - a prominent education reformer in China and former President of Peking University and Zhejiang University


  • Xu Beihong
    Xu Beihong

    Xu Beihong was primarily known for his shuimohua of horses and birds and one of the first Chinese artists to articulate the need for artistic expressions that reflected a new modern China at the beginning of the 20th century....
     ??? - the most famous Chinese artist, dean of Beida School of Arts, President of the Central Academy of Fine Arts and chairman of the Chinese Artists' Association.


  • Ta-You Wu
    Ta-You Wu

    Ta-You Wu was a Chinese-born atomic and nuclear theoretical physicist who worked in the United States, Canada, mainland China, and Taiwan. He has been called the "Father of Chinese Physics."...
     ???: the "Father of Chinese Physics". His many illustrious students include Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee, co-winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957, Yuan Tseh Lee, the co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986.


  • Yu Dafu
    Yu Dafu

    Yu Dafu . Born in Fuyang, Zhejiang, was a modern China short story writer and poet....
     ??? - modern Chinese short story writer and poet, author of Ch'en-lun "Sinking" (1921)
  • Wang Xiaobo
    Wang Xiaobo

    Wang Xiaobo was a Chinese writer who became famous after his death.Wang was born in an intellectual family in Beijing in 1952. He was sent to a farm in Yunnan province as an "intellectual youth" at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution in 1968....
     ??? - writer
  • He Weifang
    He Weifang

    He Weifang is a professor at Zhejiang University of China and an activist striving to reform the Chinese judicial system.He earned a Bachelor of Arts at Southwest University of Political Science & Law, and an Master of Laws at Peking College of Political Science and Law ....
     ??? - judicial reformist
  • Wang Tieya
    Wang Tieya

    Wang Tieya was an eminent Chinese jurist and former Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.Wang Tieya was educated at Tsinghua University and the London School of Economics....
     ??? - jurist, Judge of International Criminal Court
  • Li Haopei
    Li Haopei

    Li Haopei was a China jurist, diplomat and academic. He was a leading authority on international law.Li attended Soochow University and received his Bachelor's degree and Master's degree of laws in 1928 and 1930 respectively....
     ??? - jurist, Judge of International Criminal Court
  • Fei Xiaotong
    Fei Xiaotong

    Fei Xiaotong, or Fei Hsiao-Tung was a pioneering Han Chinese researcher and professor of sociology and anthropology; he was also noted for his studies in the study of China's ethnic groups as well as a social activist....
     ??? - researcher of sociology and anthropology; chairman of China Democratic Alliance.
  • Jian Bozan
    Jian Bozan

    Jian Bozan was a prominent Chinese people Marxist historian....
     ??? - historian


Administrators


  • Cai Yuanpei
    Cai Yuanpei

    C?i Yu?np?i was a China educator and the chancellor of the Peking University, known for his critical evaluation of the Chinese culture that led to the influential May Fourth Movement....
      ??? - early University Chancellor
  • Yan Fu
    Yan Fu

    Yan Fu , courtesy name Ji Dao , was a China scholar and translator, most famous for introducing Western thoughts, including Charles Darwin's idea of "natural selection," into China during the late 19th century....
     ?? - early University Chancellor
  • Li Dazhao
    Li Dazhao

    Li Dazhao was a China intellectual who co-founded the Communist Party of China with Chen Duxiu in 1921....
     ??? - head librarian, later co-founder of Communist Party of China


Alumni


Writers

  • Fan Changjiang - journalist and writer
  • Feng Youlan
    Feng Youlan

    Feng Youlan or Fung Yu-Lan was a Chinese philosopher who was important for reintroducing the study of Chinese philosophy....
     ??? - philosopher
  • Han Suyin - writer
  • Mao Dun
    Mao Dun

    Mao Dun was the pen name of Shen Dehong , a 20th century China novelist, cultural critic, and journalism. He was also the Minister of Culture of China from 1949 to 1965....
     ??- writer and journalist
  • Xu Zhimo
    Xu Zhimo

    Xu Zhimo was an early 20th century China poet. He was given the name of Zhangxu and the courtesy name of Yousen . He later changed his courtesy name to Zhimo ....
     ??? - poet
  • Zhang Chengzhi - writer
  • Zhu Ziqing
    Zhu Ziqing

    Zhu Ziqing was a renowned China poet and essayist. Zhu studied at Peking University, and during the May Fourth Movement became one of several pioneers of modernism in China during the 1920s....
     ???- poet
  • Dolma Kyab - writer (currently political prisoner)
  • Jan Wong - writer (one of the first western students permitted to study aboard.)
  • Qian Xuantong
    Qian Xuantong

    Qian Xuantong Born in Huzhou, Zhejiang, Qian was trained in traditional Chinese philology. After receiving his university education in Japan, Qian held a number of teaching positions in mainland China....
     ??? and Liu Bannong
    Liu Bannong

    Liu Bannong or Liu Fu was a China linguist and poet.A native of Jiangsu, he was an important contributor to the influential magazine La Jeunesse during the May Fourth Movement....
     ??? - writers and promotioners of the New Culture Movement


Academics

  • Michael Halliday - developed systemic functional grammar
  • Gang Tian
    Gang Tian

    File:Gang Tian.jpegTian Gang is a China mathematician and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is known for his contributions to geometric analysis and quantum cohomology, among other fields....
     - mathematician
  • Li Yining - economist
  • Tsung-Dao Lee
    Tsung-Dao Lee

    Tsung-Dao Lee is a China-born United States physicist, well known for his work on Parity #Parity violation, Lee Model, particle physics, relativistic heavy ion physics, nontopological solitons and soliton stars....
     (Li Zhengdao) ??? - physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (physics, 1957)
  • Yang Zhenning ??? - physicist, Nobel Prize laureate, 1957
  • Justin Yifu Lin
    Justin Yifu Lin

    Justin Yifu Lin is a Chinese people economist and Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank.He is the founder and director of the China Center for Economic Research, former professor of economics at Peking University, and at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology....
     ??? - economist (now the chief economist of World Bank)
  • Yu Jie - First house church leader to meet an American president (May 2006, meeting George W Bush in the White House)
  • Yu Min - physicist, Father of Chinese H-bombs
  • Luo Jialun
    Luo Jialun

    Luo Jialun was a Chinese educator, historian and political activist. He was one of the leaders of the May Fourth Movement in 1919.Luo got his bachelor degree from Peking University.In September, 1928, Luo was appointed the president of Tsinghua University and resigned in May, 1930....
     ??? - leader of the May Fourth Movement, president of Tsinghua University
    Tsinghua University

    Tsinghua University , is a university in Beijing, People's Republic of China. Tsinghua University was established in 1911, originally under the name ?Tsinghua Xuetang?....
  • Fu Sinian
    Fu Sinian

    file:DrFu.JPGF? Sini?n , was a famous China educator and linguistics, and one of the leaders of the May Fourth Movement in 1919. He was also one of the creators of the Academia Sinica, and was named director of the Institute of History and Philology upon its founding in 1928....
     ??? - educator and linguist; leader of the May Fourth Movement, creators of the Academia Sinica
    Academia Sinica

    The Academia Sinica , headquartered in the Nangang District of Taipei, is the national academy of the Republic of China . It supports research activities in a wide variety of disciplines, ranging from mathematical and physical sciences, to life sciences, and to humanities and social sciences....
    , former president of National Taiwan University
    National Taiwan University

    National Taiwan University is a national university co-educational university located in Taipei City, Taiwan. In Chinese language, it is colloquially known as "Taida" ....
  • Gu Jiegang
    Gu Jiegang

    Gu Jiegang was a China historian who is known best for his seven volume work Gushi Bian . He was a leading force in the yigupai....
     ??? - a Chinese historian; the founder of the Skeptical school of early Chinese history, known as yigupai
    Yigupai

    The Yigupai refers to a group of scholars and writers who show doubts and uncertainty of antiquity in the Chinese languages academia starting during the New Culture Movement....
    ; best known for the seven volume work Gushi Bian (??? "Debates on Ancient History").
  • Ren Jiyu ??? - Chinese historian and philosopher, former director of the National Library.
  • Deng Jiaxian
    Deng Jiaxian

    Deng Jiaxian was born on June 25, 1924, in Huaining, Anhui province, and died on July 29th, 1986 in Beijing. He was a nuclear physics expert and academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences ....
     ??? - a nuclear physics expert; a leading organizer and key contributor to the Chinese nuclear weapon programs.
  • Qian Sanqiang
    Qian Sanqiang

    Qian Sanqiang was a Chinese nuclear physics....
     ??? - a nuclear physicist and education administrator; a leading organizer and key contributor to the Chinese nuclear weapon programs; former president of Zhejiang University
    Zhejiang University

    Zhejiang University , sometimes referred to as Zheda, is a national university in China. Founded in 1897, Zhejiang University is one of China's oldest and most prestigious institutions of higher education....
  • Zhu Guangya
    Zhu Guangya

    Zhu Guangya is a renowned nuclear physicist of China, and an academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He served as the vice chairman of 8th and 9th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference ....
     ??? - a renowned nuclear physicist of China, key contributor to China's "Two Bombs, One Satellite" projects.
  • Zhou Guangzhao
    Zhou Guangzhao

    Zhou Guangzhao is a Chinese physicist....
     ??? - expert on particle physics, discoverer of PCAC (partial conservation of axial current), an important step toward the understanding of symmetry breaking; former director of the Chinese Nuclear Weapons Research Institute and president of the Academica Sinica.


In politics

  • Bo Xilai
    Bo Xilai

    Bo Xilai , is the current Communist Party of China Chongqing Committee Secretary, Politics of Chongqing of the Western interior municipality. Between 2004 and November 2007 he was Minister of Commerce of the People's Republic of China....
     ??? - Mayor of Chongqing, Former Minister of Commerce
  • Cai Wu
    Cai Wu

    Cai Wu is the current head of the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China....
     - Minister of Culture
  • Deng Nan
    Deng Nan

    Deng Nan is the second daughter of Deng Xiaoping and his third wife Zhuo Lin.She was vice minister of the State Science and Technology Commission of the People's Republic of China ....
     - Former Vice minister of the State Science and Technology Commission
  • Deng Pufang
    Deng Pufang

    Deng Pufang is the first son of former People's Republic of China's Paramount leader Deng Xiaoping. He is mostly known for being crippled by the Red Guards , and becoming a paraplegic....
     ??? - founder and Chairman of China Disabled Persons' Federation
  • Guo Gengmao
    Guo Gengmao

    Guo Gengmao is a politician of the People's Republic of China. He is currently the governor of Henan Province....
     ??? - Governor of Henan Province
  • Hu Chunhua
    Hu Chunhua

    Hu Chunhua is a politician of the People's Republic of China. He currently serves as governor of Hebei Province and deputy secretary of the Communist Party of China Hunan Provincial Committee....
     ??? - Youngerst governor in China, former First Secretary of the Communist Youth League
  • Hu Deping - vice chairman of All-China General Chamber of Industry & Commerce Party, Secretary of National Association of Industry and Commerce, and vice minister of the Propaganda Department
  • Li Keqiang
    Li Keqiang

    Li Keqiang is currently the Executive Vice-Premier of China and the 7th ranked member of the powerful Politburo Standing Committee, the People's Republic of China's de facto top power organ....
     ??? - Politburo Standing Committee member, First Deputy Prime Minister
  • Li Yuanchao
    Li Yuanchao

    Li Yuanchao is a prominent politician in the People's Republic of China, serving on the Politburo of the Communist Party of China and as the head of its Organization Department of the Communist Party of China....
     ??? - Politburo member and Minister for the Organization Department of the Chinese Communist Party
  • Li Zhaoxing ??? - minister of foreign affairs
  • Lu Hao
    Lu Hao

    Lu Hao may refer to:*Lu Hao , official of the People's Republic of China*Lu Hao , official of the People's Republic of China, First Secretary of Communist Youth League of China...
     - First Secretary of Communist Youth League of China
  • Yuan Chunqing
    Yuan Chunqing

    Yuan Chunqing is the current governor of Shaanxi Province in the People's Republic of China, and the vice secretary of the Communist Party of China Shaanxi committee....
     - Governor of Shaanxi Province, Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
  • K. Natwar Singh - India politician


  • Chen Duxiu
    Chen Duxiu

    Chen Duxiu played many different roles in Chinese history. He was a leading figure in the anti-imperial Xinhai Revolution and the May Fourth Movement for Science and Democracy....
     ??? - founding member and leader in the Communist Party of China
  • Zhang Guotao
    Zhang Guotao

    Zhang Guotao was a founding member and leader of the Chinese Communist Party during the late 1920s and 1930s. He wrote several memoirs on the CCP that provide valuable information on its early history....
     ??? - founding member and leader in the Communist Party of China
  • Li Dazhao
    Li Dazhao

    Li Dazhao was a China intellectual who co-founded the Communist Party of China with Chen Duxiu in 1921....
     ??? - founding member and leader in the Communist Party of China
  • Mao Zedong
    Mao Zedong

    Mao Zedong was a China military and politics dictator. Mao led the Communist Party of China to victory against the Kuomintang in the Chinese Civil War, and was the leader of the People?s Republic of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976....
     ??? - founding member and leader in the Communist Party of China
  • Deng Zhongxia ??? - founding member and leader in the Communist Party of China


  • Wang Dan ?? - Leader of the Tiananmen protests in 1989
  • Fang Lizhi
    Fang Lizhi

    Fang Lizhi was a professor of astrophysics and vice president of the University of Science and Technology of China whose liberal ideas inspired the pro-democracy student movement of 1986-87 and, finally, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989....
     - Spiritual leader of the Tiananmen Protests in 1989
  • Shen Tong
    Shen Tong

    Shen Tong is a Chinese people dissident who was one of the student leaders in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. One of the People of the Year by Newsweek 1989, Shen Tong became a media and software entrepreneur in late 1990s....
     - Author, Pro-democracy activist


In commerce and media

Among the "top 300 richest in China" 27 graduated from Beida, much higher than any other Chinese university. The second ranking school is Zhejiang University, with 17 alumni on the list .

  • Li Yanhong ??? - founder of Baidu
    Baidu

    Baidu is the leading Chinese language search engine for websites, audio files, and images. Baidu offers 57 search and community services including an online collaboratively-built encyclopedia , and a searchable keyword-based discussion forum....
    .com


  • Wang Xuan ?? - founder of Founder Co.


  • Wang Zhidong ??? - founder of Sina.com
    SINA.com

    Sina.com is the largest Chinese-language infotainment web portal. It is run by SINA Corporation which was founded in 1999. The company was founded in Mainland China, and its global financial headquarters have been based in Shanghai since October 1, 2001....


  • Yu Minhong ??? - founder of New Oriental
    New Oriental

    New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. , more commonly New Oriental is a provider of private educational services in China....
     Education Group


  • Peggy Yu
    Peggy Yu

    Peggy Yu is the founder of dangdang.com, the largest online Chinese language retailer.External links...
     ?? - founder of dangdang.com, the largest online retailor in Chinese language.


  • Yan Yan -- Founding Partner of SoftBank China


  • Li Ning
    Li Ning

    Li Ning is a well-known and well-respected Chinese gymnast and entrepreneur. He was born in a Zhuang_people family on September 8, 1963 in Liuzhou, Guangxi, China....
     ?? - founder of Li Ning Group


  • Huang Nubo ??? - founder of Zhongkun Real Estate Group


  • James Jian Ding - founder of Asiainfo, founding partner of Golden Sand River Venture Capital


  • Yu Liang - CEO of China Vanke
    China Vanke

    China Vanke Company Limited is the largest residential real estate developer in the People?s Republic of China. It is engaged in developing, managing and selling of the properties across 20 cities in Pearl River Delta, Yangtze River Delta and Bohai Bay-Rim Region, with the provision of investment trading, consultancy services and e-business....
     Group


Former employees

  • Mao Zedong
    Mao Zedong

    Mao Zedong was a China military and politics dictator. Mao led the Communist Party of China to victory against the Kuomintang in the Chinese Civil War, and was the leader of the People?s Republic of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976....
     - staff librarian, leader of Communist Party of China
  • Bertrand Russell
    Bertrand Russell

    Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, Order of Merit , Fellow of the Royal Society , was a British people philosopher, mathematical logic, mathematician, historian, advocate for social reform, and pacifism....
     - Lecturer in Philosophy (1920-21)
  • Alexander von Staël-Holstein
    Alexander von Staël-Holstein

    Baron Alexander von Sta?l-Holstein ; was a Russian and Estonian orientalist, sinologist, sanskritologist, specializing in Buddhist texts.Related to Madame de Sta?l's husband, the future baron was born in the province of Estland , then belonging to the Russian Empire,in an aristocratic family on the New Year's Day....
     - (1918-1937 in Beijing), - Lecturer and Professor in Indology, Tibetology, Sinology and Phonetics


See also

  • 7072 Beijingdaxue
    7072 Beijingdaxue

    7072 Beijingdaxue is an asteroid named after Peking University.The asteroid was discovered on February 3, 1996 by the Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program at Xinglong, China....
     - asteroid named after Peking University
  • List of universities in Mainland China
  • Beijing Medical University
  • High School of Peking University
    High School of Peking University

    High School of Peking University , or PKU High School, founded in 1960, is the high school affiliated to Peking University. It is located in the center of Zhongguancun, Haidian District, Beijing, China....
  • Chinese Family Panel Studies
    Chinese Family Panel Studies

    Chinese Family Panel Studies is designed by representative experts from all social sciences departments, schools, and institutes in Peking University, PKU....
     Program


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