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Tsinghua University (Part 3) FEATURE Tsinghua University (Part 3) By J. F. Lo Outbreak of War and Relocation - 1937-1938 Humanities, Science, Engineering, and Law and The hostilities that began after the Business) and seventeen departments, staffed by "Marco Polo Bridge Incident" on July 7, 1937 did 148 faculty members, 73 of whom were from not catch Tsinghua University's authorities Tsinghua. A total of 1,120 returning students entirely by surprise. Two years earlier, plans had from the three universities registered for the new already been made to construct a new campus on school year. Together with newly matriculated the outskirts of Changsha in Hunan Province, and freshmen and transfer students from other several boxcar-loads of books and laboratory universities, the initial enrollment was around equipment were secretly sent there in case the 1,500. Among this total, the Tsinghua contingent need for relocation arose. However, the project was the largest, numbering 631. However, this had not yet been completed when Beiping (the was only half the size of the 1936 enrollment of name for Beijing during 1928-1950) and Tianjin 1,308. fell to the Japanese at the end of July. Meanwhile, The Changsha Temporary University the presidents of Tsinghua, Beijing and Nankai (a was indeed temporary. After a shortened private institution in Tianjin) Universities were semester, constant air raids and the deteriorating attending an emergency meeting in the south, and military situation forced the university to embark therefore unable to return to their posts. on another move, this time to the distant On September 10,1937, the Ministry of southwestern city of Kunming in Yunnan Education ordered the three schools to evacuate Province. Planning began in earnest in January, southward and merge to form Changsha 1938, with classes scheduled to resume there in Temporary University. The circumstances under mid-March. A forward group of administrators which the move took place were extraordinarily first set out by truck, while those faculty, staff and difficult indeed. Nankai University had been students who wished to travel together were destroyed by Japanese bombing, and the organized into two separate groups. One group, campuses of Beijing University (Beida) and which included all the female students, traveled Tsinghua were under occupation, so only a by rail to Guangzhou and Hong Kong, then by sea limited amount of books and equipment were to Vietnam, and finally by rail to Kunming. The available at the new site. Facilities to house the other group would take the land route via classrooms and students in Changsha had to be Guizhou Province, using available means of borrowed from several local institutions. transportation wherever possible, but traveling on Notifications were sent to faculty and students foot most of the way. Over 200 faculty and who were on summer vacation in many parts of students undertook this arduous journey of 1671 the country, and transportation to Changsha was kilometers, 1,300 of which on foot, taking 68 circuitous and time-consuming. days en-route and arriving at their destination on April 28. When second semester classes finally Under the joint leadership of the three resumed on May 2 in Kunming, the enrollment university presidents, Mei Yi-qi of Tsinghua, was only 993 students. Jiang Menglin of Beida, and Zhang Boling of Nankai, and with the cooperation of their faculty National Southwest United University — The and staff, the reorganization of the academic and Early Years (1938-1941) administrative system was worked out and In April, 1938, Changsha Temporary classes started on November 1,1937. The new University was officially renamed National university began with four colleges (Arts and Southwest United University, abbreviated in Chinese as Lianda. Due to the shortage of Education began considering moving Lianda's available buildings and facilities, classes were valuable books and equipment, as well as the pre- first conducted in a variety of makeshift venues college and freshman classes first to the town of in Kunming, and the College of Arts and Chengjiang, 59 kilometers southeast of Kunming. Humanities and the College of Law and Business At the same time, a safer location for the entire were temporarily housed in the nearby town of university in Sichuan Province was being Mengzi on the bank of the Red River. While a explored. Before any decision had been made, new campus was being planned, Kunming came Japanese aerial bombardment on Kunming under attack by Japanese bombers beginning in intensified after fall semester began, causing September, 1938. Since several middle schools damage to Lianda buildings and injury to teachers and technical institutes were relocated to the and students. Although class and office schedules outskirts of the city, Lianda also took over their were changed to early morning and late evening facilities until a new campus was completed in hours to avoid the danger of air raids, a direct hit the latter half of 1939. This campus consisted of on campus in October accelerated the setting up crudely constructed buildings, many with walls of the branch campus in Xuyong, Sichuan of pounded mud and roofs of thatch, located Province and classes for a total of 600 students outside the city wall with easy access to shelters began there in January, 1941. during air raids. The disadvantages of the Xuyong The administration of Lianda was headed campus, housed in the temples of this remote by a standing committee of three members, town without electricity, running water, library namely the previous presidents of the three and other necessary facilities, far out-weighed the constituent universities. Originally, the safety factor of its location. After enduring many chairmanship of the committee was to be rotated hardships for two semesters, a decision was made annually. However, the presidents of Beida and to close the branch campus and re-consolidate all Nankai were spending most of their time in the classes and students in Kunming beginning fall war-time capital Chongqing and busily engaged semester, 1941. Until after Pearl Harbor and the in other duties. Therefore, Tsinghua's President stationing of the United States 14 Air Force Mei was almost solely in charge of running the Squadron in Kunming, Lianda carried on its day-to-day affairs of the university during its long academic mission under constant Japanese air years in the southwest. He was assisted and raids, at the cost of several lives and extensive advised by a new University Council and an property damage. elected Faculty Council on important matters In spite of such difficult conditions, such as budget, changes in academic programs, Lianda was able to distinguish itself because of facilities planning and other general issues. While its outstanding faculty which upheld high the colleges and departments in the three standards of academic excellence, and its student universities were merged, each was headed by body drawn from eager and high quality only one dean or chairperson. The spirit of candidates from all over the nation. The pre-war cooperation in adversity exhibited by the graduate programs in the three universities were personnel of the three institutions seemed soon restored and operated as separate entities. exemplary, and was responsible for the continuity The College of Engineering was expanded in and success of the academic programs during 1938 -39 to include a new Department of those difficult years. Aeronautics and a special program in Electronic When Indo-China fell to the Japanese in Communication. A College of Education was July, 1940 and Britain closed the Burma-Yunnan added in 1938 to meet the urgent needs of the Highway, the military threat to China's southwest hinterland. Initially, separate degrees were became more imminent. The Ministry of awarded to graduates who had been enrolled in the three universities before Lianda was of government, industry and academia, in China established. Afterwards, undergraduate students as well overseas. The honors they received were all admitted by Lianda. Separate offices included the Nobel Prize (Yang Zhen-ning, were maintained by each component university to Tsinghua graduate school, 1944; Li Zhengdao, handle its graduate program admissions, student Lianda Sophomore, 1945) and other national and and graduate records, and alumni affairs. The international awards. Many more became Tsinghua scholarship program for study abroad members of the Chinese Academy of Science was initially suspended, but later it was resumed (PRC) and Academia Sinica (Taiwan) and held and administered by its own independent office. leadership positions in numerous institutions of higher learning during the latter half of the 20th Lianda's Growth and Expansion (1941-1945) century. During the vicissitudes of war and dislocation, many Lianda undergraduates Although Tsinghua was submerged volunteered for active military service or under the umbrella of Southwest United auxiliary support work behind the front lines. University for nine long years, it is undeniable When Sino-American military cooperation began that it played a major role in the administration, in 1941, large numbers of Lianda students were teaching, and research of the war-time institution. recruited or volunteered for translation work in Aside from the presidency, Tsinghua faculty the joint operations. A special translation training members almost consistently occupied deanship program was set up in Kunming in 1943, led and positions in the Colleges of Arts and Humanities,
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