1952 reorganization of higher education in China
In China, the 1952 reorganization of higher education institutions (高等学校院系调整) was a national policy under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which came into power in 1949, to adopt Soviet-styled higher education. This policy focused more on engineering education and technical training while removing American influences among Chinese scholars. While eliminating private education, especially missionary higher education, the policy led to the state control over the higher education sector and the loss of faculty governance tradition since the 1920s. This served the Communist agenda to break up the prestigious universities established under the Republic of China, to weaken the historical ties between the university and the faculty, and to establish the political and organisational authority of the new Communist government over the higher education system. The reorganisation involved most of the higher education institutions in mainland China and influenced the basic structure of Chinese higher education today.
John Dewey and his Chinese students, which included Hu Shih, one of the most influential thought leaders in China
After the reorganisation, Tsinghua University became a multi-discipline engineering-focused university with only 8 academic departments left
Peking University (PKU) is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with and funded by the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, the Double First-Class Construction, and the C9 League.
William Alexander Parson Martin, Dean of the Department of Western Learning with his students.
The faculty of Peking University Institute for Chinese Classics in 1924
Peking University students protesting the Treaty of Versailles in the May Fourth Movement.
Peking University's West Gate, one of the symbols of the university campus
