Peking university

    Peking university is a foremost chinese research university situated in beijing and a associate of the C9 league. It is the earliest modern national university founded in china, established in 1898 as the "imperial university of peking" as a replacement of the ancient imperial academy.  It also served as the highest organization for education in china at the beginning of its establishment.  It had become a hub for progressive thought by 1920. Along with tsinghua university, peking university is regularly ranked as the top advanced learning institution in mainland China. In addition to educational, peking university is especially well known for its university grounds  and the beauty of its traditional chinese architecture.since its establishment  the university has educated and hosted many well-known modern chinese thinkers, including personas such as: lu xun, mao zedong, gu hongming, hu shih, li dazhao, and chen duxiu. Peking university was persuading in the birth of china's new culture movement, may fourth movement , the tiananmen square protest of 1989  and many other important events.

History

    When it was founded on july 3, 1898, the school was first known as the imperial university of peking. It was founded to replace Taixue or Guozijian, or imperial academy, as part of the hundred days' reform. Following the xinhai revolution in 1912, the imperial university was renamed "national peking university". The well-known scholar Cai Yuanpei was assigned president on january 4, 1917, and facilitated make over the university into the country's largest institution of higher learning, with 14 departments and an enrollment of more than 2,000 students. Cai motivated by the german model of educational freedom, employed an intellectually different faculty that included Hu Shih, Chen Duxiu and Lu Xun. In 1919, students of peking university organized the massive protesters of the May fourth movement. Attempts by the beiyang government to conclude the protests by shutting off the peking university campus led to cai's resignation. In 1920, peking university became the first chinese university to enroll female students.

    After the outburst of the second sino-japanese war in 1937 (and the resulting extension of japanese territorial control in east china), peking university shifted to Changsha and became the changsha temporary university along with Tsinghua University and Nankai University. The three schools moved again in 1938, this time to Kunming, and became the national southwestern associated university. After world war ii in 1946, peking university shifted back to beijing. At that point of time, the university included six schools (arts, science, law, medicine, engineering, and agriculture), and a research institute for humanities. The total student enrollment reached up to 3,000.

After the people's republic of china was established in 1949, peking university lost its "national" title to reflect the fact that all universities under the new socialist state would be public. The chinese government re-assembled the country's higher education institutions with individual institutions have a propensity to specialize in a certain field of study in 1952. As a result, arts and science faculties of tsinghua university and yenching university were combined into peking university. However, at the same time, the university lost its law, medicine, engineering and agriculture schools. These schools and faculties were either combined into other universities or to set up new colleges. During the re-arranging, yenching university was closed and peking university shifted from downtown beijing to the ex-yenching campus.in 1966, the first disturbances of the cultural revolution began at peking university ceasing  education between 1966 and 1970.

    In 2000, beijing medical university was combined back into peking university and became the peking university health science campus. Beijing medical university was a part of  medical school of peking university  which was separated from peking university at 1952. Peking university at the present has eight associated  hospitals and 12 teaching hospitals. In 2001, peking university founded the yuanpei program which was legalized in 2007 as Yuanpei college, named in honor of a extremely respected former university president Cai yuanpei. The college hosts an privileged undergraduate broadminded program for selected students. In 2001, peking university arranged a satellite campus  in shenzhen. In 2004, the university established second business school that was launched on this campus.

   
    In 2014, peking university declared Yenching scholars, a new universal graduate leaders program, which will be commenced in 2015 and will be situated in the newly completed suburbanYenching academy in the center of campus. The program will offer 100 privileged students full scholarships for one-year of interdisciplinary studies escorting to a master's degree. In 2014, peking university connected the asian future leaders scholarship program, which will begin in 2015. The program will propose 100 students from east asia a full scholarship for a mba or mpa at a few foremost universities in asia, including peking university.