Peking University has enjoyed a high reputation and status since its founding. National Peking University is the school name of Peking University from 19 12 to 1949. 1912 on may 5 15, Shi Jing university was renamed as the national Peking University, which was the first university named "national" in the history of China, with Yan Fu as its president.
19 17, Cai Yuanpei became the president of Peking University. He "followed the principle of freedom of thought and took the idea of inclusiveness", which made Peking University emancipate its mind and prosper its studies. Chen Duxiu, Li Dazhao, Zhu Jiahua, Hu Shi and other important historical figures all worked or taught at Peking University during this period, and Lu Xun also served as a lecturer here. Therefore, Peking University has become the center of the "New Culture Movement" and the source of various social thoughts. Peking University is an important birthplace of China's proletarian thought and an important base for the early activities of China's proletarian party. Professor "Nan Li" of Peking University made an appointment to establish the China * * * Production Party in the south and the north respectively. Chen Duxiu was elected as the first general secretary of the Central Committee of China * * *, and Mao Zedong, the former director of Peking University Library, died from 1935 to 1976, becoming the actual leader of China * * *.
On May 4th, 2009, the May 4th Movement broke out. Students from many schools such as Peking University gathered in front of Tiananmen Square. Luo Jialun, Jiang,, drafted the Declaration of Beijing Academic Circles on Theory of Three Represents and Luo Jialun's Student Movement Theory, and held demonstrations. The military police arrested the students on the spot. Cai Yuanpei, Li Dazhao, Chen Duxiu, Zhu Jiahua, Hu Shi and Lu Xun spared no expense in launching a national industrial and commercial strike to rescue students. The patriotic movement of Beijing students has won the sympathy and support of young students and people all over the world. The fire of students' patriotic movement quickly spread throughout the country and developed into a national anti-imperialist patriotic movement.
During the Japanese occupation, school buildings, houses, a large number of books and instruments stayed in Beijing. There were four old professors, Zhou Zuoren, Meng Sen, Ma Yuzao and Feng Zuxun, who did not move with the Kuomintang government because of physical, mental or family factors, so-called "Professor Liu Ping".
Jiang Menglin, the last president of Peking University before the May 4th teachers and students retreated 1, talked about the process of entrusting Zhou Zuoren to stay in his memoir "West Tide" and "New Tide". During the Japanese army's control of North China, it integrated some teachers and students left in Peiping by Medical College, Agricultural College and Beiyang Institute of Technology, so-called "restoring" Peking University. On June 35, 438 +654391October 3, Tang was appointed as the director in charge of school affairs, and on March 28, 65438 +654381October, Zhou Zuoren, the former leader of the library, was hired as the librarian.
1940, Tang was promoted to inspector of the General Administration of Education of the North China Government Affairs Committee, and Qian Daosun was appointed as the principal (new title). In the same year, Tang Yu 1 1 died of illness, Zhou Zuoren was promoted to inspector of the General Administration of Education of the North China Government Affairs Committee on 194 1, and Qian Daosun was the principal and dean of the College of Arts (and dean of the Agricultural College).
On August 1945, Emperor Hirohito of Japan announced his surrender, ending this period.
After War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory, the Ministry of Education of Nanjing National Government announced Hu Shi as the principal on September 4th 1945. At that time, Hu Shi was still handling foreign affairs in the United States, and Fu Sinian was appointed as the agent. Fu dismissed all the faculty members in Wang Jingwei's regime and handed over the school affairs to Hu Shi in July 1946. Hu Shi fled to Nanjing by Kuomintang government plane on February 1948 15. 1February, 949, Beiping was liberated, and Tang Yongtong, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, became the chairman of the Peking University School Committee. 1April, 949, Hu Shi left China by boat from Shanghai under the rule of the Kuomintang, arrived in the United States via Japan (finally settled in new york), and his lover Jiang Dongxiu was sent to Taiwan Province Province first. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the last president of 1 National Peking University was Tang Yongtong.
After the founding of New China, the government adjusted the departments of colleges and universities in 1952. Some teachers of arts and sciences in Tsinghua University and yenching university were merged into Peking University, four departments of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, soil engineering and architectural engineering in Peking University were merged into Tsinghua University, and the department of chemical engineering was merged into Tianjin University. Agricultural College, Medical College, Geology Department and Political Science and Law Department were separated from Peking University, or formed into new colleges or merged into other related ones. The name of the school is Peking University, and it has become a comprehensive university focusing on basic teaching and research of arts and sciences, which has trained a large number of talents for various industries in China.