Overview
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1897
Quishi Academy, the forerunner of the modern-day Zhejiang University (ZJU), was founded to be a modern academy of higher education in China.
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1928
The enlarged school was renamed National Chekiang University. During the war period (1937-1949), it was praised as one of the four prominent universities in the Republic of China
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1936
Professor Chu Kochen became the President of National Chekiang Universitya nd would leave a profound imprint. Addressing new students in 1936, he posted two questions: “First, why do you come here? Second, who do you want to become after graduation?”
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Location of Zhejiang University
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