| University of Nanking 金陵大學 |
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| Alternative Names: | Jinling Daxue 金陵大學; Nanking University |
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| Type: | Higher education / University |
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| Location: | Nanking / Nanjing 南京 |
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Source: World Missionary Atlas. New York, 1925.
President: Rev. Arthur J. Bowen, LL.D.
Office: Nanking
Objective: The object of the University is to prepare Christian leaders to provide educational advantages for the children of our Christian constituencies, and to promote higher education in China under Christian influences and in harmony with the Word of God.
Income: Mission board appropriations, $27,000 (Mexican). Student fees (tuition only), $55,896 (Mexican). From general endowment funds $17,500 (Mexican). The designation of three-quarters of the balance left from the General China Famine Fund to the University for famine prevention work will provide an annual income of approximately $30,000 (Gold) for this purpose.
Official Periodical: "University of Nanking Bulletin."
Field: China (Kiangsu).
Note: Nanking University was founded in 1888, as an institution of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church; the union of higher educational activities in Nanking was effected in February, 1910, by the cooperation of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., and the United Christian Missionary Society. The American Baptist Foreign Mission Society has also joined on a partial basis of cooperation. This University was granted a charter in April, 1911, by the University of the State of New York.
Source: Lutz,
China and the Christian Colleges, 1971
Nanking University was started in the home of its first president, John C. Ferguson in 1888. After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95, Nanking University had to rent another house in order to take care of its growing enrollment. In 1906, the upper classes of the Presbyterian Academy and Nanking Christian College joined to form Union Christian College. In 1910, Union Christian College and Nanking University merged to become the University of Nanking. When the China medical Board took over Peking Union Medical College in 1915, the medical department of the University of Nanking, along with several other schools, decided to transfer its work to Tsinan. In 1925, the University had an enrollment of 461 students.
The university was a pioneer in vocational education. The University of Nanking had an exchange program with the School of Agriculture of Cornell University whereby they secured specialists who helped initiate research projects. In 1919, for the first time, the university required formal, written examinations for entrance. Among other institutions, the University of Nanking had made courses on Christianity and the Bible elective by 1925. By 1929, it had completed the registration process of the school. In the agriculture realm, the work of the school was astonishing and for a few years it served as the registration center of new hybrids of small grains and operated the National Bureau of Agricultural Research for the government. In 1937, in the wake of the Japanese push into China, the school had relocated around West China Union University in Chengtu.
The University of Nanking was one of the pioneers in the demonstration effect of modern agricultural research and training and its impact on economic growth.
Staff: Chao Chi-yuan was the head of the department of law at the University of Nanking. The department was abolished during the 1952 reorganization of the schools.
Presidents: John C. Ferguson(first president)
Chen Yu-kuang
The following was compiled by: Peter Tze Ming Ng
Date of Establishment: 1888
Religious Affiliation: Protestant, Inter-denominational
Sponsoring Bodies:
Methodist Episcopal Church (美以美會)
Disciples of Christ （基督會）
American Presbyterian Church, North （美北長老會）
American Baptist Mission （美國浸禮會）
List of Presidents:
J. C. Ferguson (1888-1896)
G. A. Stuart (1896- 1907)
A.G. Bowen (1907-1927)
Yuguang Chen 【陳裕光 Chen Yu-guang】(1927-1951)
Short History:
Nanking University （匯文書院）was started by Rev. C.H. Fouler, a missionary of the American Methodist Episcopal Mission in 1888. It was joined by Union Christian College （宏育書院）in 1905 to become University of Nanking （金陵大學）. The Union Christian College was formerly a union of Nanking Christian College（基督書院）founded by United Christian Missionary Society in1890 and The Presbyterian Academy （益智書院）which was founded by the American Presbyterian Mission in 1903. The new college was registered with the New York State Education Department in 1911 and was administered under the Board of Directors appointed by Methodist Episcopal Church, Disciples of Christ and the American Presbyterian Church (North). The American Baptist Mission joined in 1913. The college was later registered with the Chinese Government in Beijing in 1925 and was renamed “The University of Nanking”.
Existing Archives:
1. The Second Historical Archives of China, Nanjing
2. United Board Archives at Yale University Divinity School Library Special Collections
3. General Library, University of California at Berkeley, USA
4. Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library, Princeton University
5. The Burke Library Union Theological Seminary, New York
Also consult Archie Crouch, Christianity in China: A Scholars’ Guide to Resources in the Libraries and Archives of The United States. N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1989.
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Other Resources:
1. American Asiatic Association. “University of Nanking.” Journal of American Asiatic Association, Vol.12, No.6 (1912), pp. 184-185.
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