In this video, we talk about Tsinghua University, the alma mater of both China’s current president, Xi Jinping, and his predecessor, Hu Jintao.
Even before its founding in 1911, the history of Tsinghua had already been tightly intertwined with China’s modern history. We will see how Tsinghua was founded thanks to money from the American government, how it survived the Japanese invasion, how it reacted to the arrival of the communists, and how it was able to produce so many graduates who changed the fate of China. Also, we will explain why there are currently two Tsinghua Universities.
0:00 - Intro
1:09 - Gift from America
6:05 - World War II and Chinese Civil War
9:00 - Embracing the Communist Party
14:45 - Cultural Revolution
19:20 - A New Birth
25:50 - Tsinghua in Taiwan
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