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Soochow University (1900–1952)

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in 1900 as a merger of three existing institutions: the Buffington Institute and the Kung Hang School in the city of Soochow (now spelled Suzhou), in Jiangsu Province, and the Anglo-Chinese College in Shanghai, which at the time was also part of Jiangsu Province. In 1901, the university registered in
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government in 1952, with its faculties amalgamated with parts of other universities to create various specialist universities in Suzhou and Shanghai. One of these specialist institutions, the Jiangsu Teacher's College (also known as Jiangsu Normal School), took over the main Suzhou campus of the old
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After the establishment of the PRC, the institution in Suzhou merged with the Southern Jiangsu College of Culture and Education and the Department of Mathematics and Physics at Jiangnan University to form the Jiangsu Teacher's College in 1952, while the law school in Shanghai merged into the East
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China University of Politics and Law. The English name Soochow University was revived in 1982 by the Jiangsu Teacher’s College; however, the original Chinese name
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Soochow University was especially well known for the quality of its law school, based in Shanghai.
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who was also the founder of the predecessor Kung Hang School.
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List of Protestant missionary societies in China (1807–1953)
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the state of Tennessee in the United States under the name
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Soochow University, and in 1982 adopted the English name
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31°18′16″N 120°38′13″E / 31.30439°N 120.63706°E / 31.30439; 120.63706
Soochow University (Taiwan)
Soochow University (Suzhou)
Chinese
Suzhou
Shanghai
China
Tennessee
United States
Chinese Civil War
People's Republic of China
Soochow University
A different university by the same name
Taiwan
Methodist
Suzhou
Jiangsu
Qing dynasty
David Lawrence Anderson
university
Taiwan
Wu region
Chinese Civil War
mainland China

simplified Chinese
traditional Chinese
pinyin
Soochow University (Suzhou)

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