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Peking University

founded 1898 · 19th century · Also known as PKU, Imperial University of Peking, National University of Peking

Peking University is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, founded in 1898 as the Imperial University of Peking by royal charter of the Guangxu Emperor during the Hundred Days' Reform; it is the second-oldest university in China after Tianjin University. Renamed in 1912, it was transformed under Cai Yuanpei, president from 1917, into the country's largest institution of higher learning, with a faculty that included Hu Shih, Li Dazhao, Chen Duxiu and Lu Xun. Its students helped lead the protest of 4 May 1919 against the Treaty of Versailles. In 1952 it merged with Yenching University.

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