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Fudan University

Street: 220 Handan Rd, Yangpu District
Country: China
Zip/Postal Code: 200437
Listed: August 11, 2022 12:05 am
Expires: 9382 days, 8 hours

Description

Fudan University was established in 1905 as Fudan Public School. It was the first institution of higher education to be founded by a Chinese person. The two characters, fù (“return”) and dàn (“dawn”) were borrowed from A Commentary on The Classic of History （《尚书大传·虞夏传》）, of which the part on the Yu and the Xia dynasties mentions: “Brilliant are the sunshine and moonlight, again the morning radiance returns at dawn.” In 1917, the institution was renamed Fudan University, which has been kept ever since.