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　　Tsinghua UnVversity, Free and Independent SpiritThe Tsinghua College（清华学堂）was established in Beijing, China, on 22 April 1911 0n the site of a former royal garden belonging to a prince. It was fundedby the Boxer Rebellion Indemnity Scholarship Program, which consisted of unexpected surplus money from indemnities China had paid to the United States following the Boxer Rebellion.It was first a preparatory scliool for students later sent by the government to study in the United States. The faculty members for sciences were recruited by the YMCA from the United States and its graduates were transferred directly to American schools as juniors upon graduation. In 1925, the school established its College Department and started its research institute on Chinese Study.

　　In 1928,the authority officially changed its name to the National Tsing Hua University (NTHU). During the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937,Tsinghua University along with Peking University and Nankai University,merged to form Changsha Temporary University in Changsha,and later the National Southwestern Associated University in Kunming of Yunnan province, After the war, Tsinghua moved back to Beijing and resumed its operation.

　　After the communist takeover at the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949, which led to the creation of the People's Republic of China (PRC), Tsinghua University's then Presiden Mei Yi-Qi, followed by many[quantified] professors,fled to Taiwan where tliey established the National Tsing Hua Institute of Nuclear Technology in 1955, which later became the National Tsing Hua University of Taiwan.

　　In 1952, the Chinese government regrouped the country's higher education institution' in an attempt to build a Soviet style system,with individualinstitutions teriding to specialise in a certain field of study. Tsinghua University was disassembled, losing its law school, school of agriculture, school of sciences and humanities, and became a polytechnic engineering university. Even so, Tsinghua University remained in the top tier schools in China. In many years following this regroup, the school was commonly referred to as the "MIT of China". But since the 1980s, the university began to incorporate a multidisciplinary system. As a result, several schools were re-incorporated. These included the School of Sciences,School of Business and Management School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Tsinghua Law School, School of Public Policy and Management, and the Academy of Arts and Design .