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Peking University：An Introduction
1.北京大学简介：A Brief History……………………………………1
2.燕园景观：Main Sights on Campus ………………………………3
3.西门：The West Gate………………………………………………3
4.办公楼：University Administration Building …………4
5.华表：The Ornamental Columns …………………………………5
6.南北阁楼: The South and North Pavilions…………………………5
7.未名湖与博雅塔：The “Unnamed” Lake & Boya Pagoda ……….6
8.翻尾石鱼与石舫：Relics on the Lakeside……………………7
9.临湖轩：Lin Hu Xuan (University Reception Hou) ….……8
10.蔡元培雕像：Statue of Cai Yuanpei …………………………8
皮肤测试11.斯诺墓：Tomb of Edgar Snow………………………………9
12.赛克勒考古博物馆：Arthur M. Sackler Muum of
Art and Archaeology ……………………………………10
13.图书馆：Peking University Library………………………………12
14.百年纪念讲堂：Centennial Commemorative Hall……13
1．北京大学简介
Peking University：A Brief History
Peking University was founded in 1898, and had as its first English name我成全 the Imperial University of Peking. It was the first national comprehensive university and the highest administrative organ for education in China. The establishment of this University marked the beginning of China's modern history of higher education. It was in 1912, after the Revolution of 1911, that the University adopted its prent name. In 1917, when Mr. Cai Yuanpei, an outstanding scholar and educator, was appointed内色 President of Peking University, he succeeded in transforming the University from an imperial school into a modern university. Peking University also became the center of the Chine New-Culture Movement and the earliest ba for the spread of Marxism in China. By 1919, Peking University had developed into China’s largest institution of higher
learning, with 14 departments and more than 2,000 students. Since then Peking University has remained for many decades the center of modern culture and democracy in China.
During the War of Resistance against Japane体育培训 invasion in the 1930s, Peking University moved to Kunming, in Yunnan Province in the southwest, and formed the National Southwestern Associated University together with Tsinghua University and Nankai University. In 1946, after the victory of the anti-Japane War, Peking University moved back to Beijing. At that time Peking University was compod of six schools (Arts, Science, Law, Medicine, Engineering，and Agriculture), and a rearch institute for Humanities. The total enrollment of students彭禹繁 had grown to 3,000.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the Central Government carried out a nationwide readjustment of colleges and universities in 1952，in the hope that it could promote higher education and educate students in terms of specialized knowledge and skills by redistributing resources. After the readjustment, Peking Universit
y became a university with departments of both liberal arts and sciences. By 1962, the total enrollment had rin to 10,671 undergraduate students and 280 graduate students. It was in that year that Peking University moved to its prent campus, which had been the campus of Yenching University.
Since the late 1970s Peking University has been in a process of unprecedented development in both size and quality. In 2000, the former Beijing Medical University was incorporated into Peking University, which is now a fully comprehensive university with multiple disciplines, including Natural Sciences, Humanities, Social Sciences, Management Sciences, Medical Science, and Engineering. To students from home and abroad, it offers a large range of undergraduate programs，Masters programs, and Ph. D. programs. The University consists of 30 schools and 12 departments, with 93 disciplines for undergraduates, two disciplines for the cond Bachelor's degree, 199 disciplines for Master candidates,bamboo and 173 disciplines for Doctoral candidates. Additionally, it has 216 rearch institutes and rearch centers, including two national engineering rearch centers, 81 national key disciplines, and 12 national ke
y laboratories. The current President of Peking University is Professor Xu Zhihong, a well-respected biologist and academician of the Chine Academy of Sciences.
Peking University lays emphasis on both teaching and scientific rearch. Great efforts have been made to reform in all possible ways and improve the quality of undergraduate and graduate education, and maintain the role 工商管理学什么of the University as a leading rearch institution. Named after Cai Yuanpei, a special program was initiated in 2001 as part of the undergraduate teaching reform. The program is characterized by 精益管理心得体会a focus on general education, which goes through the first two undergraduate years and is followed by more specialized education in the other two years. The objective is to strengthen the training in basic abilities before students devote themlves to a specialized field.
Peking University has also connected itlf to the global academic community. It has established partnership with about 200 universities from over 44 countries and regions and thus cultivated a worldwide network for academic exchange and cooperation. Each year Peking University invites over 300 foreign experts for teaching and rearch and hos
ts around 400 international conferences. Meanwhile, Peking University faculty and students make over 5,000 overas visits for advanced rearch and training or academic conferences. The number of international students at Peking University is more than 3000, who come from dozens of courtiers and regions.
