What is Tsing Hua University?
'''Tsing Hua University''' or '''THU''' is a university in [[Beijing]], [[People's Republic of China]]. It is regarded as one of the best and most selective universities in China. It was established in 1911 as a school for Chinese graduates wanting to go further with their studies at universities in other countries, especially the [[United States]] and the [[UK]]. ==History== Tsing Hua University was opened in Beijing, China in 1911 on the site of a former royal garden belonging to a prince. It was first a ''preparatory school'', a school for preparation, for students to be later sent by the government to study in America. The people who graduated 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 name officially changed to National Tsing Hua University. During [[World War II|the Second World War]] in 1937, Tsing Hua University, along with [[Peking University]] and [[Nankai University]], merged to form [[Chang Sha Temporary University]] in [[Chang Sha]], which later became [[National Southwestern Associated University]] in [[Kunming]] of [[Yunnan]] province. After the war, Tsing Hua moved back to Beijing. The communist victory at the end of the [[Chinese Civil War]] in 1949 led to the creation of the People's Republic of China, so the university's President Mei Yi Qi and some professors went to [[Taiwan]] where they established the National Tsing Hua Institute of Nuclear Technology in 1955, which later became [[National Tsing Hua University]]. In 1952, the communist government regrouped the country's higher education institutions in an attempt to build a [[Soviet]] style system, with individual institutions specialising in a certain field of study. TsingHua University was disassembled, losing its [[law school]], school of [[agriculture]], school of [[Science|sciences]] and [[humanities]], and became a polytechnic [[engineering]] university. Even so, the Universi