To serve its students who were interested in Chinese, in 1961 Stanford University negotiated with the ROC Ministry of Education (MOE) and NTU to establish the Stanford Center at NTU and to begin to send students to Taiwan.
一九六一年，加州史丹福大學為了服務校內對中文有興趣的學生，和中華民國的教育部及台灣大學交涉，在台大成立了史丹福中心，開始送學生來台灣學中文。