Tongji University

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Tongji University
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founding 1907 (first foundation)
Sponsorship state
place Jiading and Yangpu in Shanghai , People's Republic of China
president Zhihua Zhong
Employee 2,786
including professors 855
Website www.tongji.edu.cn

The Tongji University ( Chinese  同濟大學  /  同济大学 , Pinyin Tóngjì Dàxué ) is a university in the People's Republic of China . As a priority university, it is directly subordinate to the Chinese Ministry of Education and is one of 33 universities that are to be built into world-famous universities according to the state education program "Project 985". The university is particularly known for engineering, economics and architecture. The School of Economics and Management (Tongji SEM) is three times accredited  ( AMBA ,  AACSB  and EQUIS ) and thus has the so-called " Triple Crown ". Tongji University was founded in 1907 by the German government together with German doctors in Shanghai.

Founding history

The forerunner of Tongji University was the "German Medical School for Chinese in Shanghai". It was founded in 1907 by the German government as the first major foreign cultural policy project. The German Consul General in Shanghai, Wilhelm Knappe , and the Ministerial Director in the Prussian Ministry of Education, Friedrich Althoff , were particularly committed to this . They worked together with the German doctors Erich Paulun , Oscar von Schab and Paul Krieg , who ran a hospital for the Chinese, the Tung-Chee Hospital (Tongji-Hospital), built on Paulun's initiative in Shanghai. This served as a teaching hospital from October 1909, but was run independently of the medical school.

In 1912 the German government added the "German Engineering School for Chinese in Shanghai" to the medical school with a training workshop. She was supported to a much greater extent than at the medical school by German companies interested in the Chinese market, including Krupp, Thyssen, Siemens, Bayer, BASF and Deutsche Bank. A language school prepared the Chinese students for German-language specialist studies.

In 1917 the "German School of Medicine and Engineering for Chinese in Shanghai" was closed by the French colonial power. However, it was temporarily continued in other buildings with Chinese help and, after the Chinese government had recognized it as a university in 1923, reopened as the Chinese Tongji University in 1924. Their technical equipment was once again donated by German industry, and German lecturers continued to give specialist instruction in German. This laid the foundations for a German-Chinese collaboration that is still maintained today at Tongji University. For this purpose, a Chinese-German university college was founded in 1998 to set a prime example of the exchange of knowledge between China and Germany.

University

Monument in front of the establishment

The number of all apprentices and trainees is around 54,000. This is to become 22,000 Bachelor, 11,000 Master and 3,000 PhDs. There are currently over 4,800 lecturers and research staff at the university, including 2,400 full and associate professors. Of these, 300 PhD supervisors and 13 members each from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering.

The university has 15 state research institutions with specialty laboratories at national, provincial and ministerial levels as well as research institutions for engineering. In addition, four clinics and three secondary schools are attached to the university.

Former Rector of Tongji University Wan Gang was appointed Minister of Science of the People's Republic of China on April 27, 2007.

The campuses

The teaching and research facilities are spread over two campuses.

In the city center, located in the Yangpu district , is the so-called Siping Campus.

The connection is via the Tongji University metro station on line 10.

Outside the city center, in the Jiading District , is the Jiading Campus. Engineering courses and research institutions are mainly concentrated on the spacious grounds. Among other things, there is a Maglev test track on the site.

The connection is via the Shanghai Automobile City metro station on line 11.

There is also an hourly shuttle bus service between the campuses. The journey time is between one and two hours, depending on the traffic situation.

Academic teaching hospitals

Tongji University School of Medicine main building, Shanghai

The teaching hospitals ('affiliated hospitals') of the university's medical faculty are:

  • Tongji Hospital
  • Tenth People Hospital
  • Shanghai East Hospital
  • Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital
  • First Maternity and Infant Health Hospital
  • Yangpu Hospital
  • Yangzhi Rehabilitation Hospital

Summer academies and exchange programs

The university offers various summer academies (sometimes together with partner universities) :

  • Under the title Shanghai-Hessen International Summer Courses , from September 3 to 28, 2007, professors from Hessian universities and Tongji University jointly presented a compact program on the subjects of urban development, architecture and economy.
  • A partnership between Ruhr University Bochum and Tongji University has existed since 1979, under which an agreement for a summer school program was concluded in 2002 . Here, students are given the opportunity to take part in an intensive eight-week language course after the 2nd semester.
  • further summer academies are z. B. offered in cooperation with the Technical Universities of Darmstadt and Berlin .

Tongji University's medical faculty offers one of the largest international exchange programs in the PRC for medical students at its teaching hospital, Shanghai East Hospital .

President

Erich Paulun

Professors (selection)

Former students (selection)

  • Qiao Shi (乔石) (* 1924), Chinese communist politician, former chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
  • Qiu Fazu (裘 法 祖) (1914–2008), Chinese surgeon and rescuer of Jewish prisoners
  • Wan Gang (万 钢) (* 1952), Minister of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China, automotive engineer, former President of Tongji University
  • Wu Qidi (吴启迪) (* 1947), Chinese scientist, Deputy Minister of Education of the People's Republic of China, former President of Tongji University
  • Wu Xiangming (* 1938), responsible for the world's first commercial implementation of the Transrapid technology
  • Wang Xiaohui (王小慧) (* 1957), Chinese photographer and book author

Honorary title

Tongji University awarded at least six honorary doctorates and 87 honorary professorships from 1984 to 2010, half of which were given to German citizens.

Honorary doctors

Honorary Professors (selection)

Consulting professors (selection)

See also

literature

  • Rotraut Bieg-Brentzel: The Tongji University. On the history of German cultural work in Shanghai , Haag + Herchen, Frankfurt am Main 1984, Heidelberger Schriften zur Ostasienkunde 6, ISBN 3-88129-859-2 .
  • Roswitha Reinbothe (ed.): Tongji University in Shanghai. Documents on the founding history , Harrassowitz Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-447-06063-9 .
  • Noyan Dinçkal / Detlev Mares: "German Science and Chinese Spiritual Culture". The Tongji University in Shanghai and German foreign cultural policy 1907–1937. In: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft 60th volume (2012), pp. 697–714.

Web links

Wikisource: Announcement of the German-Chinese agreement on the funding of the Chinese-German college at Tong-Ji University in Shanghai  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Introduction ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tongji.edu.cn
  2. ^ The Triple Accredited Business Schools (AACSB, AMBA, EQUIS). Retrieved July 27, 2017 (American English).
  3. ↑ Erich von Salzmann: Dr. Paul war. The life picture of a German cultural pioneer in East Asia . In: The German Abroad . Volume 10 (1927), No. 7 . Karl Weinbrenner & Sons, Stuttgart 1927, p. 210-215 (214) .
  4. ↑ from: Roswitha Reinbothe (ed.): Tongji University in Shanghai. Documents on the founding history
  5. ↑ Affiliated Hospitals of Tongji University School of Medicine accessed on 08/02/20
  6. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
  7. ^ Website for exchange and cooperation between Tongji University and Germany. (No longer available online.) In: de.tongji.edu.cn. Archived from the original on October 12, 2013 ; Retrieved October 23, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / de.tongji.edu.cn
  8. ^ Website for exchange and cooperation between Tongji University and Germany. (No longer available online.) In: de.tongji.edu.cn. Archived from the original on April 6, 2013 ; Retrieved October 23, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / de.tongji.edu.cn
  9. ^ Medical exchange program of the Medical Faculty of Tongji University , accessed 22/02/2020
  10. ↑ Location: Home >> Exchange >> Personnel exchange >> Honors . tongji.edu.cn. Archived from the original on October 5, 2008. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 6, 2010.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / de.tongji.edu.cn
  11. ↑ The honorary title of Tongji University (PDF), CDHK 03/02, now offline ( memento of the original from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ifvw.de