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Xiaoqing Diana Lin. Peking University: Chinese Scholarship and Intellectuals, 1898–1937. (Suny Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture.) Albany: State University of New York Press. 2005. Pp. xi, 233. $55.00.

One of the most significant institutional initiatives of the late nineteenth-century reform movement in Qing China was the plan (first put forward in 1896) to establish an imperial university (jingshi daxuetang) in Beijing. Surviving the conservative backlash against reform in September 1898, the university was formally opened in December 1898. Temporarily closed during the Boxer crisis of 1900–1901, it was reopened in 1902 and, after the Republican revolution of 1911–1912, became known as Beijing University (Beida). As such Beida is China's oldest and most renowned university, and a recent study (Timothy Weston, The Power of Position [2004]) underlines its role in the political and cultural upheavals of twentieth-century China. The book under review likewise emphasizes the national importance of Beijing (Peking) University, arguing that it was at the center of major intellectual developments in the twentieth century.

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