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5 unusual facts about National Central University


Hans Driesch

In 1919 he was ordinary professor of systematic philosophy at Cologne and in 1921 professor of philosophy at Leipzig, though he was a visiting professor in Nanjing and Beijing during 1922-23, and in 1923 he received honorable doctor's degree from National Southeastern University (later renamed National Central University and Nanjing University) where he taught for a semester.

Janine Chang

In June 2010, Chang graduated from the Institute of Industrial Economics at National Central University with a master's degree.

National Central University

The university's Taoyuan County campus is situated in the northern part of the island, about 45 minutes from Taipei.

Ping King Tien

He did his undergraduate studies in the National Central University (National Central university was renamed to Nanjing University in Mainland China in 1952, and its engineering faculty was split-off and became today's Southeast University. However, its offspring in Taiwan continues this name) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Yuan-Cheng Fung

He earned a Bachelor's degree in 1941 and a Master's degree in 1943 from the National Central University (later renamed Nanjing University in mainland China and reinstated in Taiwan), and earned a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in the United States in 1948.


Chung Laung Liu

He was a Visiting Professor at City University of Hong Kong, and at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, and Li K. T. Honorary Chair Professor at National Central University.

History of education in China

The so-called Famous four universities were especially well documented during war period, namely the National Central University, the Wuhan University, the Zhejiang University, and the National Southwestern Associated University.

Shapingba District

On February 6, 1938, the Chongqing University, the Sichuan College of Education, the Chongqing Nankai Middle School, the Chongqing Electrical Steel Works and several institutions which settled at Shapingba from Beijing, Shanghai or Nanjing such as the National Central University, the China Radio International, and the Academia Sinica, also the business and the financial together set the Chongqing Shaci Cultural District.

Taiwanese–American Occultation Survey

TAOS is a joint effort of Academia Sinica, Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, The Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, National Central University, Institute of Astronomy and Yonsei University, South Korea.


see also

Wang Maozu

In 1927, he resigned from National Central University and established Suzhou High School, based on Jiangsu Provincial No.1

Zeng Liansong

He entered the economics department at the National Central University in 1936 (renamed Nanjing University in 1949).