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Lingnan University (Lingnan) is located in Tuen Mun, New Territories, Hong Kong.It intertwines research with teaching. Lingnan University has 3 faculties, 2 Schools, 16 departments, 2 language centres, and 2 units (science and music), offering 29 degree honours programmes spanning various disciplines in humanities, business, and social sciences.
History An old building of Lingnan University, now located in Sun Yat-sen University. The university was originally founded in 1888 by Andrew Happer at the request of the American Presbyterian Mission in Canton with the goal of providing a non-denominational Christian education. The university split, relocated, and was separately incorporated ...
History University Seal, 1932-1949 National Sun Yat-sen University Wenming Road Campus, 1924-1935 Bell Tower, Hosting space of the 1st National Congress of Kuomintang (KMT).. In the beginning each the Sun Yat-sen Universities were adopted a statism educational model (中山大學模式) and based on Sun Yat-sen's political philosophy, present-day Sun Yat-sen University is the result of ...
Chung Wing Kwong. Chung Wing Kwong: Lingnan University Yearbook 1925 (page 8 crop) Chung Wing Kwong (鍾榮光, 1866–1942) was a scholar and revolutionist in China. He devoted most of his life in Lingnan University, being the first Chinese principal of the university, and revolution of China .
Wing-tsit Chan (Chinese: 陳榮捷; 18 August 1901 – 12 August 1994) was a Chinese scholar and professor best known for his studies of Chinese philosophy and his translations of Chinese philosophical texts.
Edmunds was born in Baltimore and attended Johns Hopkins University, graduating in 1897. [2] He taught physics at the University of Utah during the 1898–1899 academic year, and subsequently moved to China to teach physics and engineering at Lingnan University in Canton, China. [2] He became president of Lingnan in 1907, serving until 1924.
The history of the university dates back to the "Leiyang Academy" ( 雷阳书院) founded in 1636. In 1904, it started its education training program. In 1978, it became Leizhou Normal College, and was elevated to Zhanjiang Normal University in 1991. Zhanjiang Normal University changed its name to Lingnan Normal University in 2014.
The Lingnan University Library, named after the late benefactor Fong Sum Wood in 1998, is located in the Main Building of Lingnan University, Hong Kong and occupies four floors. Beginning in 1968, the Library currently holds over 530,000 volumes of books in English and Chinese , bound journals and audio-visual materials with subjects including ...