Founded in 1895 as Peiyang University, Tianjin University is the oldest institute of higher education in China, and pioneered the development of modern Chinese education.
Professor Li Rui
Li Rui was born in Ping Ding County, Shanxi Province. He participated in the revolutionary work in June, 1938 and joined in the Communist Party of China in October. He served as clerical staff of the Ministry of Guerrilla Detachment in Xi Yang County of Shanxi Province, instructor of the Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Kowloon Detachment First Company in Eastern Shanxi, political instructor of the communication team, radio station and Guard Company
Professor Hu Pansheng
Hu Pansheng was born in Chi Ping County, Shandong Province, 1917. During the Anti-Japanese War, he was appointed as the “Commander of the Anti-Japanese Self-Defense Forces in Bo Ping, Shang Dong Province”, Deputy Chief of the Vanguard Column Fifth Battalion of the Eighth Route Army, Battalion Chief of the Hua Shan Job Corps of the 15th Division in Eighth Route Army, Political Commissar of the Far East Brigade in Western Shandong Province, Po...
Mr. Lu Da
Lu Da was born in An Guo, Hebei Province. He was Deputy Director of the Organization Department of the CPC Tianjin Municipal Committee, Vice Party Secretary of the Tianjin Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CPC (concurrent), Deputy Director of Tianjin Municipal Commission for Supervision, First Secretary of Tanggu District Committee of Tianjin, Member and Secretary-General of Standing Committee of the Tianjin CPC Committee, ...
Professor Zang Boping
Zang Boping was born in Tang County, Zhili (now Hebei Province) in 1913. He graduated from Peking Republic University. He held many important posts locally and nationally in CPC. He was the County Party Secretary of Tang Xian County (1937), Head of Jianping County and Lingshou County (1941) in Hebei Province, Commissioner of the 4th and 11th Government Office in the Shanxi-Chahar- Hebei Border Area, Standing Member of the Prefectural Party Com...
Professor Su Zhuang
Su Zhuang was born in Man Cheng County, Hebei Province in 1960. He graduated from Beijing Normal University in 1932. Before the founding of PRC, he successively held the posts as political instructor of Chinese People’s Anti-Japanese Military and Political College, Deputy Director-general of the Education Department and Director-general of the Culture & Education Office in the Northeast Revolutionary Base Area, Head of the Northeast Higher
Professor Jia Zhen
Jia Zhen was born in Le Ling County, Shandong Province (1909-1993). He acted as the County Party Secretary of Le Ling County and Commissioner of Jin Nan Special Party Committee. In the spring of 1937, he arrived Yan An, there he assumed the Officer of the Central Clerical Department and CCCPC (the Organizing Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China), and the Director-General of the Organization Department of the Part...
Professor Li Shusen
Li Shusen, born in Ba County, Hebei Province, graduated from Beiping Normal University in 1934. Mr. Li joined the Eighth Route Army in September 1937, and became a member of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 1938. From 1937 to 1945, Mr. Li served as Director of the Political Department of Jinsui 8th Military Division.
Professor Zhang Guofan
Zhang Guofan, born in Anlu Cunty, Hubei Province, was a physicist, an expert on mechanics, an educator and 1st-Class Professor in China. Dr. Zhang received his Bachelor’s Degree from Shanghai Lujiang College in 1930, his M. S. from Cornell University, USA, in 1933, and earned his Ph. D. from the University of Iowa, USA, in 1935. Dr. Zhang devoted his life to higher education in China. After returning to China in 1935, he assumed his professor...
Professor Wu De
Wu De was born in Fengrun County, Hebei Province. He dedicated himself to Chinese revolutionary activities since 1932 and joined the CPC in March, 1933. From 1933 to 1937, he was engaged in the labor movement of the Party, holding many important positions locally and nationally. During the Anti-Japanese War, he organized the armed uprising in Eastern Hebei Province and directly led and launched the Kailuan Coal Mine Workers Uprising. In the pe...
Professor Liu Xiying
Liu Xiying, famous educator and expert in Electrical Machinery in China, was born in Luan Zhou, Zhili (now Luan County, Hebei Province). After enrolment in Peiyang University in1917, he went aboard for further study; he first entered the Electrical Engineering Department of M.I.T, and then the Graduate School of Harvard University and received Master’s Degree in Electrical Machinery in 1924. In 1925, he returned to China. Liu Xiying worked su...
Professor Zhang Hanying
Zhang Hanying, born in Heze, Shandong Province, was an expert on Hydraulics and a pioneer in the development of the hydraulic systems in China. He entered Peiyang University in 1918, studying Civil Engineering. In 1925, he earned his M. E. from Cornell University, USA. From 1937 to 1945, Mr. Zhang was the leader of the Yellow River Commission, serving as the President, Secretary-General, and the Engineer-in-Chief. From 1950 to 1979, Mr. Zhang ...
Professor Zhong Shiming
Zhong Shiming was born in Tianjin. He registered in Peiyang University in 1903, and was recommended for his excellence to further his study in the Department of Law of Harvard University in 1906, where he got his PhD of Law. For his outstanding behavior, he was awarded the Jinshi (Tien Si) of Political and Law by Xuantong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty In 1911. He held the posts of Secretary-general of the Salt Works Bureau and Vice-minister of t...
Professor Jin Wenzhu
Jin Wenzhu was born in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province. He studied in the Civil Engineering Department of Peiyang University during 1912 to 1915. He served successively as professor, Secretary-general and Dean of College of Science of Fudan University. After liberation, he held the posts of member of Administration Council of Fudan University, Dean of Science and Technology College in Fudan University, Director of Qingdao Institute of Technology, m...
Professor Chen Jinmin
Chen Jinmin, also known as Chen Hongxun, from Chengguan, Tiantai, Zhejiang Province, was a famous mathematician and educator at his time. He graduated from Tiantai High School in 1915 and entered Department of Mathematics in Beijing Normal College (presently Beijing Normal University) in 1916. In 1919, when taking part in the May 4 Patriotic Movement, he was arrested and bailed out of jail by the President, so he renamed as Jinmin with the det...
Professor Pan Chengxiao
Pan Chengxiao, born in Wu County, Jiangsu Province, was a celebrated expert of Automobile and Internal Combustion Engine in China, one of the founders of China’s Internal Combustion Engine and Automotive Engineering Education and the National first-class professor. Pan Chengxiao was enrolled in the Department of Mechanics of Tangshan College of Railways and Mines in 1915 and went to the United States for further study in 1922. He studied in C...
Professor Lai Lian
Lai Lian, also known as Lai Jinghu, was born in 1900 in Yong Ding, Fujian Province. He graduated from Yali Junior College in 1919 and went to Illinois University in the United States for further study in Mechanical Engineering in the same year. In 1925, he went back to America and entered the Graduate School of Cornell University and achieved the Master’s Degree.
Professor Li Shutian
Li Shutian, also known as Li Gengyan, was born in Changli, Hebei Province. Dr. Li Shutian studied at the Preparatory school of Peiyang University in 1917, and was accepted by the Civil Engineering Department at Peiyang University in 1919. He received his B. E. with the highest grades in 1923, and was elected as a member of the Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society. He earned his Ph. D. at Cornell University, USA,at 1926, with Tsing Hua Oversea...
Professor Cai Yuanze
Cai Yuanze, from Deqing, Zhejiang Province, was a modern expert of mining and educator in China. He enrolled in Nan Yang Public School when he was fourteen, and later he studied in Peiyang University. In 1907, he went to the United States furthering his study in MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and gained his Master’s Degree of Mining. Afterwards, he entered Columbia University to study Accounting where he received another Master D...
Professor Mao Yisheng
Dr. Mao Yisheng, also known as Mao Tangchen, was born in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province. Dr. Mao received a Bachelor of Engineering from Tangshan Engineering College (later known as Tangshan Chiao Tung University, and now Southwest Jiaotong University) in 1916. After that, he went on to study at Cornell University with a Tsinghua Overseas Scholarship, and earned his Master's degree from Cornell University in1917, and his Ph.D. was granted by the ...