Qualla: Tsin Ku University https://qualla.com/tsin-ku-university en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:38 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/g/q/tsin-ku-university-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Tsin Ku University https://qualla.com/tsin-ku-university Tsin Ku University: Introduction https://qualla.com/tsin-ku-university/ Photo credit TJArchi-Studio, CC BY-SA 2.0. The university no longer exists, but its descendants are everywhere. Tianjin University's School of Architecture, Nankai University's economics and business programs, Hebei University, Tianjin Foreign Studies University, and Tianjin University of Finance and Economics all trace some part of their lineage to a single institution: Tsin Ku University, a French Jesuit school that operated in Tianjin for just three decades before it was dissolved in 1952. Founded in 1921 as a Catholic university at the junction of the German and British Concessions, it became one of the earliest institutions in modern China to teach architecture, and its motto was startlingly direct for a religious school: 'Seek truth from facts.'

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/g/q/tsin-ku-university-wp/wwgq-tsin-ku-university-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Tsin Ku University: Sixty Years of Failed Attempts https://qualla.com/tsin-ku-university/ Photo credit ScareCriterion12, CC BY-SA 3.0. The French had been trying to build a university in Tianjin since the 1860s. In 1861, the secretary of the French Legation instructed the Jesuits to establish a school there, but the Lazarists, who already had a presence in the city, resisted. The plan was shelved. In 1909, a Jes...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/g/q/tsin-ku-university-wp/wwgq-tsin-ku-university-sixty-years-of-failed-attempts.mp3 0:06 2 full Tsin Ku University: Renaissance on the Concession Border https://qualla.com/tsin-ku-university/ Photo credit AnonymousUnknown author, Public domain. The campus architecture reflected its hybrid origins. Situated near the boundary of the British Concession, the buildings adopted the European classical style prevalent in the surrounding treaty-port district. The main teaching building, completed in 1926, was considered a replic...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/g/q/tsin-ku-university-wp/wwgq-tsin-ku-university-renaissance-on-the-concession-border.mp3 0:06 3 full Tsin Ku University: Architecture and the Art of Dissolution https://qualla.com/tsin-ku-university/ Photo credit AnonymousUnknown author, Public domain. By 1937, the school had added an architecture department under Chen Yanzhong, making it one of the first institutions in China to offer formal architectural education. The school grew through the war years, attracting displaced scholars from Yenching University and Nankai Univers...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/g/q/tsin-ku-university-wp/wwgq-tsin-ku-university-architecture-and-the-art-of-dissolution.mp3 0:06 4 full Tsin Ku University: The Ghost in Six Institutions https://qualla.com/tsin-ku-university/ Photo credit AnonymousUnknown author, Public domain. Vice Premier Yao Yilin counted himself among the alumni. So did physicist Yuan Jialiu. Over its brief life, the school graduated just over a thousand students, but its influence radiated outward through the institutions that absorbed its people and its programs. The entrance exam...

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