Zhejiang University

Zhejiang University is called "Zhejiang University" for short, and is located in "paradise on earth" in Hangzhou. The predecessor was Qiushi college founded in 1897. It is one of the first new universities founded by the Chinese themselves. In 1928, it was named Zhejiang University. During the period of the ruling of the Kuomintang, the Zhejiang University, led by the old president of Zhu Kezhen, rose as one of the highest schools in the Republic of China. It was praised by Joseph Needham, the British historian of science as "Cambridge of the East", and ushered in the most glorious period of the century school history of Zhejiang University.