China Women's University
women's university in Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
China Women's University (simplified Chinese: 中华女子学院; traditional Chinese: 中華女子學院; pinyin: Zhōnghuá Nǚzǐ Xuéyuàn) is a women's university located in Chaoyang District of Beijing, China. It also has a campus in Changping District of Beijing.
It was founded in 1949 as a school for the cadres of All-China Women's Federation. The current name was adopted in 1995 and in 1996 it became a university. Currently it has about 160 teachers and 3,300 undergraduate students.
It used to have a branch campus in Shandong Province, which became Shandong Women's University in 2010.
External links
Website (in Chinese and English).
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “China Women's University” as women's university in Chaoyang District, Beijing, China. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as women's university in Chaoyang District, Beijing, China. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4569544. VIAF identifies the subject as 30147121647626391532. The Library of Congress control number is n2016186915. Authority coordinates are 39.994, 116.429. 1 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1949, 1995, 1996 and 2010.
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This entry incorporates text from “China Women's University” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.