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Guizhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

university in China

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ5616925 ↗
Source-derived summary

Guizhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (simplified Chinese: 贵州中医药大学; traditional Chinese: 貴州中醫藥大學; pinyin: guì zhōu zhōng yī yào dà xué) is a public university based in Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou province in China.

History

The university was established in 1965 as the Guiyang College of Traditional Chinese Medicine. It covers 45.65 acres (184,700 m2) divided among two campuses, the North Campus and South Campus. In 2018, it was renamed Guizhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Administration

Schools and departments

The university is organised into twelve departments and schools.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Guizhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine” as university in China. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1965, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1965. The account is most persuasive where Guizhou, University and Traditional can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as university in China. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5616925. VIAF identifies the subject as 138362038. The Library of Congress control number is n79062591. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1965 and 2018.

Critical limits

Institutional narratives can privilege the records that survived while minimizing voices that were never formally collected. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

Best used for
  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Guizhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Guizhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine primary sources, Guizhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine archive and Guizhou research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Guizhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine”?
  2. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
  3. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
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This entry incorporates text from “Guizhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine” 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.