Wuhan University
university in Wuhan, China
Wuhan University (WHU) is a public university in Wuhan, Hubei, China. It is administered and funded by the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 985, Project 211, and Double First-Class Construction.
History
In 1926, National Wuchang University, National Wuchang University of Commerce, Hubei Provincial Medical University, Hubei Provincial University of Legislation, Hubei Provincial University of Liberal Arts, and the private Wuchang Zhonghua University were merged into National Wuchang Sun Yat-sen University (also known as National Second Sun Yat-sen University).
The school had an undergraduate department and 6 subjects including liberal arts, science, law, economics, medicine, and preparatory courses, 17 departments, and 2 institutes.
In 1928, the Nanjing National Government officially established the National Wuhan University based on the former National Wuchang Sun Yat-sen University, with four colleges: liberal arts, law, science, and engineering.
In 1949, National Wuhan University was taken over by the Communist Party and renamed Wuhan University.
The School of Information Management at Wuhan University signed a cooperation agreement with the Royal School of Library and Information Science in Denmark in 2009.
Wuhan University collaborated with Duke University in the United States and the city of Kunshan to establish Duke Kunshan University in 2013. The first undergraduates were admitted in 2018, and the agreement between Wuhan and Duke is due to expire in 2028.
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Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1108197. VIAF identifies the subject as 126605855. The Library of Congress control number is n80152990. Authority coordinates are 30.541, 114.361. 1 of 7 selected statements include explicit references; 3 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1926, 1928, 1949 and 2009.
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