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Communication University of Zhejiang

public national university in Hangzhou, China

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ11148503 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Communication University of Zhejiang (CUZ) is a public college in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. It is affiliated with Zhejiang Provincial People's Government, and co-funded by the National Radio and Television Administration and the Province of Zhejiang.

The CUZ has two campuses, one in Xiasha Subdistrict, Hangzhou, and one in Wuzhen, Tongxiang, together covering an area of 87 hectares with a total construction area of 642,000 square meters. It has 14 colleges/schools, with more than 13,700 undergraduate students, 740 graduate students, more than 200 international students, and about 1,400 faculty and staff.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Communication University of Zhejiang” is public national university in Hangzhou, China. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Communication, University and Zhejiang, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current 91-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1978. For this dossier, Communication, University and Zhejiang is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “public national university in Hangzhou, China” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11148503. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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 “Communication University of Zhejiang”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Communication University of Zhejiang primary sources, Communication University of Zhejiang archive and Communication 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 “Communication University of Zhejiang”?
  2. What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
  3. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Communication University of Zhejiang” 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.