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Zunyi Medical University

university in Zunyi, China

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ8075310 ↗
Source-derived summary

Zunyi Medical University (Chinese: 遵义医学院; pinyin: Zūn yì yī xué yuàn) is a medical university in Zunyi, Guizhou province of the People's Republic of China.

History

The college was founded in 1947 as the Dalian Medical College. The college was relocated from Dalian to Zunyi and renamed Zunyi Medical University in 1969.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Zunyi Medical University” as university in Zunyi, China. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Zunyi, Medical and University.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1947, 1969—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1947. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Zunyi, Medical and University providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Zunyi Medical University”, the useful work is to connect “university in Zunyi, China” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q8075310. VIAF identifies the subject as 152742789. The Library of Congress control number is no95038260. Authority coordinates are 27.725, 107.066. 4 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1947 and 1969.

Critical limits

Later summaries often reconcile disputed chronology or motive more neatly than the contemporary record permits. 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 “Zunyi Medical University”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Zunyi Medical University primary sources, Zunyi Medical University archive and Zunyi 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 “Zunyi Medical University”?
  2. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
  3. What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
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This entry incorporates text from “Zunyi Medical 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.