The Main Gate of Shanghai Jiaotong University
2 min readmunications under the Beiyang warlord government, pro-under the slogan of”Taking Nanyang as its Hard Core”.He College, Beijing College of Railroad Management as Ye as president, these five schools together became theical College became the University of Communica-edits name to Nan Yang University of the Communicati affiliated tothung (Jiaotong) University of the Communications affilia iction of the Ministry of Railways; its name was changed once again to National Chiao Tung University, a name it continued to use until 1949. doors and bluish a simple engineering hool developed into lies, is hailed a The Gate of Shanghai Jiaotong University, 200 a handful of professors and students stayed on at the She Shanghai campus.throughout the eight years of the war from 1937 to 1945, it persevered and continued to develop. After the founding hinai of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the school underwent another change, creating Soviet-styled, specialized building. In 1956, the gov.aot to Xi’an, and in 1959 a separate Xi’an Jiaotong lian institution.dies as John Calvin Ferguson, First Executive Supervisor of Nanyang Public School Nanyang Public School’s two oldest buildings, its Middle College and Upper College, were completed successively in 1899-1900, with design and construction personally supervised by John Ferguson, an American who first came to China as miss onary in 1887. The Middle College is a three-story brick building built in one year at a cost of nearly 50,000 silver dollars and covered a construction area or 4, 950 square meters. The Upper College was a renaissance are style, three-story brick building, bat a cost of 83,000 silver dollars and covered a construction area of 6, 000 square meters. At the time of their completion, they wered the two most mpressive buildings among all he schools in the city. In 1953, the Upper College was demolished and replaced by a new building in its place. The Middle College re-mains to this day.
