Tsinghua University, formerly known as Tsinghua School, was founded in 19 1 1. At that time, it was part of the "return" of the United States. boxer indemnity established the preparatory school for studying in the United States. 19 12, Tsinghua school was renamed Tsinghua school (because the original site of the university was in the royal garden of Qing dynasty-"Tsinghua campus"). So I chose the name of the garden as the name of the university. 1925 set up undergraduate department to recruit four-year college students and set up research institute. 1928 was renamed as "National Tsinghua University", with four departments: literature, law, science and engineering.

1900, the Boxer Rebellion in China led to Eight-Nation Alliance's military intervention. 190 1 On the morning of September 7, 2008, Yi Kuangli and Li Hongzhang, plenipotentiaries of the Qing court, signed a final agreement with the representative of 1 1, and signed the Treaty of Xin and Chou, which pushed the Chinese nation into a tragic situation. As stipulated in the sixth paragraph of the Xin Chou Treaty, the Qing government compensated the six "injured countries" of Russia, Germany, France, Britain, the United States, Japan, Italy, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Sweden and Norway for military expenses and losses, totaling 982,238150 silver, from19000. Among them, Russia sent troops to Manchuria, which cost the most, so the income was the largest, which was 654.38+30.37 million. At that time, the population of China was about 450 million, and each China in boxer indemnity was estimated to be about one or two pieces of silver. Boxer indemnity, more than the sum of previous reparations, so far, China's financial and economic bankruptcy. In modern times, China paid 654.38+600 million taels of silver to imperialist countries. Of all the countries that launched the war of aggression against China, the Japanese plundered China's property the most. According to 190 1, the Qing government paid 450 million taels of silver to eight western countries, of which the United States deserved more than 32 million taels, equivalent to more than 24 million dollars. 1On March 6th, 906, the American missionary Ming Enpu suggested to President theodore roosevelt at the White House that boxer indemnity of the Qing government should be used to promote China's study abroad, and China students should be funded to study in the United States. Under the impetus of Ming Enpu and others, President Roosevelt proposed the Consultation Document on Running Schools in China to Congress, which was passed by Congress on May 25th. 1908. 1908, the United States officially announced that it would return half of "boxer indemnity" to China, amounting to more than1160,000 dollars, as a subsidy for students studying in the United States. In order to send students to study in the United States, the Qing government opened the Tsinghua Preparatory School in Beijing on 19 1 1, and 1924 changed its name to "Tsinghua University".