Before the founding of New China, there were 13 Christian universities in China, namely yenching university, cheeloo university, Soochow University, St. John's University, Zhijiang University, West China Union University, Huazhong University, Jinling University, Fujian Christian University, South China Women's College of Arts and Sciences, Jinling Women's College of Arts and Sciences, Hujiang University and Lingnan University. Yenching university's predecessor was three missionary schools founded by American and British churches in Beijing:

1, Peking University: 1889 was founded by the American-Israeli-American Association, formerly known as Chongnei Li Huai College, and its president was Dr. hiram Harrison Lorry. Located in Chongwenmen Chuanban Hutong (now Huiwen Middle School).

2. North China United Women's College: founded in 1864, formerly known as Beiman Girls' School, located in Fujiadao Hutong, Dongtong, dengshikou (later renamed Beiman Girls' Middle School).

3. North China United College: founded in 1867, formerly known as the congregational Liuhe College. David Sheffield is the headmaster.

19 16 The American-Israeli-American Association, the Congregation and the Presbyterian Church in North America will merge three missionary schools in London, England, with Peking University as the school name and Si Tuleideng as the principal.

192 1 year, he bought the garden given by the former prince of the Qing dynasty in the western suburbs of Beijing, and hired architect Murphy to make a master plan, thus building the largest, highest quality and most beautiful campus in modern China.

1926 officially moved. After the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Japanese army closed the school.

Yenching university Temporary School was established in Chengdu, Sichuan from 65438 to 0942. The principal is Kong Xiangxi and the acting principal is Mei Yibao. 1945, the school resumed classes at the original site in Beiping. 1946, the teachers and students of Chengdu Temporary School were sent back to start an engineering school. 195 1, the school was changed to national. Universities directly separated from yenching university are: China University of Political Science and Law (yenching university Law School), Central University of Finance and Economics (yenching university Economics Department) and Minzu University of China (yenching university History Department). Some were spun off by yenching university, such as Tsinghua University Institute of Technology.

1950 12. The 65th government meeting in the State Council adopted a decision: cultural and educational relief institutions and religious groups receiving subsidies from the United States.

195 1 year 1 month1day, the Ministry of Education made specific arrangements according to the decision of the State Council, and held some meetings to emphasize the policy that foreigners are not allowed to set up schools in China in new China. The first batch of 1 1 schools were confirmed as public, including yenching university and Union Medical College. China people run their own businesses and keep them private. The government subsidizes them like Hujiang University and Soochow University.

1952, adjustment of colleges and universities. Ethnology, Sociology, Chinese Department (national language) and History Department were merged into the Law School of the Central University for Nationalities (now the Central University for Nationalities) and into the Beijing Institute of Political Science and Law (now China University of Political Science and Law). The Department of Economics merged into the Central University of Finance and Economics (now the Central University of Finance and Economics), and the Department of Engineering merged into Tsinghua University. Arts and sciences merged into Peking University, and Peking University moved to the original yenching university campus "Yanyuan". After the founding of New China, the central government plans to accept schools at all levels under Kuomintang rule and schools run by foreigners. Make education adapt to the needs of the new China construction and revolution as soon as possible, and gradually accept some.

1993, yenching university Beijing Alumni Association and Peking University Branch (now College of Applied Arts and Sciences, Beijing Union University) jointly established Yanjing Research Institute. Yenching university was established after the merger of Huiwen University. 1952 split. Some departments of arts and sciences merged into Peking University, and engineering merged into Tsinghua. At that time, due to the large-scale "adjustment of departments", in addition to departments, personnel were also greatly adjusted, involving almost all colleges and universities in the country. Some of these adjustments began before 1952. At this time, all the schools with the original church background were closed, and the departments and personnel were split to others.

Strictly speaking, the history of yenching university and other China missionary schools officially ended in 1952. There are three mainstream opinions about the inheritance of yenching university:

(1) Because yenching university's church spirit and school-building spirit have not been directly inherited by other universities, it is considered that yenching university has no successor.

(2) Peking University, who accepted the Department of Arts and Sciences in yenching university, and Tsinghua University, who accepted the Department of Engineering, assumed yenching university's later responsibilities in terms of teachers and students, and indirectly absorbed yenching university's academic thoughts, so both schools are inheritors of yenching university.

(3) Peking University absorbed most of the talents from yenching university, and moved to Yanyuan at the same time because of the merger of schools, which inherited the role of yenching university to some extent in terms of personnel and facilities (including libraries), so Peking University can be called the inheritor of yenching university to some extent.