East China Normal University (ECNU) is a comprehensive

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. It was formed in 1951 by the merger of the Great China University (est. 1924) and Kwang Hua University (est. 1925) and originated from the St. John's College founded in 1879. Established as a

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, it had an original mission to train teachers for secondary and higher education, but soon housed top-class researchers and developed into an elite research-intensive university. As of 2020, ECNU is organized into 22 schools, colleges, and institutes, located in two campuses throughout

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and Putuo. The university comprises 2 affiliated schools across the Shanghai metropolitan area:

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, Asia-Europe Business School in Zizhu International Education Park. It also maintains a National Forest Ecosystem Observation and Research Station in Tiantong National Forest Park,

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. ECNU is designated by the

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as a Class A Double First Class University. Sponsored by the national program “

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”, "

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" and "

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", the university is a frontrunner in the nation's research and innovation, and has been dubbed as the " Columbia of the East". The university also has strong ties with the

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and the

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. East China Normal University (ECNU) consistently features in the global top 400 research universities according to some of the most cited international university rankings such as ShanghaiRanking's Academic Ranking of World Universities, the

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, and the U.S. News & World Report Best Global University Ranking.

History

Origins

East China Normal University traces its roots to the formation of the St. John's College (later to become St. John's University) in 1879, and its heritage has had a deep influence in the development of Chinese modern higher education. In 1879, St. John's College was founded by William Jones Boone and

Joseph Schereschewsky Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky (pronounced skĕr-ĕs-kūs'kĭ ; 6 May 1831 – 15 October 1906), also known as Joseph Schereschewsky, was the Anglican Bishop of Shanghai, China, from 1877 to 1884. He founded St. John's University, Shanghai, ...

, Bishop of Shanghai, by combining two pre-existing Anglican colleges in Shanghai. In 1905, the college became St. John's University and was registered in Washington D.C. in the United States. It was the first institution to grant

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s in China, starting in 1907. After the

May Thirtieth Movement The May Thirtieth Movement () was a major labor and anti-imperialist movement during the middle-period of the Republic of China era. It began when the Shanghai Municipal Police opened fire on Chinese protesters in Shanghai's International Settle ...

in 1925, some academics and students left the St. John's University, later forming the private Kwang Hua University to support the

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and anti-

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movement during the middle period of the

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era. In 1924, after a

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at the

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in Fujian some academics fled north to Shanghai, where they established what became the Great China University (also known as Daxia University).

Establishment of the university

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, East China Normal University was officially formed in 1951 by the merger of the Great China University and the Kwang Hua University, and was joined at the same time by a number of faculty members from

Fudan University Fudan University () is a national public research university in Shanghai, China. Fudan is a member of the C9 League, Project 985, Project 211, and the Double First Class University identified by the Ministry of Education of China. It is als ...

Tongji University Tongji University () is a comprehensive public research university located in Shanghai. Established in 1907 by the German government together with German physicians in Shanghai, Tongji is one of the longest-standing, most selective, and most pr ...

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and East China PE Academy, making it the first national teacher training university of the People's Republic of China. This was done in part due to the government's desire to pool these institutions' resources into a single, stronger entity, cultivate talents with professional knowledge and promote the development of education in the country. In the 1950s, the Chinese government regrouped the country's higher education institutions in an attempt to build a Soviet-style system. Under this policy, most of faculties from

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Utopia University Utopia University, known in Chinese as Datong or Tatung University, was a private university in Shanghai. It was established in March 1912 by a group of former Tsinghua faculty members led by Hu Dunfu, and became one of the most reputable privat ...

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were incorporated into ECNU to form a comprehensive multi-disciplinary university. Some of the academics at the

and

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were also transferred to ECNU. In March 1959, ECNU was authenticated as one of the first 16

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in China, and this status was reaffirmed in 1978. From 1972 to 1980 (during the

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), five schools including ECNU were merged to create Shanghai Normal University, and in 1980 its original name was resumed. 1953年华东师范大学毕业证书

1980 to present

In June 1986, ECNU was selected to be one of the first 33 higher education institutions authorized, by the State Council, to establish their

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. In 1996, ECNU passed the prerequisites appraisal and became one of universities sponsored by the major national program "

". In 2006, the Ministry of Education and Shanghai Municipality signed into a partnership for co-sponsoring the development of the university, qualifying ECNU as a member of the "

" and facilitating ECNU's efforts and progress toward a comprehensive, research-oriented and internationalized world-class university. ECNU is now under the direct auspices of the Ministry of Education. The university sponsors or supervises publication of more than 20 academic journals and periodicals. The library collection exceeds 4,000,000 volumes. 25 primary or secondary schools are affiliated to the university.

International partnerships

The university has established strategic cooperative partnership with universities such as

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and its group in France, the

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and

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in USA,

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and

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in Japan, and the

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in Australia, the

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in the UK, etc. It has been carrying out academic exchanges with over 150 universities and institutions of Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan,

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, Canada, Australia,

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, and Russia, etc. ECNU plays host to a

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satellite campus, where 100 American college students study each semester. The university also runs an Online College of the Chinese language in collaboration with the National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (NOCFL), which is the first of its kind to be established in the country with over 5,800 students in 137 countries and regions. In 2008, it set up the NOCFL Study and Training Base for International Chinese Teachers. * In 2002 the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, the

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, and the

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set up a Master's-PhD programme at East China Normal University in Shanghai. An ENS campus is housed in the ECNU at the Aspiring Researchers Institute and at the Franco-Chinese Advanced Studies Institute. * In 2007, the EMLYON Business School opened the official EMLYON Asia Campus in the heart of the ECNU campus. * In 2008, the

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-ECNU Center for Comparative Culture was jointly funded by

and ECNU. * China's first Sino-American university –

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(NYU Shanghai) – was co-established by

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and ECNU and was approved by the Ministry of Education in early 2011.

Study China Programme

Along with several other Chinese universities, East China Normal University has hosted the United Kingdom (UK) government-funded Study China Programme for a number of years. In this programme, students from UK institutions spend one to two summer months studying

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and

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at a university in China. The programme is organised by the

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and is fully funded by

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bodies, such as the

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. Its purpose is to strengthen ties between UK university students and China, in particular as relatively few British students enroll in degrees in China. The programme has increased relations between ECNU and numerous leading UK universities.

Diplomats' Program

Sponsored by Shanghai Municipal Education Commission and Shanghai Foreign Affairs Office, the Diplomats' Program has been organized by ECNU since 2011. In this program, consular officials from over 20 countries spend two months during summer studying at East China Normal University.

Academics

At present the university is made up of 24 full-time schools and colleges, 2 unconventional colleges and 5 advanced research institutes, with 58 departments offering 79 undergraduate programs. The university also comprises 3 affiliated schools:

, Asia-Europe Business School and ECNU-

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School of Sino-American Innovative Education.

Full-time schools and colleges

* Faculty of Education * Faculty of Economics and Management * School of Humanities and Social Science * School of Social Development * School of Foreign Languages * International College of Chinese Studies * School of Psychology and Cognitive Science * Preschool and Special Education School * School of Sports and Health * School of Communication * School of Art * School of Design * School of Urban and Regional Science * School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences * School of Geographic Sciences * School of Life Sciences * School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering * School of Science and Engineering * School of Information Science and Technology * School of Computer Science and Software Engineering * International Teachers College of Chinese Language and Culture * Meng Xiancheng College (Teachers College) * School of Data Science and Engineering

Unconventional colleges

* College of Continuing Education * College of Distance Education

Advanced research institutes

* Institute of Estuary and Coastal Research * Institute for Advanced International and Regional Studies * Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies * Institute of Arts * Si-mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities The Software Engineering Institute is one of the 35 statewide pilot schools of software engineering granted by Ministry of Education in 2001; the International College of Chinese Studies is among the eight State Bases for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, certified by the Ministry of Education. ECNU is designated as one of the National

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and Basic

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Training and Research Bases in its disciplines of Chinese, History, Mathematics,

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Psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries betwe ...

and

Physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...

. ECNU's Business School was founded by the pioneer of China's Economics and Financing studies, Prof. Chen Biao Ru. Hence, the Business School of ECNU inherited the good tradition and enjoys top reputation in the economic and financial circle in China. The Ministry of Education's Training Center for Secondary School Principals at ECNU is a state base for the training of secondary school principals in

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and advanced studies of those in Hong Kong, Macau and

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. ECNU is the only university in China designated as a national training center for elite secondary school principals and enjoys the reputation as the "

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" for secondary school principals.

Research

The university is officially authorized to offer programs: * in two of the Primary Disciplines and five of the Sub-Disciplines, which are enlisted as National Key Disciplines; * in five of the disciplines, which are enlisted as Preparatory National Key Disciplines, * in 12 disciplines enlisted as Shanghai Key Disciplines.

Key laboratories

It has two State Key Laboratories, one National Field Observation and Research Station, six Key Labs or Engineering Centers, and six Key Research Bases for Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education. ECNU is authorized to offer 112 doctoral programs covering 14 Primary Disciplines, 178 master's programs in six specialties, i.e., Education,

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, Engineering,

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and

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, and to set up 14

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mobile research stations.

State key laboratories

*State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research *State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy

Key laboratories of provincial level and ministerial level

*Key Laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics, Ministry of Education *Key Laboratory of Geography-Information Science, Ministry of Education *Shanghai Institute of Brain Functional Genomics *Shanghai Key Laboratory of Regulatory BiologyEast China Normal University
, China. *Shanghai Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry and Green Chemical Process *Shanghai Key Laboratory of Urbanization and Ecological Restoration *Shanghai Key Laboratory of Trustworthy Computing

Key research bases in humanities and social science

*Institute of Curriculum and Instruction *Institute of Modern Chinese Thought and Culture *Center for Russian Studies *Center for the Study of Chinese Characters and Their Applications *Institute of Schooling Reform and Development *Center for Modern Chinese City Studies

Joint Research Centre

-ECNU Center for Comparative Culture *

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-ECNU Sino-Euro Culture Research Center *ECNU-

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Joint Research Core Group on China in Modern World *Intercultural Education and Communication Research Center (with

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)

Faculty and staff

ECNU has a faculty body of over 4,000, among whom there are 2000 full-time teachers (including over 1,200 professors or associate professors), 14 academicians of the

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(six of them are academicians of both academies), 11 members of the State Council Academic Appraisal Committee, eight specially hired professors or lecture professors for the Yangtze Scholar Award Program sponsored by the Ministry of Education, nine "state-level talents" chosen by the New-Century Talents Project, ten National Outstanding Youth Fund award winner, 80 specially hired professors or lecture professors for ECNU's Zijiang Scholar Award Program, and 105 tenured professors.

Campus

With campuses in

and Putuo District totalling an area of over 220 hectares.

North Zhongshan Road Campus (Putuo Campus)

The previous main campus was located in the Putuo District of Shanghai, formerly a campus of the Great China University. The campus is an enclosed campus of gardens, lawns, and historic buildings interspersed with modern facilities, in a location in downtown Shanghai. The university also provides transportation by shuttle bus to its new Minhang Campus. The campus still houses a variety of scientific research institutions, such as State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research and State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy. The university's athletic facilities include an outdoor track, outdoor basketball courts, indoor basketball courts, and indoor tennis and badminton courts.

Minhang Campus

The Minhang new campus is located in the Minhang District on the outskirts of metropolitan Shanghai. Most administrative and academic framework of the university and the majority of undergraduate and graduate students are situated at this campus, which is accompanied by the Minhang Campus of

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Rankings and reputation

ECNU has always been ranked the top two or three among the mainland Chinese universities in Education and Training according to the most recent QS World University Rankings by Subjects and Academic Ranking of World Universities by Subjects. In 2021, it was ranked 37th globally in the ''Times Higher Education Rankings by Subjects'' in "

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", which is historical strengths of the university as suggested in the name "

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". East China Normal graduates employability rankings placed at # 151-200 in the world in the 2017 QS Graduate Employability Rankings. Globally, East China Normal University is regarded as one of the most reputable

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by the ''

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'' where it ranked 151-175th. Global University Rankings of ECNU: * 2022

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: 201–300th globally * 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Global University Ranking: 321 globally * 2022

: 301–350th globally

Admission

East China Normal University is a highly selective university that only accepts students with a

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score at top 0.5%.

Notable people

Alumni

Writer

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(): Writer. * Dai Houying (): Writer. * Ge Fei (): Writer. Professor of literature at

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. *

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(穆时英): Writer.

Academics

Yu Lizhong Yu Lizhong (; born September 14, 1949) was the first Chancellor of New York University Shanghai, having held this position from 2012 to 2020. Yu was awarded the title of Chancellor Emeritus of NYU Shanghai upon his retirement. Yu Lizhong joined NY ...

: Chancellor of

. *Wang Xingyu (): President of

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(1994.03–2004.07). *Lu Shanzhen (): President of

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(1995–1999). *Wu Haishun (): President of Shanxi Normal University (2005.11-), *Jia Suotang (): President of

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(2012.08-). *Zhu Min (): Chair of the University Council of

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(2012.11-). *Yuan Zihuang (): Chair of the University Council of

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(2014.05-). *Ma Qinrong (): Chair of the University Council of

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(2004.07–2012.07). *Chen Dubin (): Chair of the University Council of

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(2007.03–2011.12). *Xi Nanhua (): Academician of the

. Vice-President of

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. *Song Daxiang (): Academician of the

. *Xue Yongqi (): Academician of the

. *Zhu Shiyao (): Academician of the

. *

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: Academician of the

. * Stephen Cheng (): Academician of the

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, United States. *Lu Bai (): Senior Investigator of

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. *

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, Georgia Health Sciences University. *

He Jifeng He Jifeng (, born August 1943) is a Chinese computer scientist. He Jifeng graduated from the mathematics department of Fudan University in 1965. From 1965 to 1985, he was an instructor at East China Normal University. During 1980–81, he was ...

: Academician of the

and academic at ECNU. *

Yuan Zhongyi Yuan Zhongyi (袁仲一; born 1932) is a Chinese archaeologist. He is best known for his work in the excavation and preservation of the Terracotta Army in Xi'an, China and is praised as "the father of the Terracotta Warriors". Yuan graduated fro ...

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, praised as "the father of the

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". *Mitchell Ho (): Senior Investigator,

In politics

*He Xian (): Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel of the P.R.China. *

Han Zheng Han Zheng (; born 22 April 1954) is a Chinese politician serving as the Senior Vice Premier of the State Council. He has also been leader of the Central Leading Group on Hong Kong and Macau Affairs since April 2018. From 2017 to 2022, he serve ...

(): Chinese politician, and a member of the

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, serving as First Vice Premier of the State Council since March 2018. * Chen Hao (): Governor of

Yunnan Yunnan , () is a landlocked Provinces of China, province in Southwest China, the southwest of the People's Republic of China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 48.3 million (as of 2018). The capital of the province is ...

, China. *

Yin Yicui Yin Yicui (; born January 1955) is a Chinese Communist Party politician who previously served as the Chairwoman of the Shanghai People's Congress from 2013 to 2020. Career Yin was born in Cangnan County, Zhejiang province. She began her career ...

(): Chairwoman of the Shanghai People's Congress.

In business and media

* Daniela Anahi Bessia (): Celebrity performer for the

China Central Television China Central Television (CCTV) is a Chinese state- and political party-owned broadcaster controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Its 50 different channels broadcast a variety of programing to more than one billion viewers in six lan ...

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, etc. , Culture and Entertainment. *Xue Peijian (): President of Shanghai Media and Entertainment Group. * Jason Jiang (): Founder of

Focus Media Focus Media Information Technology, formerly Focus Media Holding, is a Chinese company which operates out-of-home advertising in China which consist predominantly of digital signage screens and claims to own the country's largest Internet adv ...

. *

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(): Television host.

In sport

* Liu Xiang (): Gold medalist of 110-meter hurdles in the

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Study abroad

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: From

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, he did a study abroad program at ECNU. He was later convicted in the U.S. of attempting to commit espionage.

Notable faculty members

* Meng Xiancheng: Educator, the first president of East China Normal University. *

Li Linsi Li Linsi (; 1896 – 1970); birth name Li Jiaxiang (), was a modern Chinese educator, diplomat and scholar, who has been recognized as one of the key figures in modern Chinese cultural and diplomatic history. Hailed as China's Mahatma Gandhi, ...

: Educator and diplomat who has been recognized as one of the key figures in modern Chinese cultural and diplomatic history. *

Shen Zhihua __NOTOC__ Shen Zhihua (; born April 1950 in Beijing) is a professor of history at East China Normal University and adjunct professor at Peking University and Renmin University of China. Shen is an expert in the history of the Soviet Union, Sino-S ...

: Professor of history at ECNU, expert in the history of the

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, Sino-Soviet relations, and the

Cold War The Cold War is a term commonly used to refer to a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc. The term '' cold war'' is used because the ...

. *

Lü Simian Lü Simian (; February 27, 1884 – October 9, 1957) was a Chinese historian. He was a former professor and history department head at Kwang Hua University, a predecessor of the East China Normal University in Shanghai. Lü took the courtes ...

: Chinese historian, former professor of history at ECNU. *

Shi Zhecun Shi Zhecun (; December 3, 1905 – November 19, 2003) was a Chinese essayist, poet, short story writer, and translator in Shanghai during the 1930s. He was known for his poetry and essays, but is most known for his modernist short stories explorin ...

: Author, former professor of Chinese Language and Literature. *

Hu Huanyong Hu Huanyong (, November 20, 1901 – April 30, 1998) was a Chinese demographer and the founder of China's population geography. He was born in Yixing, Jiangsu Province. He studied literature, history, and geography at Nanjing Higher Normal School ...

: Demographer, forefather of modern Chinese demography and the founder of China's population geography. *

: Computer scientist, member of the

. *

Ghil'ad Zuckermann Ghil'ad Zuckermann ( he, גלעד צוקרמן, ; ) is an Israeli-born language revivalist and linguist who works in contact linguistics, lexicology and the study of language, culture and identity. Zuckermann is Professor of Linguistics and Ch ...

: Linguist, revivalist.

Alumni associations

*East China Normal University Alumni Association *East China Normal University Alumni Association in US *East China Normal University Alumni Association in North CaliforniaEast China Normal University Alumni Association in North California
China.

Addresses

* North Zhongshan Road (Putuo) Campus: 3663 North

Zhongshan Road Zhongshan, Chungshan, or Jhongshan () is a common name of Chinese roads, usually in honor of Sun Yat-sen, better known in Chinese as "Sun Chungshan (Zhongshan)", who is considered by many to be the "Father of Modern China". In Chinese cities, "Zho ...

, Shanghai 200062, P.R. China. * Minhang Campus: 500 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200241, P.R. China.

References

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Official website

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1980 to present

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Research

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Key laboratories of provincial level and ministerial level

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Joint Research Centre

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Minhang Campus

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