Peking University (Changping Campus)

Peking University is a public research university in Beijing, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education of China. A successor of the older Guozijian Imperial College, it was established as the Imperial University of Peking in 1898 when it received its royal charter by the Guangxu Emperor.

Throughout its history, Peking University has had an important role "at the center of major intellectual movements" in China. After the fall of the Qing dynasty and the Xinhai Revolution, its status as a royal institution was abolished. From the early 1920s, the university became a center for China's emerging, progressive, and republican movements.