Shanghai University

Shanghai University is a public research university located in Shanghai. Shanghai University is one of the nation's leading research universities. The 555-acre main Baoshan campus is situated in the north of Shanghai, and there are two other campuses in Jiading and Jing'an.

Jointly founded by the Nationalists and the Communists in 1922, the original cause for the Shanghai University was to nurture leaders for the Chinese revolution. The university contributed a group of influential people to the cause of Chinese liberation and development. The university got discontinued in 1927 as a consequence of the Shanghai Massacre, in which the Nationalists purged all communist-related organizations.