Soochow University (1900–1952)
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The original Soochow University was a university based in Suzhou and Shanghai in China, established in 1900. The university was registered in the state of Tennessee in the United States. After the Chinese Civil War, the university was disbanded by the People's Republic of China government in 1952, with its faculties amalgamated with parts of other universities to create various specialist universities in Suzhou and Shanghai. One of these specialist institutions, the Jiangsu Teacher's College (also known as Jiangsu Normal School), took over the main Suzhou campus of the old Soochow University, and in 1982 adopted the English name Soochow University (a different Chinese name to the original institution was adopted). A different university by the same name (both in English and Chinese) was set up by alumni in Taiwan in 1951.
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