St. John's University
People's Republic of China · Asia
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St. John's University (SJU) was a Christian university in Shanghai. It was founded in 1879 by American missionaries.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Communist government closed the university in 1952. Most of its faculty members, students and library collections were transferred to East China Normal University or moved to Taiwan, where the university was reestablished as St. John's University, Taipei. A postwar board of governors moved the mainland assets of the university to Hong Kong, founding Chung Chi College, a part of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Its former campus at Shanghai is now the urban campus of the East China University of Political Science and Law.
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