Wuhan University Campus 武汉大学校园

About Wuhan University Campus

The university traces its origin to the Ziqiang Xuetang, founded in 1893 on a memorial submitted by Zhang Zhidong, Viceroy of Huguang, and took the name National Wuhan University in 1928 as one of modern China's first national universities. By 1946 it taught across six colleges covering arts, law, science, engineering, agriculture and medicine, and in 2000 it merged with Wuhan University of Hydraulic and Electric Engineering, Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping and Hubei Medical University to form the present institution. Luojia Hill has a long roll of people associated with it: Zhou Enlai, Dong Biwu, Chen Tanqiu and Luo Ronghuan spent time here, and Gu Hongming, Zhu Kezhen, Li Siguang, Wen Yiduo, Yu Dafu, Ye Shengtao and Li Da taught or wrote here.

The campus wraps around the water of East Lake and climbs the hills behind it. Twenty-six of its early buildings, a palace-style group that combines Chinese and Western elements, are listed together as a national key cultural heritage site, which the State Council published in 2001 in the fifth national batch. The group was completely planned and designed as a single scheme and built within a relatively short period. Its stated design concept was to be practical, sturdy, economical and handsome under a traditional Chinese exterior, and its layout principles were axial symmetry, an ordered relation of main and subordinate parts, a central hall and tall blocks at the four corners. The university department responsible for cultural-heritage protection catalogues them individually, from the old National Wuhan University memorial gateway and the water tower to the Songqing Gymnasium and the former residences of Li Da, Guo Moruo and Zhou Enlai. This is a working university, so the protected buildings sit among teaching and residential blocks in daily use.

What to look for

• The old National Wuhan University memorial gateway
• The Songqing Gymnasium, one of the individually catalogued listed buildings
• The former student dining hall and student club, which the heritage list also names as the assembly hall
• The College of Arts and College of Law building and the College of Science building
• Banshan Lu and the former residences of Li Da, Guo Moruo and Zhou Enlai
• The campus water tower and the June the First memorial pavilion

Location & getting there

Getting to Wuhan University Campus

Choose a precise starting address and return transport stop. Access to individual buildings, performances or viewing platforms is separate from access to public streets.

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