Kuo Ping-Wen
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Kuo Ping-Wen (Ping-Wen Kuo or Guo Bingwen, 郭秉文) (1879-1969), Chinese educator, considered to be the Father of the Chinese Modern University.
Kuo undertook graduate studies in Education under John Dewey at Columbia University. A few years after returning to China, he transformed the Nanjing Advanced Teachers' School into the first modern Chinese University (the National Southeastern University which was renamed National Central University in 1928 and Nanjing University in 1949), and his influence was extended widely in China and education circle.
Kuo Ping-Wen was elected for three times as the vice Chairman of the World Education Congress(世界教育會) and the Chairman of Asian division since 1923. The deposal of his presidential post in 1925 is a historical event and is a symbol that political forces intervene education and academe in China. It led to the President Change Unrest which lasted for three years.
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