| High School attached to Tsinghua University | |||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 清華大學附屬中學 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 清华大学附属中学 | ||||||
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| The High School Attached to Tsinghua University 清华大学附属中学 |
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自强不息, 厚德载物
Self-discipline and Social Commitment |
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| Tsinghua University Campus Beijing, China |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 1915 |
| Principal | Dianjun Wang (王殿军) |
| Enrollment | 2,500 |
| Campus | Urban, 78,800 sq m |
| Affiliations | Tsinghua University |
| Website | www.qhfz.edu.cn |
The High School Attached to Tsinghua University (simplified Chinese: 清华大学附属中学; traditional Chinese: 清華大學附屬中學; pinyin: Qīnghuá Dàxué Fùshŭ Zhōngxué), or Tsinghua High School for short (simplified Chinese: 清华附中; traditional Chinese: 清華附中; pinyin: Qīnghuá Fùzhōng), is one of the most prestigious and historically-significant high schools in China, located in Beijing.
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The current English translation of its name is not really accurate. To avoid confusion, Pinyin instead of any literal translation of it will be used whenever appropriate.
In china, Zhongxue (simplified Chinese: 中学; traditional Chinese: 中學; pinyin: Zhōngxué) is a general term that could refer to either a high school (高中) where students are preparing for college, or a middle school (初中) to which pupils attend after elementary school, or a larger school that combined both, equivalent to the secondary school in some countries. And Fushu Zhongxue or Fuzhong nowadays is a Zhongxue that operates as a subdivision of a larger entity such as a university or a large factory, and usually affiliated to is the term used to describe the relationship between them.
The relatively long history of Qinghua Fuzhong is the primary factor that make a literal translation of its name difficult:
See the history section for details.
Based on its current status, a more precise translation should be 'The secondary school affiliated to Tsinghua University'.
The Qinghua Fuzhong was once named Cheng Zhi School (simplified Chinese: 成志学校; traditional Chinese: 成志學校; pinyin: Chéngzhì Xuéxiào) when it is founded in 1915. At that time, it consists only of elementary grades and a kindergarten. In 1939, the Cheng Zhi school, together with Tsinghua University, moved to Kunming following the Japanese invasion and became part of the joint secondary school of the National Southwestern Associated University. The school moved back to Beijing in 1946 after the war and became a combined middle/elementary school.[1]
In 1952, the middle school part of Cheng Zhi and the middle school affiliated to Yenching University merged together and formed the Tsinghua University Fushe Zhongxue (清华大学附设中学, Zhongxue as an add-on to Tsinghua University). This could be the reason why the English translation of Qinghua Fuzhong use the term attach to instead of the more widely used affiliated to. In 1958, the preparatory school established in 1951 intended to prepare cadre workers and farmers for education in the university, got merged into the Fushe Zhongxue. In 1960, Tsinghua University backed a further expansion of Qinghua Fuzhong, for the first time established its high-school section, and giving its current name.
The reason why Tsinghua invested in and reorganized Qinghua Fuzhong comes from the University's own problem with its incoming students: many of them excelled in nothing but exams. To solve this problem, Tsinghua decided to prepare its incoming students themselves. While other Zhongxues in Beijing are administered by the local government, Tsinghua University directly appoints the headmaster and other keynote figures of Qinghua Fuzhong and back it with firm financial support. Students are freed from repetitive training of exam questions, instead, they are encouraged to learn foreign language, participate in sports, and various kinds of art performances. On top of that, born and bred in families of University faculty members and high-level government officials, most of the students in Qinghua Fuzhong already comes with good education.[2] As expected, Qinghua Fuzhong rocked everybody after as little as 6 years.
Boom and Bust. Well-educated youngsters are often smart egoist. They are extremely productive, and equally destructive. After Mao Zedong clearly draw the line between bourgeois and proletarian, the war between children of university faculties and those of Party officials begins. Debates became quarrels and quickly evolves to a fight with fists, and the split goes wider and wider. On May.29th, 1966, the first Red Guard organization is established among Qinghua Fuzhong students who feels ill-treated by the school's during its effort to stop the war. [3] On Jun.2th, the first 'big-character poster' signed by 'Red Guard' is posted on the classroom building, declares that they will fight with 'mid-age bourgeois' until they are destroyed. Apparently the mid-age bourgeois refers to the school's administration, which is appointed by the University. In mid June, Red Guards starts to publicly criticize and denounce school headmaster and other faculties members. The Red Guards finally took control of the school in August. By the end of September, with nothing but a bunch of crazy youngsters left.
In 1978, the student came back after the 'Down to the countryside movement'. In order to accommodate them, Qinghua Fuzhong Erbu (清华附中二部), a new school later renamed to Qinghua Er Fuzhong (Second Zhongxue affiliated to Tsinghua) is founded, offering only the middle school grades. In 1984, the middle school section from Qinghua Fuzhong is relocated into Qinghua Er Fuzhong, making Qinghua Fuzhong a dedicated high school.
15 years later, in 1999, the Er Fuzhong moved in to newly-completed buildings inside the campus of Qinghua Fuzhong. In 2003, the registration of Qinghua Er Fuzhong is cancelled and merged back into Qinghua Fuzhong. But by then Qinghua Fuzhong is already well-known as the 'high school' of Tsinghua, therefore the translation remained in use despite the fact it has now had a middle school included.
The school is located in the northern part of picturesque Tsinghua University campus, close to the famous Yuan Ming Yuan palace in the west. The laboratories, teaching devices, the library and the swimming pool of the university are always ready to serve the pupils. Over half the pupils of the school live on the campus.
Many famous scholars worked in the school such as scientists Prof. Zhou Peiyuan and Qian Weichang, philosopher Prof. Feng Youlan, literati Mr. Zhu Ziqing and language educationist Mr. Zhang Xiong etc. For years, well-known scholars and academicians from Tsinghua University, Peking University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences and other institutions of higher learning have been invited to the school to give lectures and instructions both in the classroom and outside it.
A group of professors from Tsinghua University are teaching the pupils of “senior middle school science experimental class” and “John Ma athletic class” of the school. Senior teachers have constituted over 50% of the total number in our school.
Some of the school's teachers have been commended by the Education Ministry, Beijing municipal government, Haidian District authority and Tsinghua University. Mr. Xu Zhong-yuan, the vice-principal, won the title of outstanding teacher of Beijing municipality. Ms. Zhou Jie, another vice-principal has the title of outstanding moral education worker of Beijing municipality. Mr. Xie Juzhao, Ms. Han Qingying, Mr. Li Xueshen, and Ms. Li Zeng-ling are commended as excellent teachers in charge of a class in Beijing municipality awarded “Forbidden Cup”.
Since 1983, the High School graduates have entered key institutes of higher learning every year, and 100% of the pupils entered college, among them, more than 1000 graduates entered Tsinghua University and Peking University. Since 1988, at the international middle school pupils' "Olympic" competitions of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and information science, 16 students of the school have altogether won 18 prize medals, among them, 13 are gold ones. At the international and national games of middle school students', students of the school have won 36 medals, among them, 7 are gold medals and 21 are silver medals. 14 students of the school have won the gold-sail and silver-sail prize of Beijing municipality successively.
The honor titles our school won are as follows:
"The advanced school of moral education" (1988) and “the nationwide advanced school of experimental training after school” (1993) entitled by the Ministry of National Education.
“The advanced school achieving remarkable successes in an all-round way teaching and training the top pupils who do well in some of the courses” (1993) and “the model school coming up to the demanded standards of physical education” (1996) entitled by Beijing municipality.
“The advanced school of the popularization of experiment teaching”(1996) and “the experimental school of education modernization project” (1996) entitled by Haidian District educational authority.
From August 3 - August 8, 2005, Tsinghua High was invited to join the Hong Kong International Model United Nations (HKIMUN2005), together with four other mainland China high schools. Its two delegations were awarded "Best delegation" and "Best delegation mention" respectively.