Hangzhou Normal University（杭州师范大学）is a public university in China, located in the capital of Zhejiang province, Hangzhou

Hangzhou

Hangzhou , formerly transliterated as Hangchow, is the capital and largest city of Zhejiang Province in Eastern China. Governed as a sub-provincial city, and as of 2010, its entire administrative division or prefecture had a registered population of 8.7 million people...

. It has four campuses--Xiasha(下沙), Man all the way(文一), Jade Hill(玉皇山), Gudang Bay(古荡湾). It is a comprehensive university famous for its teacher education and art education.

History

In 1905, the governor of Zhejiang

Zhejiang

Zhejiang is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China. The word Zhejiang was the old name of the Qiantang River, which passes through Hangzhou, the provincial capital...

 Province applied for the court to found a teaching school, aimed at training teachers for high schools and primary schools in the whole province. In 1908, the school was opened, named official secondary normal school(官立两级师范学堂). It was located in the original address of Zhejiang Gongyuan(贡院), with an area of 140 mu. ShenJunru was appointed as supervisor of the school in 1909.

In 1912, the Education Department of the Republic of China turned xuetang into school. It issued its own publications such as "baiyang"(白阳), "Zhejiang trendy"(浙江新潮), and set up clubs such as Music Rock Club(乐石社), Lakeside Poetry Club(湖畔诗社) and Mingyuan Club(明远学社). JingHengyi(经亨颐) was the president at that time. Under the leadership of JingHengyi, some art teachers, for example Li Shutong

Li Shutong

Hong Yi , born Li Shutong was a Chinese Buddhist monk, artist and art teacher. He also went by Wen Tao, Guang Hou, and Shu Tong, but was most commonly known by his Buddhist name, Hong Yi. He was a master painter, musician, dramatist, calligrapher, seal cutter, poet, and Buddhist monk...

(李叔同) and JiangDanshu(姜丹书), left invaluable treasure and contributed a lot to the following cause of art education.

When the anti-Japanese War broke in 1937， the school transferred to Jiande

Jiande

Jiande is a city district of Zhejiang, China. It is under the administration of the Hangzhou city....

(建德) and Lishui

Lishui

Lishui is a prefecture-level city in southwestern Zhejiang province of Eastern China. It borders Quzhou, Jinhua and Taizhou to the north, Wenzhou to the southeast, and the province of Fujian to the southwest...

(丽水), and moved back to Hangzhou when the war ended.

During the Great Cultural Revolution, the school changed from Hangzhou Normal University to Secondary section of Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou thirtheenth high school, and again Hangzhou Normal University. In 1978, the State Concil approved to found Hangzhou Normal College(杭州师范学院) and until March 2007 it was changed to Hangzhou Normal University.
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Discipline construction

There are 20 schools,for example, college of humanity, college of science, college of life and environmental science, college of information science and engineering, college of music, college of foreign languages, faculty of law, school of education. It has 54 undergraduate programs, which cover 22 first-class subjects.

Notable alumni

Ma Yun: CEO of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, which is China's biggest e-commerce company.

Lv Wei: country-level actress, famous singer

with the delegation to visit and perform in Japan, America, Australia, New Zealand, France etc.

performed in International West Lake Expo