Fudan University

Fudan University is a national public university in Shanghai, China. The university is affiliated with the Ministry of Education, and is co-sponsored by the ministry and Shanghai City. The university is part of Project 985, Project 211, and the Double First Class University Plan. Fudan has five undergraduate colleges – Zhide, Tengfei, Keqing, Renzhong, and Xide. The university has four campuses in Shanghai – Handan, Fenglin, Zhangjiang, and Jiangwan – which share the same central administration. It also has 17 affiliated hospitals. The university is a member of the C9 League. History Fudan University, then romanized as Fuh Tan, was founded as Fudan Public School in 1905, by Ma Xiangbo, SJ, who had resigned from Aurora University. The two Chinese characters Fu (, means "again") and Dan (, means "morning", "light" ), meaning both "(heavenly light shines) day after day" and "Aurora Revived", were chosen by Ma on the recommendation of Yu You-jen, from the Confucian Classic Shangshu Dazhuan: "Itinerant as the twilight, sun glows and moon luminesces". The university motto "Scientia et studium, quaestio et cogitatio" comes from Analects Book 19.6, which means "rich in knowledge and tenacious of purposes, inquiring with earnestness and reflecting with self-practice". In 1911, during the Xinhai Revolution, the college was occupied as headquarters of the Guangfu Army and closed down for almost one year.