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Hwa Nan College
华南女子大学
Other name
Women's College of South China
Typewomen's
Active1908–1951
Religious affiliation
The Methodist Episcopal Church
ChairmanDr James W. Bashford
PrincipalLydia A Trimble
Location
Cangqian Mountain, Fuzhou, Fujian, China
Campus6.6 acres (2.7 ha)
LanguageEnglish

Hwa Nan College, or Women's College of South China, was a Christian institution of higher education founded by The Methodist Episcopal Church (Chinese: 美以美会, known as卫理公会 after 1939). [1]It is located on the mountainside of Cangqian Mountain (Chinese: 仓前山), now Cangshan District(Chinese: 仓山区), Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, China. From 1938 to 1946, the college was temporarily relocated to Nanping City, due to Second Sino-Japanese War.[2] Now the college belongs to the Cangshan Campus of Fujian Normal University (Chinese: 福建师范大学).[3]

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History

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Lydia A. Trimble - the first principal of Hwa Nan College
James W. Bashford - the first resident bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church in China

In May 1904, at the Annual Meeting of The Methodist Episcopal Church held in Los Angeles, Lydia A Trimble (Chinese name: 程吕底亚）of the Woman's Missionary Society called for the establishment of a women's university in Fuzhou. This application was approved partly by the conference, a women's preparatory school was established without a certain place. A committee was formed by Lydia A Trimble and two other women missionaries, with a bishop Dr James W. Bashford (Chinese name: 柏锡福), who had served as president of Ohio Wesleyan University for many years, as the first chairman of the College Board of Directors.[4][5]

In May 1905, the Methodist Episcopal Church Congress in Shanghai decided to establish the Foochow College Preparatory of Foochow Woman's College. After two years, Anglo-Chinese Girls' School (Chinese: 华英女子学堂) was established in Fuzhou. In January 1908, the school was finally being able to start teaching, and Lydia A Trimble was appointed as its first headmaster. In 1916, the school was renamed Hwa Nan College (Chinese: 华南女子大学). In 1922, the college was admitted by University of the State of New York with a provisional charter.[1] In 1933, the college changed its name to Woman's College Of South China (Chinese: 华南女子文理学院), which was approved by the Chinese Ministry of Education the following year. In 1935, the college became one of thirteen Christian high education colleges and universities in China, and was charged by the Board of Trustees in America (Chinese: 美国托事部). The college was moved to Nanping City in June 1938 due to Second Sino-Japanese War, and moved back to Fuzhou City in 1946.[2] The college was abolished in April 1951, as merged with Fukien Christian University to form Fuzhou University.[6]

Principals

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In 1938, 50th Anniv. of Ex-Pres. Lydia Trimble's arrival in China, Lucy Wang and Lydia Trimble sit fourth and fifth from the left.

Hua Ying Women's College

  • 1908—1916 Lydia A. Trimble

Hwa Nan College

  • 1916—1925 Lydia A. Trimble
  • 1925—1927 Dr Ida Belle Lewi （Chinese name: 卢爱德）
  • 1928—1933 Lucy C. Wang （Chinese name: 王世静）[7]

The Woman's College Of South China

  • 1933—1951 Lucy C. Wang

Founding

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The founding of building and teaching activities of Hwa Nan College mainly came from Church grants and private donations. Including the Methodist Episcopal Church and Woman's Missionary Society, believers (Mr J. D. Payne, Mrs Laura Granson and others) and past alumni.[8]

Campus

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Mallan Payne Hall
Traditional Chinese彭氏楼
Simplified Chinese彭氏樓
Literal meaningnamed after a donor
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyinpéng shì lóu
Granson Hall
Traditional Chinese谷氏楼
Simplified Chinese穀氏樓
Literal meaningnamed after a donor
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyingǔ shì lóu
Lydla A. Trlmble Hall
Traditional Chinese程氏楼
Simplified Chinese程氏樓
Literal meaningnamed after its first principal
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyinchéng shì lóu

Hwa Nan College covers an area of about 40 mu (Chinese: 亩, 1 mu is approximately equal to 666.67 square meters). The main buildings and places include Mallan Payne Hall (Chinese: 彭氏楼), Granson Hall (Chinese: 谷氏楼) and Lydla A. Trlmble Hall (Chinese: 程氏楼), as well as libraries, science museums, auditoriums, tennis courts, basketball courts, etc. In January 2007, the college site was listed as the fourth batch of the Cultural relics protection unit of Cangshan District. In January 2013, the college site was listed as the eighth batch of the Cultural relics protection unit of Fujian.[1]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Hwa Nan College". The Ricci Roundtable. Archived from the original on 24 September 2014. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
  2. ^ a b Associated Boards of Christian Colleges in China. Hwa Nan College: Foochow and Nanping, Fukien, China. New York: Associated Boards for Christian Colleges in China, 1942. OCLC 148120867
  3. ^ "Fujian Normal University: A Profile". Fujian Normal University. 2019-05-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ^ Wallace, Ethel (1956). Hwa Nan College: The Woman's College of South China (1st ed.). New York: United Board for Christian Colleges in China. pp. 5–10.
  5. ^ "James Whitford Bashford". The United Methodist Church. Retrieved 2023-07-07.
  6. ^ Zhu, Feng (2001). Christianity and Women's Higher Education in Modern China: A Comparative Study of Jinling Women's University and South China Women's University (in Chinese). Fuzhou: Fujian Education Press. ISBN 9787533433987.
  7. ^ House, Christie (2023-07-06). "Hwa Nan University - General Board of Global Ministries of The United Methodist Church". The United Methodist Church.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ^ Zhu, yongchun (2017). History of Modern Architecture in Fuzhou (in Chinese) (1st ed.). Beijing: Science Press. pp. 165–166. ISBN 9787030548139.

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