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Zhang Boling (traditional Chinese: 張伯苓; simplified Chinese: 张伯苓; pinyin: Zhāng Bólíng; Wade–Giles: Chang Po-ling) (April 5, 1876 in Tianjin – February 23, 1951 in Tianjin) was the founder of Nankai University and the Nankai system of schools.
Zhang Boling was born in Tianjin in 1876 during the last years of the Qing Dynasty. He was a cadet officer in the Beiyang Fleet, but he abandoned his training after the fleet was destroyed during the First Sino-Japanese War. He attended and graduated from Saint John's University in Shanghai.
After several years of teaching, Zhang Boling organized funding for a private college preparatory school, Nankai High School, in Tianjin in 1904. In 1917 he briefly studied at the Teachers College at Columbia University in the United States, where he was influenced by the American educator and reformer John Dewey. Afterwards, he expanded his school into a full university, Nankai University (simplified Chinese: 南开大学; traditional Chinese: 南開大學; pinyin: Nánkāi Dàxué), in 1919. Under Zhang Boling's leadership, Nankai University continued to expand for the next few years and became one of the most prestigious universities in China.
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