Administrators
(Before the establishment of the PRC)

Presidents
(After the Founding of the People's Republic of China)

ZHANG, Zhi-rang (1893-1978), with Ji-long as his self-selected courtesy name, was a native of Changzhou, Jiangsu Province. Having graduated from the Law Department of Columbia University in 1920, he returned to China and served as a judicial adviser and judge for the Northern Warlords' government, and later a judge of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nationalist Government at Wuhan. After the April 12th Incident against the Chinese Communists broke out, he refused to hold an official position in the KMT government at Nanjing and returned to Shanghai to enter the bar, taking an active part in rescuing the imprisoned members of the Communist Party of China and other revolutionaries. After the seven eminent progressive members of the Parliament were arrested in 1936, he served as the chief defending lawyer for them. He was appointed as director for the Fudan University's Committee of School Affairs after the 1949 liberation. He served as a vice-president of the Supreme People's Court, a member of the committees of Bill and of Legal Institutions of the National People's Congress, and a member of the Standing Committee of the 5th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.



CHEN, Wang-dao (1891-1977), originally named Chen Can-yi, with Fo-tu and Xue-fan as his pen names, was a native of Yiwu, Zhejiang Province. In his early years, he went to Japan for studies and obtained his bachelor's degree from the Law Department of Chuo University. After returning to China, he played an active role in promoting the New Culture Movement. He translated and published the first complete Chinese version of The Communist Manifesto as an editor of the journal New Youth. He was among the few who initiated the Communist Party of China in Shanghai. Chen attended the first National Congress of the CPC in July 1921, and was elected to be the secretary for the Shanghai Committee. He began to teach at Fudan University in 1927 and was elected a member of the standing committee of 4th National People's Congress, a member of the standing committee of the 3rd and the 4th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a vice-president of the 3rd Central Committee of the China Democratic League. In 1955, he was elected as a member of the Committee of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and was engaged for the rest of his life in improving modern Chinese and the research and education of the great language. As a renowned scholar, Chen developed a scientific system of studying Chinese rhetoric and made great achievements in philosophy, ethics, literature theory, and aesthetics. He was the editor in chief of Ci Hai (literally "the sea of words", a most famous encyclopedia in contemporary China), and the author of Introduction to Rhetoric and A Brief Introduction to Syntax.


SU, Bu-qing (1902-2003), a native of Pingyang of Zhejiang Province, graduated from the Department of Mathematics of Tohoku Imperial University, Japan in 1927. Then he studied at the research institute of the university until he obtained his Ph.D. degree. After returning home, he was invited to work at the Mathematics Department of Zhejiang University. The 1952 readjustment and reshuffling of the colleges and universities found him new positions at Fudan University. He was appointed successively as Dean of Academic Affairs, Vice-president, and finally President of the University. In 1983 he became honorary president of Fudan. Besides, he was a vice-chair for the 7th and the 8th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a member of the Standing Committee of the 5th and the 6th National People's Congress, a vice-president of the Central Committee of the China Democratic League. In 1955 he was elected a member of the Committee of Mathematics and Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and of the Standing Committee of the academy. Celebrated as "first geometer in the Orient", Su founded a new school of differential geometry. He was the author of more than ten monographs, such as An Introduction to the Projective Curve and An Introduction to the Projective Curved Surface. He won the National Scientific Conference Award and a second prize of National Awards for the Advancement of Science and Technology respectively for his achievements in "A Program of Hull Lofting" and "A Production Process of the Hull Form by the Curved-Surface Method".


XIE, Xi-de (1921-2000) was a native of Quanzhou, Fujian Province. She graduated from the Department of Mathematics and Physics of Amoy University in 1946. Then she studied in the U.S. and obtained her doctor's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After returning home in October 1952, Xie taught at Fudan University and served successively as Director of the Institute of Modern Physics, Vice-president, and President of the University. After her retirement in 1988, she became an advisor for Fudan. She was elected as a National Standard Bearer on International Women's Day in 1979 and 1980, a member of the 12th and the 13th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and chair of the 7th Shanghai CPPCC. In 1980, she was elected a member of the Committee of Mathematics and Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a Presidium Member of the academy in 1981, and an academician of the Third World Academy of Sciences in 1988. As a master of surface physics and semiconductor physics, she wrote four monographs on related topics, such as Semiconductor Physics, Solid State Physics and Group Theory and Its Application in Physics.




HUA, Zhong-yi (1931 -) is a native of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. He graduated from the Physics Department of Jiaotong University in 1951. At the end of 1952, he was transferred to Fudan, which acquired his X-ray tube laboratory from his alma mater. He served successively as Dean of the Physics Department, Associate Director of the Institute of Modern Physics, Dean of the Technology School, Vice-president and President of the University. He was awarded with the national honorary title of "Middle-aged Expert with Distinguished Contributions" in 1984. From 1952 to 1956, he took part in the production of China's first X-ray tube for medical purposes and high-pressure ballast tube. With his academic interest focused on electric vacuum physics, he is the author of more than ten monographs, among which are High Vacuum: Technology and Instruments, Essential Vacuum Technology, and Vacuum Technology in the Recent Thirty Years.




YANG, Fu-jia (1936 -), born in Shanghai in 1936, graduated from the Physics Department of Fudan in 1958. He served successively as Chair of the Department of Atomic Nucleus Science, Director of the Institute of Modern Physics, Dean of the Graduate School, Vice-president, and President of the University. He was awarded with the national honorary title of "Middle-aged Expert with Distinguished Contributions" in 1984, and was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was the chief founder, leader and organizer of the atom and nucleus physics laboratory based on the accelerator, and has made quite a number of important research achievements that are internationally noteworthy. He is the author of several monographs, including Atomic Physics and Applied Nucleus Physics.
　

Secretaries of the CPC Committee of Fudan University

LI Zheng-wen (1908 -), a native of Wei County, Shandong Province, studied at Northeast University and Tsinghua University. In the spring of 1933, he joined the Communist Party of China and was sent to study in the Soviet Union in 1934. After returning home, he was engaged in underground work and taught as a professor at Aurora Women's College of Arts and Sciences and then at Great China University. In June 1949, the Shanghai Military Control Committee appointed Li as the representative to take over Fudan University, and, in the meantime, as the Director for the Committee of School Affairs of Chi Nan University, Shanghai. He became Vice-president of the People's Revolutionary University of East China in 1951, Party Secretary and Vice-president of Fudan University in January 1952. In 1954 he was transferred to Beijing to be Head in the Section of Political Education under the Ministry of Higher Education, Director of the Lecture Group of Peking Professors, Honorary Chair of the China Association of Senior Professors, etc. He was devoted to Marxist education in higher education institutions for many years. He wrote papers like "The Classes on Party History Should Be an Integral Part of Marxism-Leninism Education in the Colleges", translated A Political Economy Coursebook by the Russian scholar, Lapidus and Materialistic Dialectics by Rosenthal.



YANG, XiGuang (1915-1989) was a native of Wuhu, Anhui Province. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1936 and was sent to the Northeastern Army to do underground work. He played a part in the famous Xi'an Incident. Transferred out of the army in 1939, he served successively as Director of the POW Office under the Enemy Conversion Department, Head of the Political Instruction Office, and Assistant Commissar in the Mid-China Field Army and the East-China Military Command. In August 1949 he was transferred to a Fujian Province and worked as Associate Director and then Director of the Publicity Department of the CPC Committee of Fujian, Chief Member of the Committee of Culture and Education of the People's Government of Fujian, and a member of the CPC Committee of the province. Yang was appointed as the Party secretary of Fudan in 1954 and then began to hold a concurrent post of a vice-president of the University. Besides, he was a member of the 2nd and the 3rd Party Committee of Shanghai. In 1959, he became Director of the Department of Education and Public Health under the Shanghai CPC Committee, and an alternate secretary of the committee in 1965. Yang became editor-in-chief of Guangming Daily in 1978. It was he who directed the revision of the commentary "Practice Is the Sole Criterion for Testing Truth" and approved its publication. The article gave rise to a nationwide heated discussion about the way to tell truth and non-truth apart. He was elected to be a delegate to the 12th National CPC Congress, a member of the Standing Committee of the 6th and 7th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and Chair of the Presidium of the All China Journalists' Association.


WANG, Ling (1918 -), a native of Qianshan, Anhui Province, participated in the revolution in 1937 and joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1939. He was Director of the 10th Squad of the North Yangtse Guerilla Army of the New Fourth Army, a member of and then a member of the Standing CPC Committees of Yan-Fu Region and Sheyang County, Secretary of the 5th Area of the county, Deputy Secretary and Director of the Publicity Department of the Party Committee of Wuxi County, a member of the Party Committee of Bohai Area, and Party Secretary of Zhanhua County. He began to work at Fudan University in 1952, and served successively as First Deputy Secretary, and Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of the University. He was also Director of the Political Instruction Division, Chair of the Atomic Energy Science Department, Associate Director of the Institute of Atomic Energy, and Vice-president of Fudan. In the October of 1965 he was appointed as Acting Secretary of Fudan. After the Cultural Revolution, Wang was in charge of the Office of Political Campaigns of the University, trying hard to get everything back to normal. In 1978 he was appointed Second Party Secretary and Vice-president of Fudan. In 1981 he was transferred to Tongji University, where he served as Party Secretary.


XIA, Zheng-nong (1904 -), originally named Xia Zheng-he, with Zi-meiXia as his courtesy name and Zhengnong as his penname, is a native of Xinjian, Jiangxi Province. He studies at Nanking University and Fudan University. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1926 and became the leader of the Party branch in Xinjian in 1927. In 1928 he was appointed as the branch secretary of the CYLC Committee of Fudan University and was arrested and imprisoned in 1929 by the KMT government.

Released from prison, he became a secretary of the Publicity Division of the Central CYLC Committee. Then he joined the Left-wing Federation in 1933 and became one of its leaders in the later stage of the federation. He worked as an editor for Reading and Living and Tai Po and editor-in-chief for New Cognition, all the three being magazines.

He was Director of the divisions of Politics, of the United Front, and of Civil Campaigns of the New Fourth Army, Secretary-general of the Military and Political Committee of Middle Jiangsu, Deputy Secretary of Shandong CPC Committee and Secretary of the Secretariat of the committee. He became First Secretary of the Party Committee of Fudan in 1978. He became a member of the Standing Committee of Shanghai Party Committee and then Secretary of Shanghai CPC Committee in 1979. He used also to serve as Chair of the Shanghai Federation of Social Sciences, Chair of the Shanghai Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Editor-in-chief of Ci Hai, the encyclopedia, Associate Director of the Editorial Board of Encyclopedia Sinica, a member of the Advisory Commission of the Central Committee of the CPC. He was elected to be a delegate to the 1st National People's Congress and the 8th National Party Congress. His major works include Zheng-nong's Comments on Art and Literature, Zheng-nong's Theory on Creative Writing and Selected Political Essays of Zheng-nong.


SHENG, Hua (1913-1997), a native of Yizheng, Jiangsu Province, studied at Kaifeng University and the Agricultural College of National Peking University. In 1935 he went to Japan and studied at Sendai Imperial University. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1929 and the New Fourth Army in 1938. He used to be Associate Director of the Social Investigation Team of the Logistics Division of the New Fourth Army Headquarters. He served successively as Chief of the Enemy Work Division of the 3rd Section of Middle Jiangsu, Director of the Enemy Work Department and of the City Work Department of the 3rd Prefecture of Middle Jiangsu, Party Secretary of the Party School of the 1st Prefecture of Middle Jiangsu, Director of the POW Officer Conversion Office of the Mid-China Field Army, Associate Director of the Liaison Office of the Party Committee of Middle Jiangsu, and Director of the Education Office of the Party school of the Mid-China Work Committee.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he was appointed Director of the Publicity Division of the Party Committee of North Jiangsu, Chief of the Education Section of the Personnel Department of East China, President and Party Secretary of East China Textile Technology Institute, a member of the Party Committee of Zhejiang Province, Associate Director of the Publicity Department of the province, Deputy Party Secretary of Zhejiang University, Party Secretary and Director of the Education Department of Zhejiang, Party Secretary and Director of the Science and Technology Committee of Zhejiang, Party Secretary and President of Nanjing Technology Institute. He came to work at Fudan in 1959 and 1979. He served successively as a member of the Party standing committee, Vice-president, Second Party Secretary, Party Secretary of the University.


LIN, Ke (1923 -), originally named Yuan Pu, is a native of Rugao, Jiangsu Province. He left Nantong Middle School for the Anti-Japanese Military-political School of the New Fourth Army in 1940. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1941. He held a series of posts before the Liberation: Political Instructor in the Execution Squad of the Military Law Division of the New Fourth Army Headquarters, Commissioner for Underground CPC Work in Nantong, and Deputy Secretary of the Work Committee of Nantong-Rugao. After the People's Republic of China was founded, he was appointed Director of the Publicity Department of the Nantong CPC Committee, Deputy Secretary of the Nantong CPC Committee, Mayor of Nantong, Party Secretary and President of Nanjing Medical College, Party Secretary of Nanjing Technology Institute, Deputy Secretary and Secretary of Tsinghua University. In 1984, he came to Fudan to be its Party Secretary and Deputy Director of the Committee of University Administration. Retired from the Fudan positions, he became Deputy Director of the Editorial Board of the Shanghai Chronicle. He is editor-in-chief of Path to the Ideal (, a volume of the series readers Reflections on Chinese Society) and author of books like Reform and Ideological Education of the Colleges.



QIAN, Dong-sheng (1932-), a native of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, studied at the Chemical Industry Department of Dalian Technology Institute (now Dalian University of Technology) in 1950 and was transferred to be an assistant professor for the course of "Chinese History of Revolution", and studied at the sub-program of the Chinese history of revolution of the program of Marxism-Lenism at the Chinese People's University from 1955 to 1957. For quite a long period he was engaged in the teaching of fundamental Marxist theory and Party history at Dalian Technology Institute. In 1982 he began to lecture on Western Organizational Behavior and to work for the Party. At the college, he served successively as Party Secretary of a department, Director of the Publicity Division, Deputy Party Secretary, and Party Secretary. In August 1990, he was appointed Party Secretary of Fudan. He is the author and translator of books like Path to Success.



CHENG, Tian-quan (1946 -), a native of Shanghai, graduated from the Department of International Politics of Fudan University in 1970. From 1980 to 1983 he studied in the graduate class of the Law Department of of the University and after graduation became a teacher at the department. He served successively as Associate Director and Director of the Publicity Division, and Deputy Party Secretary of the University. In 1995, he became Party Secretary of Fudan. He is the author and translator of books such as A History of Chinese Civil Law, Notes on Idioms of Six Classics, Penal Code of the Qing Dynasty. The books he edited include An Introduction to College Life and An Approach to Deng Xiaoping's Theory, both of which belong to The Moral Readers for College Students.