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Chiao Tung University (交通大學) was a public university in China, with its main
campus in Shanghai. Founded as Nan Yang Public School in 1896, It had a complex
history of renamings, mergers and demergers, and today its traditions are
carried on by five universities, namely: Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Xi'an
Jiaotong University, Beijing Jiaotong University, Southwest Jiaotong University
(in Chengdu), and National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (in Taiwan).
Miles Li, 4 June 2023
image located by Miles Li, 4 June 2023
Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons
"The awakened lion arises, wrestling
the earth" (醒獅起 搏大地), presumably in proper colours on a white background.
Miles Li, 4 June 2023
The university song, published in 1926, mentioned a "yellow-blue university flag". Possibly a blue-yellow horizontal bicolour, with an emblem at the centre.
image by Miles Li, 4 June 2023
Blue-yellow horizontal bicolour, with the university's initials 交大 in black
inside a white disc at the centre.
Miles Li, 4 June 2023
image by Miles Li, 4 June 2023
Blue-yellow horizontal bicolour, with the university's initials 交大 in black
inside a white disc at the centre of the blue, and the words 'Tangshan College'
(唐山學院) in black at the yellow.
Miles Li, 4 June 2023
image by Miles Li, 4 June 2023
Blue-yellow horizontal bicolour, with the university's initials 交大 in black
inside a white disc at the centre of the blue, and the words 'Peiping College'
(北平學院) in black at the yellow.
Miles Li, 4 June 2023
image located by Miles Li, 6 June 2023
On 7 July 1950, Chiao Tung University adopted a new flag to reflect the new
Communist China. Red, with a five-pointed star at the canton, a simplified
university emblem at the upper hoist, and with the university's initials 交大 at
the lower fly, all in yellow.
On 29 September 1952, the PRC Ministry of
Education issued the 'Principles and rules regarding the designs of the flags
and badges of the various levels of schools', which stated that "For the various
levels of schools it is not necessary to establish school emblems; school flags
only need to use simple colours, and it is sufficient to show the school names,
and it is not necessary to add symbols." As a result the 1950 university flag
was abolished.
Miles Li, 4 June 2023