The Tsinghua University in Beijing is a very different institution after 1949. A large group of Tsinghua faculty staff and alumni relocated to Taiwan including

The Tsinghua University in Beijing is a very different institution after 1949. A large group of Tsinghua faculty staff and alumni relocated to Taiwan including its longest serving president, Mei Yiqi. What was left behind soon got dismantled and reorganized along with other universities, turning every university including Tsinghua into Soviet-style institutions that focused on strictly defined disciplines instead of having a wide range of faculties. Its self-proclaimed long heritage before the PRC was not promoted much until the 80's when China started to reform and open up. The endowment fund set up from Boxer Rebellion reparations now belongs to National Tsinghua University in Taiwan and so is Tsinghua's American connection.