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Peking University
北京大学

Former names	Imperial University of Peking
Type	Public
Established	1898
President	Hao Ping
Party Secretary	Qiu Shuiping
Academic staff	7,317
Students	42,655
Undergraduates	15,628
Postgraduates	27,027
Location	Haidian District, Beijing , China 39°59′23″N 116°18′19″E / 39.98972°N 116.30528°E / 39.98972; 116.30528
Campus	Urban, 274 ha (680 acres)
Colours	Red
Affiliations	IARU, AALAU, AEARU, APRU, BESETOHA, C9

The Peking University (Beijing University) is a prestigious university in Beijing, China. It was created in 1898.

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The plaque of the Imperial University of Peking.
Portrait of the Guangxu Emperor
The faculty of Peking University Institute for Chinese Classics in 1924
Statue of Cai Yuanpei on Peking University's campus
Peking University's West Gate, one of the symbols of the university campus
View of the central campus
One of the administrative buildings with the huabiao
A performance of Kunqu at Peking University
Peking University HSBC Business School at its Shenzhen campus.
Peking University during winter. The campus is situated on a former imperial garden.
Peking University during the autumn.
The College of Architecture and Landscape
Boya Pagoda
The Humanities Buildings
A stone bridge inside the campus
Peking University West Gate
Peking University's Main Library
Weiming Lake occupies the central part of the campus of Peking University
Students skiing over the Weiming Lake before the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing
Peking University's Science Teaching Building
School of International Studies
College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering
Peking University during the spring. Flowers are blooming everywhere.
School of Archaeology and Museology
Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Arts and Archaeology
Department of History
School of Life Sciences
Beijing International Center for Mathematical Research
Department of Chinese Language and Literature
Gu Hongming, translator and educator.
Lu Xun, leading figure of modern Chinese literature.
Hu Shih, influential Chinese philosopher and essayist.
Lin Yutang, Chinese writer, linguist, inventor, and translator.
Liang Shuming, philosopher.
Nuclear physicist and key contributor to the Chinese nuclear weapon program Deng Jiaxian.
Fei Xiaotong, sociologist and anthropologist.
Nuclear physicist and leading organizer of the Chinese nuclear weapon program, Qian Sanqiang.
Current Premier of China, Li Keqiang (LLB, PhD)
Nobel laureate Tu Youyou, pharmaceutical chemist and educator, recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Co-founder and CEO of Baidu, billionaire Robin Li (BSc, Information Management, 1991)
Chess grandmaster and four-time Women's World Chess Champion, Hou Yifan (BA, International Relations, 2018)
Chess grandmaster and highest rated Chinese chess player in history, Ding Liren (BA, Law)
Mathematician and MacArthur Fellow Yitang Zhang (BA 1982, MA 1984)
Taikonaut and first Chinese woman to perform a spacewalk Wang Yaping (PhD candidate, Psychology)

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