Das Traumbuch – Die Vereinte Südwest-Universität

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The Dream Book tells the moving story of the United Southwest University (Xinan Lianda) during the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). When Beijing, Tianjin and other cities were occupied by Japanese troops, three of China's most renowned universities – Peking University, Tsinghua University and Nankai University – fled to the southwest to Kunming, where they merged to form the United Southwest University. The novel follows the fates of students and professors during this turbulent time. Despite extreme poverty, constant air raids and the most adverse circumstances, they maintained academic operations and created an intellectual center that became the cradle of modern Chinese science. Many later Nobel Prize winners and leading Chinese scientists studied or taught there. This German translation makes this important work of Chinese literature accessible to German-speaking audiences for the first time and offers deep insights into one of the most remarkable episodes in Chinese educational history.