Imagine studying calculus while bombs fall nearby 💣📖. That was reality for students at National Southwest Associated University (Lianda) – a phoenix of knowledge that rose from the ashes of WWII in China.
In our Art Amid the Flames series, we spotlight how three elite universities – Peking, Tsinghua, and Nankai – merged in 1937 while fleeing Japanese aggression. Their new campus in Kunming became a revolutionary education hub 🏛️, producing Nobel laureates like Chen-Ning Yang and architect I.M. Pei!
💡 "They built classrooms from mud bricks and debated philosophy in air raid shelters," says CGTN's Yang Jinghao from the university's preserved sites. Despite wartime shortages, Lianda became China's #1 STEM innovator 🔬 while preserving humanities education.
Today, its legacy lives through:
🧪 Groundbreaking wartime research
🎨 Underground art movements
🌱 Modern Chinese academic traditions
This educational Avengers team 💥 proved that even war can't extinguish the light of learning. Their story? A masterclass in resilience 📈✨.
