1.Dr. Joseph Needham visited National Sun Yat-sen University in Pingshi

In February 1943, Dr Joseph Needham, a famous British scholar, was dispatched by the Royal Society to take field trips in China as part of the British Aid for China campaign. In the summer of 1944, Dr. Needham made a special trip to Pingshi to visit National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYSU), where he had two long conversations with Professor Wang Yanan, the translator of Capital, and discussed issues over Chinese bureaucracy. Wang Yanan was inspired to write the book Bureaucracy in China.

Photo 1: Joseph Needham

Photo 2: Bureaucracy in China by Wang Yanan

2.More than 200 students of NSYSU joined the East River Column to fight against Japanese aggression

In the second half of 1944, the Kuomintang was forced to retreat from the frontline, and Shaoguan and other areas in northern Guangdong were about to fall. The underground CPC organization of NSYSU mobilized about 200 outstanding students to join the East River Column and fight in the battlefield behind enemy lines. These students made important contributions to the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation in southern China.