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Story behind Buildings 3: No. 4 Building (East)
September 22, 2022This is No. 4 Building (East), where Zhensheng Choir was founded. Built in 1916, it is a three-story brick-and-wood structure with a floor area of about 3,000 square meters. It used to be a student dormitory building of Aurora University. With a red-tiled slope top, arc-shaped window holes and blue-bricked pilasters, it forms part of the former site of Aurora University together with No. 1 Buil... -
Story behind Buildings 4: No. 8 Building (East)
September 21, 2022This is No. 8 Building (East), former site of the Third Hospital during the 1937 Battle of Shanghai. Built in 1919, it is a two-story brick-and-wood structure with an area of about 700 square meters. With a red-tiled slope top, arc-shaped window holes and blue-bricked pilasters, it forms part of the former site of Aurora University together with No. 1 Building (East) and No. 4 Building (East). ... -
Story behind Buildings 5: Aurora Auditorium
September 20, 2022This is SJTUSM’s current auditorium, located on the third floor of Yide Building. The former school auditorium was a two-story building in the west campus named Aurora Auditorium. Built in 1928, it was the former site where the 28th Hospital for Wounded Soldiers was founded, but demolished in 1994 for the construction of the North-South Overpass.After the Mukden Incident took place on Septembe... -
Story behind Buildings 6: Statue of Yu He
September 19, 2022In the Red Mansion, there is a statue of Professor Yu He, one of the founders of China’s immunology and the founder of the Division of Basic Medical Sciences and the Institute of Immunology of Shanghai Second Medical College.Yu He, born in Beijing and with Zhejiang Province’s Shaoxing Municipality as his native place, was a microbiologist and first-class professor. He graduated from Beijing M...