Cai Yuanpei's Restructuring of Peking University and the Formation of a Modern University System of Schools and Departments

Course reform introduced by Cai Yuanpei during the time of Peking University was of symbolic value in the setting of China’s modern university academic and construction of collage systems.Cai Yuanpei’s reform ideas were to make Peking University a research university emphasing on the education of liberal arts and sciences, based on German university mode.The measures made Peking University a system of university, college and department.The other colleges and universities attempted to learn from this system, which was approved by Ministry of Education of Nanking National Government.Then, the modern university disciplinary structures and schools and departments were confirmed in form of laws and decrees by Nanking National Government.