15 Facts About Ginling College

Ginling College, known by its pinyin romanization as Jinling College or Jinling Women's College, is a women's college of Nanjing Normal University in Nanjing, China.

Ginling College was founded in 1913 against the backdrop of the Social Gospel Movement and the Student Volunteer Movement in the United States, and the increasing demand for women's education propelled by the Chinese Revolution of 1911.

Ginling College's started Bible classes, and with the help of the refugee women, created a list of missing men to present to the Japanese Embassy.

In return, Ginling College students were admitted to all the regular departments of the university.

Under the new Communist government, Ginling College's curriculum had to incorporate some political requirements.

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Ginling College reopened in 1987 as part of Nanjing Normal University through the efforts of alumnae and Wu Yifang.

Jin Feng has argued that Ginling College's founders belonged to the group of “modernists” in the mission field who were more interested in preparing elite Chinese women for “Christian leadership, ” than in converting the illiterate and poverty-stricken Chinese masses.

Ginling College was especially strong in English, physical education, and home economics.

Ginling College had a reputation of strength in English and weakness in Chinese instruction because of its emphasis on English.

Physical education including dance instructions at Ginling College was what garnered the most attention but gave it bad publicity.

For instance, an incident in 1927 in which a group of Ginling College students was found dancing with British naval men outraged the public, as it went against Chinese ideal of propriety and national pride.

Ginling College currently offers 6 undergraduate majors, 5 master's programs, and 4 orientations for master's degree candidates.

Ginling College's first home was an old-style Chinese residence in Embroidery Alley known locally as the Garden of the Lis because it was previously owned by the fifth son of Li Hongzhang, the famous statesman of the Qing dynasty.

Ginling College had designed buildings for Yale-in-China and the Yenching University campus.

The Social and Athletic Building, a gift of the Smith Ginling College Alumnae, was considered the “best example up to that time of Chinese style in architecture adapted to modern uses.