Shanghai High School


Shanghai High School is a public high school in Shanghai, China. Founded in 1865 as Longmen Academy by Shanghai Intendant Ding Richang, and later becoming the namesake high school of Shanghai in 1949, it is locally considered one of the city's most prestigious high schools, hailed as part of the "Big Four" high schools of Shanghai.
The high school's campus sprawls 340 mu across the Changqiao subdistrict of Xuhui District, southwest of the Shanghai Botanical Garden and west of East China [University of Science and Technology].
Its junior department was separated to Shanghai Huayu Private School in 1999. Shanghai High School's sister school in Hong Kong is the St. Paul's Co-educational College.

History

The school was established in 1865 by Ding Richang under the name Longmen Academy. Initially, Ding borrowed the Zhanhuatang Building of Ningzhu Academy to instruct, located in Huangpu District. In 1867, Yin Baoshi purchased a piece of land with a lump sum of donated silver on the original site of the Xianmian Ancestral Shrine, nowadays off Shangwen by Lujiabang Road in Huangpu District. Nowadays, a historical residential block, Longmencun sits on the block.
In September 1927, educator Zheng Tonghe began his tenure as principal of the school, then named Kiangsu Provincial Shanghai High School. Starting from 1930, Zheng sought a new location to establish campus, as the Shangwen Road campus was falling out of use and its position in the city made expansion difficult. Zheng's search resumed as Japanese Imperial Army withdrew from Shanghai after the Songhu Ceasefire Agreement in May 1932, and eventually purchased 460 mu of land in the Wujiaxiang off Humin Road, Caojing District in Spring 1934. The Auditorium, Longmen Building, and Xianmian Building, all built in the Art Deco style, finished construction in 1936.
After the Japanese attacked on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the Imperial Army occupied the Shanghai foreign concessions, including the French and International settlements, which were the only parts of Shanghai not occupied previously after the Battle of Shanghai. Starting from December 1941, the Wujiaxiang campus turned into the Lunghwa Civilian Assembly Center, an internment camp that held foreign citizens previously living in the concessions. Longmen Building became F block, the administrative block that housed camp commandant Tomohiko Hayashi on the third floor. Xianmian Building became E block, which accommodated internees.
From 1937, the school evacuated to the French Concession, and instructed continued. In 1942, to avoid control by the Wang Jinwei puppet government, the school changed its name to Huxin Private School. The school reverted to the previous name under Kiangsu province in October 1945, and again changed its name to Shanghai High School in June 1949 under the Shanghai Municipal People's Government. The school library finished construction the same year.
The school ceased operations in 1970 due to the Chinese Cultural Revolution. It resumed operations in 1978.
In June 1993, Shanghai High School became the first Chinese school to start an international division. In 1995, Shanghai High School International Division became the first in China to offer an International Baccalaureate program. More than 1750 students from the United States, Japan, Korea, Canada, England, Italy, Germany, Australia, Yugoslavia, Iran, Egypt, Venezuela, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan represent just some of the fifty plus countries and regions represented at Shanghai High School International Division. In 2005, 37.5% graduates entered top 20 universities in the US.
In 2003, Shanghai High School became a UNESCO associated school. That October, it became the first "Shanghai Municipal Demonstration School."

Administration

Principals

  • Tang Shouqian
  • Yang Xianjiang
  • Ou Yuanhuai
  • Zheng Tonghe
  • Wang Shikan
  • Wu Ruinian
  • Shen Yizhen
  • Sun Fuxi
  • Chen Guangzu
  • Ye Keping
  • Bai Zaili
  • Fang Qi'ao
  • Tang Shengchang
  • Feng Zhigang

    International division

Notable people

Alumni include over 100 provincial level or higher leaders, 29 People's Liberation Army generals, and 51 Chinese Academy of Sciences members.

Alumni