Faculty of Arts, Guangxi University for Nationalities

Guangxi University for Nationalities is located in the western suburb of Nanning City, founded in 1952. The campus has a clear and beautiful lake, the lake is a dense acacia trees, the scenery is very charming. 1950s, the President of the Supreme People's Court of China, the old poet Xie Juya to the Guangxi Institute for Nationalities (i.e., today's predecessor of the University for Nationalities of Guangxi) when inspecting the improvisation of a poem, which has a line: "also from the lake to find acacia." The Acacia Lake was thus named. Over the past half century, the College of Arts and Letters has been born, grown and expanded along with the Acacia Lake. Faculty of Letters (former Department of Chinese) was first established in 1960 as the first undergraduate department of Guangxi Institute for Nationalities. In the following year, Guangxi Teachers' Training College was merged into Guangxi Institute for Nationalities, and the Department of Chinese was enrolled in more teacher-training classes. 1963 Guangxi Teachers' Training College was separated from Guangxi Institute for Nationalities, and Nanning Teachers' Training College was merged into the Department of Chinese, and the liberal arts teachers of Nanning Teachers' Training College were merged into the Department of Chinese. 1964 Nanning Teachers' Training College was also separated from the Department of Chinese. 2000 Chinese Department of Guangxi Institute for Nationalities, the Department of Ethnic Languages and Cultures, the Center for Teaching and Researching Foreign Chinese, and the Department of Teaching and Researching College of University Language were combined into the College of Chinese. In 2006, Guangxi Institute for Nationalities was renamed Guangxi University for Nationalities, and in order to adapt to the new situation, the School of Chinese was renamed the College of Liberal Arts.

Leaders of the Party and the country and famous scholars have paid great attention to the growth of Guangxi University for Nationalities. In the early 1960s, the vice premier of the State Council Marshal Chen Yi visited Guangxi Institute for Nationalities, said to the leadership of the faculty, "You have such a beautiful environment, you should produce more poets and writers." Guo Moruo often corresponded with Zhu Tang, a teacher of the Chinese Department, and accepted Zhu Tang's request for an inscription for Guangxi Institute for Nationalities. Ding Ling, a famous Chinese female writer, came to the Chinese Department to give lectures. The famous Chinese poet Zang Kejia inscribed the name of the publication for the student association organization Acacia Lake Literary Society. The college now has 2,230 full-time master's degree students, undergraduates and foreign students***, and more than 1,700 local graduate students and correspondence undergraduate and specialized students.