The spirit of academic freedom

Academic freedom is the soul of a university. Only a university that fully enjoys academic autonomy and has a strong academic atmosphere can truly find its "self", and the university can enjoy other rights correctly and move towards the center of the society voluntarily and consciously. During the Republican period, the spirit of Peking University initiated by Cai Yuanpei and the flame of Tsinghua University ignited by Chen Yinke finally converged into the spirit of modern academic freedom in China. During the most glorious period of Peking University, the liberal Hu Shi, the radical Chen Duxiu, and the conservative Liang Shuming all declared their views and thoughts in Peking University. Cai Yuanpei represented the liberal schooling ideology of the Peking University authorities, and the juxtaposition of Hu, Chen, and Liang represented the liberal state of Peking University's academics. This is the basic basis for Peking University to be able to be "new and different" to say that it leads the history of China's humanities and social sciences academic glory before the 1950s, and the academic tradition of the Southwest Association of Universities, in a sense, it is the epitome of the spirit of the Republic of China University of Academia.