Hangzhou High School (), or Hanggao, established in 1899, is one of the most famous high schools in

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. It was the earliest-founded public high school in Zhejiang Province. Its history dates back to Yangzheng College founded by Lin Qi. There are 52

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who graduated from the institution as of 2018. Hangzhou High School has two campuses, the Gongyuan Campus at No.238, Fengqi Road, and the Qianjiang Campus at No.1958 East Zhijiang Road. The Qianjiang Campus started operating in September, 2015. This new campus including the International Division, which provide

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to students. Hangzhou High School also participates in several international exchange programs with high schools oversea. There is Dover-Sherborn Exchange with

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in Boston, MA.http://www.hanggao.net/index.php/dwjl/gw_detail/209

Club activities

Hanggao Observatory

Hanggao Observatory, also known as "Hangzhou High School Astronomy Club", is the student astronomy club. 48700 Hanggao (provisional designation: 1996 HZ21) is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered through the Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program at the Xinglong Station in the

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of China on April 17, 1996. It is named after Hangzhou High School.

Hanggao Model United Nations

Hanggao Model United Nations is a non-profit academic organization established in 2011 by students in Hangzhou High School who cares about politics and is eager to contribute to the world peace and development. The association adheres to the principle of academic supremacy and positiveness, enriches the campus life of its members, fully carries out various activities, trains students' speaking ability, and shapes young talents with core competitiveness. We hope to open up the horizon of our students through our activities, which is in order to promote the importance of the "youngster vision" of today's world. So far, Hanggao Model United Nations has held four sessions of the Model United Nations Conference in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. Among them, the 2018 Hangzhou High School Model United Nations Conference has more than 150 representatives from 16 high schools and 3 universities——Haining High School, Jinhua No. 1 Middle School, Jiashan High School, Jinyun Middle School, Shaoxing No. 1 Middle School, Ningbo No. 3 Middle School; Outside Zhejiang province includes Jiangsu Qianhuang Senior High School, Shanghai Maple Leaf International School, China Metrology University, etc. The development of Hanggao Model United Nations Conference has moved from the initial school-level conference to the municipal level, and then to the regional conferences out of Hangzhou City, out of Zhejiang Province, and to the world. After the closing of each Hanggao Model United Nations Conference, it would be highly praised by every representative.

Hanggao Lu Xun Literature Club

On October 10, 1921, Wang Jingzhi, Pan Mohua, Feng Xuefeng and other students from Zhejiang First Normal School (predecessor of Hangzhou High School) founded the literature club “Chenguang Club” (the “Lakeside Poetry Club” was established the following year), and received the support of teachers such as

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, Zhu Ziqing, who taught them at that time. That meant the birth of the earliest new literary group in Zhejiang, and the creation of a new era of Hangzhou schools' century-old tradition. Lu Xun Literature Club, also known as "Luwen", is based on the tradition of humanity and high standards of literature. The activities of the Literature Club are mainly organized by the students themselves, guided by the instructors, and have already formed an efficient organization.

Notable alumni

Arts and literature

Lu Xun Zhou Shuren (25 September 1881 – 19 October 1936), better known by his pen name Lu Xun (or Lu Sun; ; Wade–Giles: Lu Hsün), was a Chinese writer, essayist, poet, and literary critic. He was a leading figure of modern Chinese literature. ...

鲁迅, founding member of modern Chinese literature movement. *

Li Shutong Hong Yi (23 October 1880 – 13 October 1942; , or ''Hung Yit'' and ), born Li Shutong (李叔同 and 李漱筒) was a Chinese Buddhist monk, artist and art teacher. He also went by the names Wen Tao, Guang Hou, and Shu Tong, but was most comm ...

李叔同, Buddhist monk, artist and art teacher. *

Xu Zhimo Xu Zhimo (, , Mandarin: , 15 January 1897 – 19 November 1931) was a Chinese romantic poet who strove to loosen Chinese poetry from its traditional forms and to reshape it under the influences of Western poetry and the vernacular Chinese langu ...

徐志摩, renowned poet. *

Yu Dafu Yu Wen, better known by his courtesy name Yu Dafu (December 7, 1896 – September 17, 1945) was a modern Chinese short story writer and poet. He was one of the new literary group initiators, and this new literary group was named the Creation Soc ...

郁达夫, short story writer and poet. * Li Linsi 厉麟似, renowned educator, diplomat and scholar. *

Feng Zikai Feng Zikai (; November 9, 1898 – September 15, 1975) was an influential Chinese painter, pioneering '' manhua'' () artist, essayist, and lay Buddhist of 20th-century China. Born just after the First Sino-Japanese War and dying just before the e ...

丰子恺, painter and cartoonist. * Pan Tianshou 潘天寿, painter and art educator. * Jin Wulun 金吾伦, philosopher and close friend of Jin Yong *

Qin Benli Qin Benli (; August 13, 1918 – April 16, 1991) was a well-known Chinese journalist, newspaper editor, commentator, and founder of the '' World Economic Herald'' newspaper. Benli grew up as the eldest of four children (two sisters and one brother) ...

钦本立, newspaper editor

Government and politics

Xu Kuangdi Xu Kuangdi KmstkNO FREng (; born December 1937) is a Chinese politician and scientist, best known for his term as Mayor of Shanghai from 1995 to 2001. He supervised the transformation of Shanghai during his administration into a center for in ...

徐匡迪, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering * Hu Jingyao 胡景耀, Chief scientist of National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Honorary adviser of Hanggao Observatory

Academia

Jiang Lifu Jiang Lifu (4 July 1890 – 3 February 1978) was a Chinese mathematician and educator widely regarded as the Father of modern Chinese mathematics. His main research areas are the theory of syringine geometry and Matrix (mathematics), matrix. Li ...

姜立夫, mathematician, The creator of Nankai University math college

Principals

*1942 - 1946: Cui Dongbo 崔东伯 *1984 - 1999: Qi Dong 齐栋 *1999 - 2005: Ge Jinfa 葛锦发 *2005 - 2010: Miao Shuijuan 缪水娟 *2010 - 2017: Shang Ke 尚可 *2017 – 2021: Xiaoxiong Cai 蔡小雄 *2021–present: Tang Xinhong 唐新红

Sister schools

* Hokuriku High School

References

External links

Official website

Official Website of Hanggao Observatory (Chinese)
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