Hangzhou University (), colloquially called Hangda () and formerly romanised as Hangchow University, was a public university in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. The university was founded as Zhejiang Teachers College () in 1952 by merging the departments of humanities, sciences and education at Hangchow University and Zhejiang University. The name of the university in postal romanisation is the same as Hangchow University run by American missionaries, yet the Chinese names are different. In September 1996, the university was selected into Project 211. In September 1998, the university was merged into Zhejiang University, with its campus taken over by Zhejiang University as its Xixi Campus. History The idea of establishing a Hangzhou University was initially proposed in the Congress of Zhejiang Province in 1920, which was widely echoed by Zhejiang born people including Cai Yuanpei and Jiang Menglin. When Cai Yuanpei visited Hangchow University in March 1927, he said to Hangchow University students and faculty, "I am coming to find a proper site for Hangzhou University but the site has been picked up by you." With the establishment of National Third Chungshan University in 1927, which later was renamed as Zhejiang University, the call for establishing Hangzhou University faded away. During the 1952 reorganisation of Chinese higher education, part of School of Liberal Arts and School of Sciences at Zhejiang University, the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Hangchow University and Zhejiang Education College merged to form Zhejiang Teachers College. In September 1958, Zhejiang Teachers College, located in a newly constructed Xixi campus, merged with the Zhejiang Party School, located in the former Hangchow University campus, now known as the Zhijiang Campus, and formed Hangzhou University as a university specialised in social sciences. Thus, its mathematics, physics, chemistry departments was proposed to go into the Zhejiang College of Engineering and its biology to be incorporated into Zhejiang Agricultural University in July 1960, which didn't come true due to objection from the universities. In 1960, Hangzhou University became wholly based at Xixi, as the Zhijiang campus became taken by Zhejiang University, where Zhejiang set up three new departments. From 1966 to 1976, the Cultural Revolution impacted the university, with at least ten killed due to political prosecution. Upon request of Hangzhou University professors Song Yunbin, Wang Jiawu and president Chen Jiangong, Zhou Enlai ordered to protect the Wenlan Pavilion, where the Siku Quanshu was protected from being destroyed by the Red Guards.