Situated in the city of Taiyuan , capital of Shanxi province . Shanxi University is the successor of the academy schools in the Ming and Qing dynasties , which can be traced back to Jinyang Lingde hall college . The Shansi Imperial University ( 山西大学堂 ) was the predecessor of the Shanxi University , which was alternatively romanized as the Shansi University . The Shansi Imperial University was prepared in 1901 by Cen Chunxuan , then-governor of Shanxi , and on May 8th , 1902 , the Shansi Imperial University officially added the College of Western Studies , which was headed by the Welsh Baptist missionary Timothy Richard , focusing on teaching western technologies . 1902 was recognized as the official founding year of Shanxi University . Other than the Chinese government funding , one of the early funding sources of Shanxi University was the returned money from the British government with the Boxer Indemnity of Taiyuan massacre after Boxer Protocol , which was used to support the College of Western Studies
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