Tamkang University
Hilltop university campus with no walls or gates, built on a ridge named for a five-humped tiger mountain.
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This guide to Tamkang University in Taipei begins in 1950, when wartime chaos pushed thousands of students out of mainland China with their studies cut off mid-sentence. It follows a father and son who opened a two-year English college inside their own house on Cheng Li Street, with no campus and no dormitory, just a living room and a handful of teachers. The ridge the school later moved onto is named Five-Tiger Hill, for a mountain range behind it shaped like a crouching tiger's spine.
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