Zaozhuang University Explained

Order:	st
S:	枣庄学院
T:	棗莊學院
P:	Zǎozhuāng Xuéyuàn
L:	Zaozhuang College/Educational institute

Zaozhuang University is a post-secondary educational institution in Zaozhuang, Shandong, China.

History

Zaozhuang Teacher Training School opened in 1971. The government of Shandong Province converted it to a tertiary institute focused on the education field in 1984. It received its current name in 2004 along with a change into being a general post-secondary college.^[1]

In 2018, Zaozhuang University began allowing students to major in Esperanto.^[2] In 2023, in all of China, only Zaozhuang University still had a department dedicated to teaching Esperanto. In January 2023, that department had 24 students. That enrollment decreased after a social media influencer mocked the program the following month.^[3]

In 2012, a museum to Esperanto was established at Zaozhuang University.^[2]

See also

• Esperanto in China

External links

• Zaozhuang University

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Notes and References

1. Web site: Zaozhuang University. China Daily. 2019-05-15. 2024-01-06.
2. Web site: Fang. Tianyu. Esperanto, China’s Surprisingly Prominent Linguistic Subculture is Slowly Dying Out. Radii China. 2021-06-24. 2024-01-06. - Re-posted at the Global Council for Anthropological Linguistics, SOAS University of London.
3. Web site: He. Kai. Wu. Huiyuan. China’s Last Esperanto Students. Sixth Tone. 2023-09-15. 2023-01-06.