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Abstract
On November 1, 1988, alumni from all over the world gather in Kunming to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Southwest Associated University—better known by its Chinese abbreviation, Lianda. The date is a compromise. Lianda actually started operations on November 1, 1937, when students and faculty from Peking, Tsinghua, and Nankai universities, having fled the Japanese invasion, began classes at a makeshift institution in Changsha. As the flames of war drew near, the refugees moved once again. By November 1938, they were reunited in Kunming, in the relatively secure fastness of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. There they would stay until May 1946, when Lianda disbanded, its constituent institutions returned north, and only its normal school—today's Yunnan Teacher's College—remained as its legacy to Yunnan.