环球评报新闻网讯|在世界反法西斯战争中，大批院校迁入贵州，在崇山峻岭中坚持教学与科研，如浙江大学、大夏大学、湘雅医学院及其他数十所院校，不仅继续开展了正常的教学活动，培养了大批人才，广大师生更积极参加当地的抗日救亡运动。高校西迁贵州，不仅确保了中国教育事业在战时能继续发展，而且赓续了中国高等教育文脉。
为了解母校西迁的历史，来自哥斯达黎加的浙江大学留学生冯赛（FONSECA CONEJO, JOSE LUIS）和来自塔吉克斯坦的浙江大学留学生丽娜（GHARIBMAMADOVA SABZON）来到贵州。冯赛和丽娜在同为浙大学子的贵州籍学姐郑翔益带领下，一同前往湄潭，探访浙江大学西迁旧址，了解在抗战时期浙大西迁一路经历的困难，以及贵州湄潭对浙大的7年守护，感受到在那个烽火连天的年代，中国西南地区的这个小城——湄潭是如何用最朴素的善意滋养着中国的学术火种，为浙大师生们提供了一片科学报国、安心学习、施教于民的“学术净土”。接着，他们来到福泉，不仅了解到浙大校长竺可桢的母校——国立交通大学唐山工程学院（简称唐山交大，系今天西南交通大学的前身）、北平铁道管理学院内迁贵州办学的故事，也了解到茅以升与中国人民抗日战争的故事，看烽火中迁至贵州的高校如何赓续中国高等教育文脉。
在这段旅程中，冯赛和丽娜不仅看到了浙江大学师生在战火中坚持求知的坚韧，而且见证了贵州人民的无私奉献，更感受到中国人对知识的尊重、对文化的守护、对人类共同价值的追求。旅途最后，冯赛也感慨道：“我看见，当年战火中保存下来的知识,如今，正点亮着这片土地的明天”。
（I could see the knowledge preserved during the war, now shining brightly for the future of this land.）
The Persistence of Seeking Knowledge in the Flames of War
During the World Anti-Fascist War, many Chinese universities relocated to Guizhou. Institutions such as Zhejiang University, Daxia University, Xiangya School of Medicine, and dozens of others continued their teaching and research sheltered by Guizhou’s rugged mountains. They maintained regular academic life and trained a generation of talent. Meanwhile their faculty and students joined local efforts to support the resistance. The westward movement of these universities ensured that China’s higher education could endure through the war period, keeping the academic tradition moving forward.
To understand the history of these universities during the war, José Luis Fonseca Conejo from Costa Rica and Gharibmamadova Sabzon from Tajikistan, both students at Zhejiang University, travel to Guizhou. Guided by their senior schoolmate Zheng Xiangyi, a fellow ZJU student from Guizhou, they head to Meitan County to visit the former campus that sheltered Zhejiang University during the war. There, they learn about the hardships the university overcame on its long road west and how Meitan protected and supported it for seven years. In this quiet southwestern town, they come to feel how simple human kindness helped cradle the flame of knowledge and offered teachers and students a safe plac to study, teach and serve the nation.
Their journey continues on to Fuquan County, where they explored the wartime relocation of the Tangshan Engineering College of the National Chiao Tung University, the alma mater of ZJU President Zhu Kezhen as well as the predecessor of today’s Southwest Jiaotong University, along with the story of the relocation of Beiping Railway Management Institute to Guizhou. They also discovered stories of Mao Yisheng and his contributions during the War of Resistance, gaining a fuller sense of how the universities that moved to Guizhou carried the legacy of Chinese higher education through a time of upheaval.
Throughout this journey, Fonseca and Sabzon see the resilience with which Zhejiang University’s faculty and students pursued knowledge amid the flames of war, and they experience the generosity of the people of Guizhou. Most of all, they sense China’s reverence for education, its commitment to preserving culture, and its belief in values shared by all humanity. At the end of the trip, Fonseca reflects, “I could see the knowledge preserved during the war now shining brightly for the future of this land.”
