 In summer, a group of eleven Chinese faculty members at Tsinghua, most of whom were from the Jiangnan region, established the Lida Society () to promote education in China.Hu Dunfu was the head of the society, and other members included Ping Hailan (), Zhu Xiangwan (), and Gu Yangwu ().In November 1911, the eleven members of Lida resigned from Tsinghua after having a disagreement with the American administrators at the college, and left Beijing for Shanghai.