 In 1949, the Communist Party of China defeated the Kuomintang government in the Chinese Civil War and established the People's Republic of China.In October 1952, the new Communist government closed Utopia along with many other private universities.Its business school was merged into Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, its school of literature became part of the newly established East China Normal University, the school of science was merged into Fudan University, and the school of engineering was divided and became part of Tongji University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and the new East China Institute of Chemical Technology (now East China University of Science and Technology).