 After the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949, China experienced a communist revolution leading to the creation of the People's Republic of China.Tsinghua University President Mei Yiqi, along with many professors, fled to Taiwan with the retreating Nationalist government.They established the National Tsing Hua Institute of Nuclear Technology in 1955, which later became the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan, an institution independent and distinct from Tsinghua University.