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Since the end of the Qing Dynasty, universities which represent the highest level of the Western education system, began to appear in Chinese cities. As a result, universities and cities constituted a set of important social relations during the transition period of modern Chinese society. This book attempts to focus on Tianjin, one of the emerging "modern cities" and the place where China’s self-run universities started. From the end of the 19th century to the entire Republic of China, the university and Tianjin urban society have been the multiple interactions in the fields of talent and technology supply, infrastructure construction, urban management, cultural and educational customs, and even political action, and on this basis, which reveals the internal coordination mechanism of China's urban development and university growth.