Yenching Academy received a piano as a gift from the French Bicentennial Art Brand Pleyel. The donation ceremony was held on September 24. The donated piano will add luster to the Academy’s multifunction salon, where both Chinese and international students can play on the piano, enjoying cross-cultural experience with music.The guests attending the donation ceremony included Jean-Pierre Raffarin, ...

On May 28, Professor John E. Hopcroft and Professor Chen Baoquan delivered a lecture titled “Education in the AI Age” at the Yenching Academy hosted by Dean Dong Qiang. John E. Hopcroft is an A.M. Turing Award Laureate, Professor Emeritus in Computer Science at Cornell University and Visiting Chair Professor, Director of Center on Frontiers of Computing Studies (CFCS) at Peking University. Chen Baoquan ...

On September 5, Boya Distinguished Professor of the PKU School of Foreign Studies and Yenching Academy Dean Dong Qiang delivered a lecture titled “From Oracle Bone Inscriptions to Zao Wou-Ki: A Journey Into Chinese Culture Through Language” in English at the Yenching Academy. “Custom-made” by Prof Dong for the Cohort 2025, this was the inaugural lecture in the Topics in China Studies Lecture Series ...

On September 24, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, former Prime Minister of France and Shuhsi Hsü Chair Professor of Yenching Academy delivered a lecture titled “Connecting the World Through Culture: A Perspective on China and Soft Power from My Experience” at the Yenching Academy. It was the third lecture in our Topics in China Studies Lecture Series for the 2025‒26 academic year and hosted by YCA Dean Dong ...

I’m Deiniol from the UK, and reflecting on my decision to study at Yenching Academy, it seems in different ways both circumstantial and inevitable that I would follow this path in studying China.Firstly, my interest in China and China studies began as an undergraduate at Durham University where I took courses on Asian history and political economy, mostly out of curiosity and an urge to explore new ...

My China story starts back home in Buenos Aires. I’d often come across brief news clips that compress China into a single economic or geopolitical headline. Throughout my undergraduate studies, however, I began to feel those clips were missing a lot. I wanted to know the people behind the numbers, uncover the ideas behind the buzzwords, and see the art behind the statistics. That curiosity pus...