On the morning of September 5, 2026 as the whispers of autumn blew through campus, the Yenching Academy of Peking University welcomed its newly minted 12th cohort of Yenching Scholars with the annual opening ceremony at Qiulin Auditorium. Over one hundred students from across the globe gathered in the recently renovated lecture hall on Peking University’s historic Yanyuan campus to take the first ...

The 2026 China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) was held in Beijing from September 9 to 13. Under the overall theme of “Education Empowers the Nation, Intelligence Creates the Future,” the Education Services exhibition was in Hall 8 of Shougang Park. As a flagship program showcasing the success of the “Study Abroad in Beijing” initiative, Yenching Academy presented at the exhibition,...

On December 15, 2025, Ni Zhange, Professor of Department of Religion and Culture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, delivered a lecture titled “Tamed Apocalypse, Engaged Nihilism, and Cthulhu-Cultivation Novels in Contemporary China” at Yenching Academy. This lecture was the ninth one in the China Studies Lecture Series for the 2025‒2026 academic year and was hosted by Lu Yang,...

Walking out of my first Chinese Studies class at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, I felt peace，the type of peace you feel when you have finally worked out the answer to a problem that kept you up all night; the peace you feel when you know you have found your path,  that you are where you are meant to be. It was the very first day of a four-year degree course, but I already knew I would love it there.And ...

My China story began in 2019, when I traveled there with my father. During that trip, we visited some of the country’s leading universities, including Peking University, where I visited Yenching Academy. At the time, I was still trying to understand what kind of academic life I wanted for myself, so I did not leave China with a finished plan. What I did leave with was a very clear impression. I remember ...

From June 26 to July 4, the inaugural World Young Sinologists Summer Institute was held at Yenching Academy, Peking University. The event was jointly organized by Peking University’s One Thousand Books in One Century Academic Classics Translation Project and Yenching Academy, with the aim of cultivating a new generation of high-caliber sinologists with cross-cultural perspectives.The opening ceremony ...