Five years have gone by since the day when I scribbled my first Chinese character and, after all this time, I still get asked the same question: why China? I usually like to take people by surprise replying: "for the food, of course, it is delicious!" But as I prepare to move to Beijing, I want t...

09 July 2019

My name is Thabiso, and I fell in love with China when I studied at Fudan University, Shanghai under the Centre for BRICS Studies in 2017. I chose to study in China for my Master's because this country (China) is a powerhouse to be looked at in the near future. The economy is thriving at a very f...

09 July 2019

​I'm Lily Falzon, an incoming YCA scholar from the United States. Although I was born and raised in California, my China story has been in the making for some time. My great-grandfather, Wang Xiaolai (王晓籁), was a prominent businessman in early 20th-century Shanghai and served as Chairman of S...

09 July 2019

THE 21ST CENTURY: THE ERA OF THE CHINESEI dreaded Wednesdays throughout the second semester of my freshman year at the university. The reason being that my stern African politics professor with monstrous narcissistic tendencies (or so I perceived in error, as this perspective changed later) taugh...

09 July 2019

The Value of Having a Degree in China StudiesThank you for giving me the opportunity to speak at this commencement ceremony. As Mencius once said that it is one of the three pleasures to educate the world's talented people. I had the pleasure and honor to teach the best students from the best uni...

03 July 2019

A big thank you to my colleagues: Dean Fan, Dean Moser, the faculty and the whole YCA team, who have played enormous roles in educating, encouraging and helping our students.Thank you to the families who have flown out from every corner of the world to witness the important moment when their sons...

03 July 2019

The Yenching Academy of Peking University today introduces its fifth cohort: 130 outstanding young scholars who will enroll in the interdisciplinary Master’s in China Studies program this September. The scholars hail from 44 countries and regions; 101 international students will come together wi...

25 June 2019

Recently, David Moser, Associate Dean of Yenching Academy, Peking University, has accepted an interview fromGlobal Times, sharing his prospects of China-US educational ties. US varsities worry abou...

14 June 2019

On May 31st, 2019, the Yenching Academy of Peking University held the End of Year Celebration for the 2018-2019 academic year. Yuan Ming, Dean of the Yenching Academy, Associate Dean Fan Shiming, Davi...

05 June 2019

The Yenching Podcast is produced by a team of scholars from the Yenching Academy of Peking University. It is an English-language podcast introducing listeners to various aspects of life in China. This...

31 May 2019