On the afternoon of May 29, Yenching Academy held the 2025‒2026 End-of-Year Celebration and award ceremony for the 2025‒2026 Yenching Academy Award for Outstanding Contribution. YCA Dean Dong Qiang as well as Associate Deans Fan Shiming and Brent Haas attended the ceremony, which was co-hosted ...

20 October 2026

As red cherries dangled from clusters of green leaves against the clear blue sky of May, with the crystal-clear Grand Canal flowing by, Dai Zhiyi, the assistant to the secretary of the Party branch of Shagudui village, Xiji town, Tongzhou district, walked through cherry orchards in the village wi...

19 October 2026

Dear Felipe,You are sitting in São Paulo, having just decided to learn Mandarin, and everyone around you finds this decision slightly odd. Portuguese, Spanish, English – those had their reasons. Many in Brazil already predict China’s growing influence but predicting it and doing something about...

19 October 2026

On September 4, Dong Qiang, Dean of Yenching Academy gave a lecture titled “A Game of Chinese Characters with Kafka, Giacometti and Picasso: Exploring Modernization Potentials of Traditional Chinese Culture Through Sin0-Western Comparison.” Tailored to the new cohort, the lecture was first one ...

08 October 2026

RegistrationAs the coolness of autumn crept past the lingering summer heat, students in the 2026 cohort arrived at Peking University. On August 31, Yenching Academy received its latest cohort at Shaoyuan. With luggage packed and minds brimming with aspirations, our newest members will start a new...

08 October 2026

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 i...

29 September 2026

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 showc...

29 September 2026

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 ...

29 September 2026

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...

28 September 2026

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...

22 September 2026