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-c...

29 October 2025

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 C...

29 October 2025

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...

21 October 2025

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...

17 October 2025

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 ...

17 October 2025

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 number...

10 October 2025

If someone had told me a few years ago that I would one day be part of the Yenching Academy, I would have probably smiled in disbelief. And yet, here I am—living a dream that was born many years ago, during my first Chinese language class at L’Orientale University in Naples.From the very beginn...

22 September 2025

My China story begins with an earthquake.In April 2016, I was fifteen when a 7.8-magnitude quake devastated Ecuador’s coast. Over 700,000 people needed assistance and almost 100,000 were displaced. It became clear that my country wasn’t prepared for something of that scale, so we turned to inte...

16 September 2025

On the morning of September 6, 2025, the newest 11th cohort of Scholars were warmly welcomed to the Yenching Academy of Peking University with an inspiring opening ceremony at the Qiulin Auditorium. One hundred and ten intellectually curious and enthusiastic students gathering from all around the...

08 September 2025

On April 19 and 20, the first Princeton China Forum was held at McCosh Hall, Princeton University, where Einstein first delivered a speech on his theory of relativity.On July 27, the Forum gathered in Beijing, inviting intellectuals in science, technology, humanities, and environment sectors to d...

30 July 2025