On September 17, Paul G. Pickowicz, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, San Diego, delivered a lecture titled “Shanghai Twenties: In Search of the Modern Marriage” at the Yenching Academy. It was the second lecture in our Topics in China Studies Lecture ...

27 November 2025

During his state visit to the UK in October 2015, President Xi Jinping delivered an important speech entitled “Work Together to Promote Openness, Inclusiveness and Peaceful Development” at  City Hall in the City of London, stressing that China and the UK should, by taking a farsighted and strat...

06 November 2025

My name is Will and I am from the southern seaside town of Brighton in the UK. I have the privilege of joining the 11th cohort Yenching scholars specialising in Politics and International Relations.

This will be my first time studying in China – the next chapter in a journey that actually sta...

05 November 2025

RegistrationIn the warm breeze of Beijing’s autumn, the new cohort of Yenching Scholars arrived at Peking University, full of expectations for the coming years. The campus lit up with vitality and sweetness from every single “hello” to every single infectious smile. Together, the new cohort wi...

04 November 2025

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