At the end of January 2020, an article lauding Japanese efforts and encouragement to the Chinese people made the rounds on social media. In this article, a Japanese youngster shared his impressions of Wuhan and encouraged viewers to visit this dynamic and captivating city when the epidemic is ove...

09 March 2020

This letter is focused on the COVID-19 situation in China and it is addressed to three groups of people: 1) a Chinese passenger who was passed over by a taxi driver, 2) the whole world, and 3) the Chinese people.

26 February 2020

We shall get through this together.

29 January 2020

On November 29 – December 1, 2019, Yenching Scholars visited Guangzhou in a trip led by Professor Liu Haifang of the School of International Studies, Peking University.

13 December 2019

Meet our 2019-2020 Yenching Academy's Graduate Student Union Executive Committee! The Yenching GSU operates in coordination with the Peking University Graduate Student Union. This year, the team consists of two fourth cohort Yenching Scholars Michael Lee (President, South Korea) and Hana Lord (D...

08 December 2019

On Saturday November 19 2019, Yenching Academy of Peking University embarked on its annual week-long field study to the historic cities of Chengdu and Chongqing.

26 November 2019

On October 23, a delegation from the University of Notre Dame, led by Provost Thomas Burish, visited the Yenching Academy.

24 October 2019

On October 18, the Yenching Academy welcomed a visit from Ambassador Wojciech Zajaczkowski of the Republic of Poland, the first speaker in the Academy's Ambassador Series talks of the 2019-2020 academic year.

23 October 2019

On the afternoon of September 20, the Academy hosted a visiting delegation of scholars from the Accademia Vivarium Novum, an institute of classical languages, literature, ph​ilosophy, and history in Rome. Dean Luigi Miraglia of the Accademia, accompanied by Vice Dean Ignacio Armella Chavez, Prof...

20 September 2019

On the morning of September 5, the 5th Annual Opening Ceremony of Yenching Academy commenced at Peking University's Qiulin auditorium to welcome the newest scholars of 2019 cohort and inaugurate the new academic year.  The program opened with the lyrical and soothing songs played by musicians on ...

06 September 2019