Yenching Academy of Peking University was founded in May 2014. Over the past eight years, we have met young Chinese and international students who demonstrate a talent for leadership and global vision. Likewise, we have grown during this period, thanks to the tireless efforts of our young staff, ...

04 May 2022

The semester’s first Young Professionals’ Series lecture was held on April 15. Yenching Academy invited Gloria Ai, bilingual anchorwoman at financial and economic events, founder of iAsk, and March 8th Red-Banner Pacesetter, to tell her story as a PKU and Harvard alumnus and successful CCTV anc...

26 April 2022

It’s the best time in the Yanyuan Garden,With delightful scenery outside windows.It’s the best time to immerse in the scent of books,Bathed in spring warmth and breeze.We organized an online “shared reading” session to celebrate this year’s World Book and Copyright Day. Although physically d...

22 April 2022

The 2022 Yenching Global Symposium (YGS) was held online and on the Peking University campus between April 8 and 10. A lineup of 178 YGS delegates from 60 countries and regions sat in the three-day Symposium, discussing issues about globalization together with Yenching Scholars and alumni. The 20...

15 April 2022

On Friday, April 8, the 2022 Yenching Global Symposium themed “Globalisation or Guóbalisation? Internationalism in Flux” kicked off with the opening ceremony held at the Jingyuan Courtyard 3 of the Peking University campus and online. In attendance were Prof. Dong Qiang, Dean of Yenching Academ...

08 April 2022

On March 31, Gordon Liu, Professor of Economics at Peking University National School of Development (NSD), taught the first Topics in China Studies Lecture Series class of the 2021/2022 Spring semester titled “The Baumol Cost Disease in Healthcare and Post-pandemic Economy.” Prof. Lu Yang, Yenc...

06 April 2022

In March 2022, the Yenching Academy of Peking University established the Lide Chair Professorship Fund, with a 20 million RMB generous donation from PKU alumni couple Li Ge and Zhao Ning, both B.Sc. ’85 from the Department of Chemistry and honorary  trustees of Peking University.

25 March 2022

On March 10, the Professional and Leadership Mentor Program 2022 kicked off at the Yenching Academy, with YCA Dean Prof. Dong Qiang, Associate Deans Prof. Fang Shiming and Associate Prof. Brent Haas, and seven high-profile individuals from different sectors meeting our Scholars online.

17 March 2022

Looking EastwardA series of choices I made during my undergraduate culminated in my decision to study in China. As a student majoring in International Relations, the extensiveness of IR produced a sweet and sour feeling; I sometimes felt I knew a little about many things but a lot about nothing. ...

15 March 2022

Editor’s note: On March 7, CGTN Français had a video interview with Professor Dong Qiang, Dean of the Yenching Academy of Peking University. Prof. Dong discussed his thoughts on the Olympic Manifesto and the Olympic spirit proposed by Pierre de Coubertin, who is considered the founder of the mod...

09 March 2022