Everything is at its prime in July on campus, where the parting songs of graduates linger in the air.Graduating Yenching Scholars are bidding farewell to one another and the campus amidst drizzles.On July 4, Yenching Academy held the 2023 Graduation and Degree Awarding Ceremony at B101, Second Gy...
04 July 2023
On May 17, Zhang Taisu, Professor of Yale Law School, taught a Topics in China Studies Lecture Series class at Yenching Academy titled “The Ideological Foundations of Qing Taxation.” Hosted by Assistant Dean Brent Haas, the lecture, which focused on Prof. Zhang’s new book that bears the same t...
19 June 2023
On May 30, 2023, the Irish Ambassador to China, Her Excellency Dr. Ann Derwin, visited Yenching Academy of Peking University and delivered a talk to Yenching Scholars on “Women in Diplomacy.” Amb. Derwin was accompanied by a delegation from the Irish Embassy in China, including Sarah Finn, a me...
08 June 2023
After one and a half years since my virtual exchange at Peking University, the moment finally arrived: I was coming to China! In the summer before the start of the program, Yenching Academy sent the incoming Scholars an email which caught us all by surprise: China was again opening up for interna...
02 June 2023
The Yenching Academy of Peking University introduces its ninth cohort: 116 outstanding young Scholars who will enroll in the interdisciplinary China Studies Master's program this September. The Scholars hail from 31 countries and regions; 85 international students will come together with 31 Chine...
01 June 2023
On May 19, a group of 13 YCA teachers and students visited the APCO Beijing Office. Our Scholars gained valuable insight into the consultancy business through panel discussions on specific cases and engaging conversations with senior APCO staff.Senior APCO workers Shan Shuang and Yuan Yining warm...
26 May 2023
On May 10, Prof. Tong Shijun, Chancellor of Shanghai New York University (NYU Shanghai), delivered a lecture titled “Bertrand Russell’s Problem of China (1922) and its Three Chinese Readers: Liang Shuming, Lu Xun and Mao Zedong” as part of the Topics in China Lectures Series for the 2022/2023 ...
17 May 2023
Clothes, light as gauze, are blown by the spring breeze; High, go spirits, in dance.Yenching Scholars had a two-day dance workshop on May 12–13, led by Tian Qing, a Peking University Primary School dancer-teacher and scene director for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. At the invitation of the Y...
17 May 2023
Amanda Cassano (2022 cohort, United States) received her B.A. in 2022 from Bowdoin College, where she majored in Economics and Asian Studies with a concentration in China Studies. She is a 2021 graduate of the Princeton in Beijing Summer Language program and a 2022 recipient of the U.S. State Dep...
16 May 2023
Want to know what life is like being a Yenching Scholar and living in the on-campus Shaoyuan dormitory? Look no further. Our Residential Advisors have created a 4-part video series sharing their insights on the subjects.Our RAs, Daniel Tafelski (Germany), Bella Tseeva (Russia and Portugal), Jorge...
16 May 2023
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