On April 25, the YCA Library hosted an informal discussion over tea with Professor Zhang Longxi to celebrate this year’s World Book and Copyright Day. Professor Zhang delivered a literary lecture titled “Potion and Poison: Chinese and Shakespearean Dialectics,” in which he explored themes of h...

30 April 2025

On April 25, YCA students and teachers visited the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Liaison Office in China.IOM China Chief of Mission Ms. Li Wen warmly welcomed the YCA team and offered a brief overview of the organization’s mandate and key priorities. She explained that IOM, as a...

29 April 2025

Each April 23rd, UNESCO's World Book and Copyright Day reminds us how books connect minds across time and space. For this milestone 30th anniversary, eight Yenching Scholars reveal the books that changed their thinking and the reading habits that fuel their curiosity.At Yenching Academy, we're bu...

23 April 2025

The Think Asia Forum 2025 was held on April 15 in Singapore. During the opening ceremony, Prof. Dong Qiang, Dean of the Yenching Academy, joined historian Wang Gungwu in a special dialogue that explored how Asian wisdom can inform global governance. The 50-minute English-language dialogue was mod...

21 April 2025

On April 17, the Yenching Global Symposium (YGS) 2025 officially kicked off at the Hainan Lingshui Li’an International Education and Innovation Pilot Zone.As a flagship event initiated and organized by Yenching Scholars, YGS provides emerging global leaders with a space for cross-cultural dialog...

17 April 2025

On Friday, Yenching Academy had the honor of welcoming Professor Romano Prodi, Former President of the European Commission (1999-2004) and Former Prime Minister of Italy (1996-1998; 2006-2008), for his second visit to our institution. Joining the discussion online was Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Former...

15 March 2025

Dean Dong Qiang of Yenching Academy was invited to give a lecture at the National Guimet Museum of Asia Arts (Musée Guimet) in Paris on January 25. After the lecture, Prof Dong and Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature, participated in a discussion and signing...

30 January 2025

Hi! I am Tokuyu Ko from Japan.To say that writing my China story is tantamount to writing my life story is not an exaggeration at all. I am a Japanese citizen born in Kanagawa (a prefecture next to Tokyo), while, as some people might guess from my name, I am a second-generation Chinese immigrant ...

08 January 2025

On December 11, H.E. Djoomart Otorbaev, former Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan and former President of the School of International Relations and Diplomacy at Kyrgyz National University, visited Yenching Academy along with a delegation. They met with YCA Dean Dong Qiang, Associate Dean Brent Haas, an...

12 December 2024

On December 4, Madeleine Yue Dong, Professor in the History Department and the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, delivered a lecture titled “Feeding Socialist Beijing, 1956.” This was the sixth lecture in the China Studies Lecture Series for the 2...

12 December 2024