For students of modern economics, the economic rise for China since 1979 is one of the most important events in recent human history. Before 1979, the Chinese economy was defined by isolation – expor...

01 July 2016

On June 24th 2016, Yenching Academy’s International Academic Advisory Board (IAAB) held its annual meeting at Peking University. Members of this board, which advises the dean on academic structure an...

30 June 2016

On June 17, 2016, His Excellency Manuel Valencia, Ambassador of The Kingdom of Spain to the People’s Republic of China, was the special guest of the Ambassador Speaker Series event at Yenching Academ...

29 June 2016

On June 14th, 2016, Yenching Academy hosted its End of the Year Celebration for the 2015 – 2016 academic year. Dean Yuan Ming, Associate Dean John Holden, Director of Academics Lu Yang, Director of O...

27 June 2016

On May 20th, 2016, after a packed schedule of Chinese language and China studies courses, 30 Yenching Academy faculty, staff and students embarked on a journey to Sichuan. This field study trip, led b...

24 June 2016

By Yenching Scholar Mary Schulman Zhejiang Province has long held a special place in classical Chinese culture. Its spectacular natural beauty—emerald green forests and mountains shrouded in mist—ha...

23 June 2016

By Yenching Scholars Daniel Khalessi and Jackson Lok-Tin Tse On May 20th, 2016, faculty and staff of the Yenching Academy (YCA) led twenty-four Yenching Scholars to Shenzhen, one of China’s epicenter...

22 June 2016

By Yenching Scholar Ilina Anastasiia As our plane landed in Yinchuan, our first impression was surprise at the new landscape in front of us. The 25 Scholars traveling to the Ningxia Autonomous Region ...

21 June 2016

On June 7, Yenching Scholar Hannah Mullen participated in the Plenary Session of the 7th Annual U.S. - China High-Level Consultation on People-to-People Exchange. The U.S. – China Strategic and Econo...

15 June 2016

Professor He Yafei will be lecturing at Peking University on June 15 as part of the Yenching Academy of Peking University’s China Studies Lecture Series. He Yafei is a Distinguished Professor of Yenc...

13 June 2016