Distinguished guests,Dear colleagues,Dear scholars, parents and friends, good morning everyone!Today we gather in the peak of graduation season to bid farewell to the graduates of the 2024 cohort of Yenching Academy. Your time at Yenching Academy has quietly come to an end, and a brand-new, bound...

06 July 2026

On June 6, the 2026 YCA Faculty Symposium was held at Jingyuan Courtyard 3. Over 20 teaching faculty members and dissertation supervisors from within and outside Peking University attended the meeting, joined by Dean Dong Qiang, Associate Deans Fan Shiming and Brent Haas, Director of Graduate Stu...

24 June 2026

On June 12, the 2026 Hehe Civilization Forum, co-hosted by the International Confucian Association (ICA) and Tashkent State University of Oriental Studies (TSUOS), was held in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, under the theme of “The Wisdom of Harmony and Cooperation and High-Quality Developm...

22 June 2026

One might see Andrew Rule reading by a window at the Peking University Library at an ordinary afternoon. Andrew is a member of the 2024 Cohort of Yenching Academy and an honoree of PKU’s 2025 Weiming Reading Star Award. He always feels at home with the Chinese literature when he is in the librar...

18 June 2026

Yenching Academy held the tenth Yenching Global Symposium (YGS 2026) from April 16 to 19.YGS 2026 Harnessing Momentum: The Power to Act in a Changing World explored topics on international relations, technology, and culture, to meld minds from diverse cultural and academic backgrounds and navigat...

27 May 2026

Reading is undergoing subtle changes as the digital wave surges. When page flipping gives more ground to screen swiping, humans reshape, with AI tools, their reading. On the 31st World Book Day, Yenching Scholars from different countries told their stories of reading and how they engaged with AI-...

29 April 2026

On April 22, Da Wei, Director of the Centre for Strategy and Security and concurrently professor in the Department of International Relations, School of Social Sciences at Tsinghua University, delivered a lecture titled “China-US Relations: Resilience and New Possibility” at the Yenching Academ...

27 April 2026

On April 15, Xu Long, a member of Club des Chefs des Chefs (CCC) delivered a lecture titled “The Flavours of the Silk Road: Explore Chinese Culinary Art with a Master Chef” at Yenching Academy. In addition to the distinguished CCC membership, Chef Xu, who served as the Western Cuisine Executive...

17 April 2026

On March 18, a Durham University delegation, led by the university’s vice-chancellor Professor Karen O’Brien, paid a visit to the Yenching Academy. YCA Dean Dong Qiang received the delegation at Jingyuan Courtyard 3. Professor Zhang Longxi, Li De Chair Professor at Yenching Academy, attended th...

20 March 2026

The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference was held from March 12‒15 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Over 3,000 Asian studies scholars and professionals from research institutions and universities around the globe were brought together, to delve into a wide array of topics...

16 March 2026