From June 26 to July 4, the inaugural World Young Sinologists Summer Institute was held at Yenching Academy, Peking University. The event was jointly organized by Peking University’s One Thousand Books in One Century Academic Classics Translation Project and Yenching Academy, with the aim of cul...

11 September 2026

China in Transition is a compulsory course at Yenching Academy. It focuses on development and changes in contemporary China, while remaining grounded in the distinct historical context in the country. Within concentrations of economy, politics & law, society & culture, and environment, the interd...

10 September 2026

On the morning of August 19, a delegation headed by Ren Youqun, member of the CPC Leading Group and Vice Minister of the Ministry of Education conducted a field visit to Yenching Academy. The delegation was accompanied by Gao Song, President of Peking University (PKU) and a Member of the Chinese ...

10 September 2026

As another summer steals into the Peking University campus, verdant trees cast shadows over campus paths and the melody of the Peking University alma mater resonates in the air.On the morning of July 2, Yenching Academy held its 2026 Graduation Ceremony at Qiulin Auditorium. Together with parents...

26 August 2026

On this happy morning, as I look into the young faces of this year's Yanjingxuetang graduates, I must say you are looking good, very good indeed. And as an educator, it gives me enormous pride to have been part of your Beida experience. As a faculty member at Beida, I have since the introduction ...

07 July 2026

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