On May 11th, 2016, Professor Ke Yang, Executive Vice President of Peking University and Foreign Fellow of the U.S. Academy of Medical Science, gave a speech titled “The Development and Challenges of ...

02 August 2016

On May 10th, 2016, Professor Tian Gang, Dean of the Peking University School of Math Science, visited Yenching Academy to give a lecture titled “Peking University and the Development of Mathematics”...

01 August 2016

On April 20th, 2016, Professor Chang Hsin Kang, former President of City University of Hong Kong, gave a lecture at Yenching Academy titled “A Long and Hard Look at China”. In the lecture, which was...

13 July 2016

As this academic year comes to a close and our first cohort of Yenching Scholars part ways, a new chapter of the Academy’s history is just beginning: the Yenching Academy Graduate Student Union. The ...

12 July 2016

On April 11, 2016, Professor Zhang Longxi visited Yenching Academy to chat with Scholars over lunch at an event hosted by Professor Lu Yang. While enjoying lunch in a happy and relaxed atmosphere, Pro...

11 July 2016

China has been a multi-ethnic political polity for over two thousand years. Due to their strategic location and their occupation of some of China's most valuable lands, the border regions (Inner Mongo...

06 July 2016

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