By Mary Schulman On Thursday afternoon, October 13, 2016, the Scholars in the Yenching Academy course Women in Contemporary China visited the Haidian District Activities Center for Women and Children....

19 October 2016

The Yenching Academy of Peking University is now accepting applications for the 2017 cohort from international candidates and candidates from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. In the coming months, John Ho...

28 September 2016

John L. Holden, Associate Dean of the Yenching Academy of Peking University, was interviewed byThe Diplomaton August 20, 2016. During the interview, Mr. Holden spoke about the upcoming United States p...

21 September 2016

These nominated candidates qualify for exemption from the graduate entrance examination based on their Mainland Chinese universities' recommendations. 北京大学燕京学堂2017年推免复试通知 根据北京大学研...

19 September 2016

On September 10, 2016, the Yenching Academy at Peking University held its second annual Opening Ceremony to officially launch the academic year and inaugurate the new cohort of Yenching Scholars. The ...

16 September 2016

Ever since the beginning of the reform and opening up period (1979), China's meteoric but uneven economic growth has led urban household per capita income to more than triple that in rural areas, givi...

01 September 2016

The Yenching Academy of Peking University is now recruiting its third cohort of Scholars, which will matriculate in Fall 2017. Today, the Academy opens its application system to international candidat...

15 August 2016

On August 8, 2016, Professor Cheng Pei-kai, the President of Chinese Culture Institute of Our Hong Kong Foundation, led a delegation of secondary school principals to visit Yenching Academy. Pofessor ...

12 August 2016

On July 27, 2016, at the closing ceremony of the 21st World Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association, Professor Zhang Longxi, Distinguished Professor at Yenching Academy, was n...

08 August 2016

On June 1st, 2016, Professor Lyu Zhi of the Peking University School of Life Sciences, Director of the Center for Environmental Protection and Social Development, gave a lecture at Peking University t...

03 August 2016