On November 28, 2025, Yenching Academy welcomed Bruno Angelet, Ambassador of Belgium to China. The event opened with welcoming remarks by Dean Dong Qiang, who emphasized the significance of the ambassador's visit and noted that Belgium has been invited to Yenching Academy twice in recent years. Dean Dong highlighted the ambassador’s distinguished career in Asia, which began in Vietnam,where he became ...

On the evening of November 1, the audience surrendered to the magic of music at B101 in the PKU Second Gymnasium, immersing themselves in the lecture and performance by Yves Henry and meeting Chopin across the span of time and space at Chopin Night at Yenching Academy. Maestro Yves Henry is an Officer of the French Order of Arts and Letters, Professor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique ...

On September 17, Paul G. Pickowicz, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, San Diego, delivered a lecture titled “Shanghai Twenties: In Search of the Modern Marriage” at the Yenching Academy. It was the second lecture in our Topics in China Studies Lecture Series for the 2025‒26 academic year, hosted by YCA Associate Dean Brent Haas.Interview NotesPrior to the ...

During his state visit to the UK in October 2015, President Xi Jinping delivered an important speech entitled “Work Together to Promote Openness, Inclusiveness and Peaceful Development” at  City Hall in the City of London, stressing that China and the UK should, by taking a farsighted and strategic approach, bear openness and inclusiveness in mind, following the principle of win-win cooperation, ...

My name is Will and I am from the southern seaside town of Brighton in the UK. I have the privilege of joining the 11th cohort Yenching scholars specialising in Politics and International Relations.

This will be my first time studying in China – the next chapter in a journey that actually started a decade ago in 2015, when I began teaching myself Mandarin at secondary school. In the intervening ...

RegistrationIn the warm breeze of Beijing’s autumn, the new cohort of Yenching Scholars arrived at Peking University, full of expectations for the coming years. The campus lit up with vitality and sweetness from every single “hello” to every single infectious smile. Together, the new cohort will begin to inscribe their own stories on campus.On September 1, Yenching Academy received its 2025 Cohort ...