This year’s YCA Olympics, one of Yenching Academy’s student-initiated feature events, kicked off as scheduled from November 7 to 11 as the winter season tiptoed in.

22 November 2022

The 18th Summit of the International Organization of La Francophonie (OIF) congregated in Djerba, Tunisia, November 19–20. More than 30 heads of state and government joined discussions on several issues, including digital development and youth employment.

21 November 2022

Last week, Yenching Academy organized a field study of several sites in Beijing as part of the Academy’s multidisciplinary study and exploration of Chinese society and civilization and China’s place in the rapidly transforming contemporary international system.

18 November 2022

On November 11, Yenching Academy Teaching and Steering Committee members gathered for an annual meeting at the Jingyuan Courtyard 4. The conference aimed to keep YCA staff and advisors up to date and involved in the developments happening and discuss new ideas to advance the quality of the Academ...

17 November 2022

On November 11, Yuan Ming, Honorary Dean of Yenching Academy of Peking University, joined a seminar with students and teachers at the Songjiang Campus of Shanghai International Studies University (SISU).

16 November 2022

Our newly-enrolled Scholars arrived at Peking University and embraced their new life at Yenching Academy. The Scholars were warmly welcomed by our YCA family members, enabling them to settle down in the campus filled with a burst of alluring golden-yellow-hued trees, showers of falling leaves, an...

15 November 2022

In early November 2022, Yenching Academy of Peking University organized several field trips to sites in Beijing: the Ming Tombs, the Palace Museum, the Ancient Architecture Museum, and the Temple of Heaven.

14 November 2022

On November 3rd, YCA Scholars visited Shijing Mountain and the Yunju Temple. In the morning, our Scholars hiked Shijing Mountain, two miles east of the Yunju Temple.

14 November 2022

On October 27, Associate Professor Qin Ling from the School of Archaeology and Museology, Peking University, gave a lecture at Yenching Academy titled “Shaping Order: Jades in Neolithic Liangzhu Society of China and Beyond”. This class was the fourth in the Yenching Academy’s compulsory “Chin...

03 November 2022

On October 20, Professor Cheng Lesong from the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Peking University, delivered a lecture at Yenching Academy entitled “Facets of Daoism: From Immortality to Daily Life”, as part of the Topics in China Studies Lecture Series for the 2022 Fall Semester...

24 October 2022