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We offer opportunities for students and faculty to explore Greater China.
Our Impact
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Fieldwork Reimagined: Insights from the Landscape Colloquium
Gareth Doherty, an Associate Professor at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, received a Faculty Conference Grant to host a colloquium surrounding Landscape Architecture at Harvard Center Shanghai in 2024. The colloquium has played an essential role in facilitating cross-cultural communications as well as promoting fieldwork practices in the field of Landscape Architecture.
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Summer in the Gateway to China, Shanghai
Our summer school program participant Alexandre Benoit (’26) shares his experience in Shanghai.
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Navigating New Perspectives: My Transformative Experience of Disability Advocacy and Cultural Discovery in China
Our internship program participant Dian Yu (’26) shares her experience this past summer interning at One Plus One Group in Shanghai, a disability rights non-profit.
Harvard Greater China Student Internship Program
Experience modern China through an internship placement. Gain an introduction to Chinese culture. Learn first-hand about life in the workplace.
A Scholar’s Journey Through Rural China’s History.
Professor Michael Szonyi reflects on his first trip back to China in four years.
Empires of Ideas
New Book by Professor William Kirby
In “Empires of Ideas”: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China, Professor William C. Kirby, Chairman of the Harvard China Fund, examines the history of higher education, from Germany to the United States and China.
Kirby notes that U.S. universities dominate global rankings today, but also raises an intriguing question: Will China’s innovative educational centers challenge U.S. primacy?
