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Addressing Challenges in U.S.-China Financial Systems: Q&A with PIFS
Since 2017, Harvard China Fund has been supporting the Program on International Financial Systems (PIFS) in its research and conferences on U.S.-China financial systems. Each year, PIFS convenes one of the most important international symposia on U.S.-China financial relations, bringing together senior policymakers, financial sector executives, and academics to foster dialogue on the two countries’…
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Microscopes, Mandarin, and Lifelong Memories: My Research Assistantship in Shanghai
Abigail Hudson ’29, one of our 2026 Research Assistantship participants, fulfilled a “lifelong dream” of traveling to China while counting algae in water samples she collected from the East China Sea this past summer.
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Bringing Fujian’s Rural History to Life, One Document at a Time
A group of Harvard graduate students cluster around Jin Huaxia, the 33-year old Communist Party Secretary of Yuhu (Jade Pond), a village in the Fujian countryside, as he proudly shares his history. Standing in the Jin family’s ancestral hall, where villagers have gathered for rituals—from New Year’s celebrations to funerals—over hundreds of years, Jin explains…
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Discovering China Again in Shanghai
Our summer school program participant Stephanie Kai (’28) shares her experience taking two Harvard courses in Shanghai.
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?
