July 17, 2025 In May 2025, a team from the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University completed a 16-day visit to China, deepening international partnerships in botanical research and conservation. Supported by the Harvard China Fund, the Arboretum hosted a conference and field excursion for the North American China Plant Exploration Consortium (NACPEC). This trip served […]
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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.
Our summer school program participant Alexandre Benoit (’26) shares his experience in Shanghai.
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.
Harvard China Fund in Action Along a wooded path, Ned Friedman is pointing out trees whose DNA originated in China: “A Chinese ginkgo,” he says, in front of a tree exploding with bright yellow, fan-shaped leaves. “We have one of the finest collections of ginkgoes from China in the world.” And then a rare maple



