The Harvard China Fund supports scholarship and academic exchange between Harvard and Chinese researchers, with projects ranging from collaboration on China’s disabilities system to cutting edge research on climate change, partnerships focused on modernizing China’s medical system, and legal reform.
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.
From student internships and summer school to faculty grants supporting cross-cultural academic exchange and U.S.-China collaboration, Harvard China Fund is working to promote dialogue and deeper U.S.-China understanding.
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’ […]
Jonathan Yang ‘28, a 2026 research assistantship program participant, gained first-hand experience carrying out real wet-lab tasks with teammates who didn’t all speak a common language.
Jacob Kiflu ’29, a 2026 Summer School participant, set out for Shanghai seeking solitude and time behind his camera. Instead, he found eight close friends who pushed him to try new foods, travel across China, and keep creating, while his coursework on China’s economic rise reshaped how he sees the world.
Melissa Lu ‘29, a 2026 research assistantship program participant, spent her first-ever summer in China building sensors and studying how the compounds we exhale could signal health conditions like diabetes and insomnia, while sharpening her Chinese with volunteers in the lab.
Zaid Ahmed ’29, a Computer Science and Economics student, attended our 2026 summer school program in Shanghai. In this article, he shares with us how a search for halal food in Chongqing turned into his favorite memory of the summer.
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.
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
