Harvard China Student Internship program participant Ricardo Skewes shares his experience interning at PwC Shanghai, living in China, and mastering his Mandarin skills.
Our Impact
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.
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.
Stories
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.
In 2008, professors at the Harvard Law School Project on Disability received a faculty grant to support their work in China. With the help of Dr. Fengming Cui, the Project has played an essential role in advancing Chinese disability laws, policies, and education.
With the support of Harvard China Fund’s “(Re)engaging China” grant, Szonyi arrived in China in August 2023 after an almost four-year absence, the longest in my professional career and indeed my adult life. Szonyi has been based at Xiamen University, where he studied as a graduate student and where he continues to collaborate with the Center for Local Historical Documents. He’s been working on two main projects.
Harvard China Fund in Action: (Re)engage with China Grant Recipient, Peter K. Bol, Charles H Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations November 21, 2023 In late October and November, as part of the initiatives by the Harvard China Fund and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies to reengage activities in China, the China
“We wanted to create an experience that is awesome, beyond words,” says Eugene Wang, Abby Aldrich Professor of Asian Art at Harvard University. “We are using modern technology to capture multiple dimensions, to help us imagine a universe in which everything can transform into something else.”
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