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.
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 […]
This past summer, I experienced tremendous personal growth during my first-ever (remote) internship for a non-profit persons with disabilities organization that focuses on disability rights, inclusion, and equal participation of persons with disabilities. As someone who had never experienced the hardships of a disabled individual, I feared that my implicit bias would prevent me from
In this turbulent summer, I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to intern on-site at my host company’s Shanghai office with 16 other interns from prominent universities all around the globe. This experience gave me a taste of consulting and a precious chance to interact with outstanding mentors and peers from whom I gained
Summer 2020 was unprecedented for the Harvard China Fund in which many of our internships were shifted virtually in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, this shift did not stop our interns from growing, learning, and maturing in their professional endeavors. Today, we hear from Elizabeth Yang, ’23, about her virtual internship experience this past
As a native of Beijing, I have seldom ventured to the business and financial district of Guomao (国贸), an area of connected shopping malls and office buildings, home to some of the most influential companies’ Chinese operations in the world. It was natural to wonder what exactly happens on those upper floors aside from a
Oct 11, 2019 Children. Innovation. Limitless. These three words encapsulate my experience at my host organization in China. As an intern, I didn’t expect much beyond sitting at a desk and staring at my screen. I was wrong. This past week, I was offered the opportunity to help plan, develop, and execute an Innovation Summer
