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.
Aug 26, 2016 Hello! My name is Chris. I am a sophomore in Currier and spent the summer working at F.O.G Capital & Asset Management in Shanghai. F.O.G is a new business that intends to focus on real estate management and investment. When I first walked into its office and for the first week, I […]
Aug 30, 2016 When the plane landed in Shanghai, I didn’t really know how to feel. I was about to spend the longest amount of time I had ever spent alone abroad. I had been to China before, and I had studied Chinese, but I had never tried to actually be productive in Chinese. Arriving
Jul 10, 2017 It was not an easy decision trying to figure out how I would best spend the summer after my fast-paced and hectic freshman year at Harvard. I wanted something that would be relaxing and allow for introspection, but also enriching either academically or socially. I finally settled on Harvard China Fund’s Chinese
Jul 20, 2017 To describe living and working in Shanghai this past summer, the phrase 大开眼界 (expanding one’s horizons) instantly comes to mind. Whether navigating the Shanghai subway, dining with co-workers, or jogging along the Bund, I have been amazed by the daily eye-opening experiences that have accompanied my participation in the Harvard China Student
Jul 28, 2017 Taiwan is a small island off of the coast of China with over 23.55 million people. Taiwan is known for its iconic Taipei 101 tower, its night markets, its semiconductor dominance, and it’s political positioning with mainland China. It’s easy to list facts about a country, but actually residing in a country
Aug 1, 2017 The realization started with a search for peanut butter and fruit preserves. After two weeks of exclusively eating Chinese food, I will admit that I was feeling a little homesick and missed the classic PB&J that I so often took for granted in the states. These yearnings prompted me to go to
