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.
Jul 18, 2017 When someone says Shanghai, you can’t help but remember the amazing skyline, decorated with skyscrapers that stand as trophies, boasting the city’s rapid development. In the past month, however, I’ve come to learn that the wonders of living in Shanghai can be found all around, starting from the smallest things. My favorite […]
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 I went halfway across the world with the vision of experiencing the Chinese working culture, expecting to see a vastly different management structure and high-flying work style. Of course, I am now working for one of the most forward-thinking, Western organizations in all of China. But that has been a great, unexpected
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
Aug 8, 2017 With a population just slightly north of 2 million, Haikou is actually on the smaller side among cities in China. But you wouldn’t be able to tell by walking around. Although it took some time finding it on a map, I quickly got to experience a bit of what makes Haikou, also
