Peking University (PKU) is a public university in Haidian,Beijing,China. It is affiliated with and funded by the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211,Project 985,and the Double First-Class Construction. It is also a member in the C9 League.
The School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) is a graduate school of Johns Hopkins University based in Washington,D.C. The school also maintains campuses in Bologna,Italy and Nanjing,China.
National Chengchi University is a public research university in Taipei,Taiwan. The university is also considered as the earliest public service training facility of Taiwan. First established in Nanjing in 1927,the university was subsequently relocated to Taipei and resumed full operation in 1954 as the first re-established "National University" in Taiwan.
James Stapleton Roy is a former senior United States diplomat specializing in Asian affairs. A fluent Chinese speaker,Roy spent much of his career in East Asia,where his assignments included twice in Bangkok,Hong Kong,Taipei,and Beijing,once in Singapore,and Jakarta. He also specialize in Soviet affairs,and had served in Moscow at the height of the Cold War. Roy also served as Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research from 1999 to 2000.
Justin Yifu Lin is a Chinese economist and professor of economics at Peking University. He served as the Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank from 2008 to 2012. He has been appointed as China's State Council Counsellor since September 2013.
William C. Kirby is an American historian and sinologist currently serving as T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard University. He is the chairman of the Harvard China Fund,Faculty Chair of the Harvard Center Shanghai,Harvard's first University-wide center located outside the United States,former Director of Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies,former Chair of the History Department and the former Dean of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Frederic Evans Wakeman Jr. was an American scholar of East Asian history and Professor of History at University of California,Berkeley. He served as president of the American Historical Association and of the Social Science Research Council. Jonathan D. Spence said of Wakeman that he was an evocative writer who chose,"like the novelist he really wanted to be,stories that split into different currents and swept the reader along",adding that he was "quite simply the best modern Chinese historian of the last 30 years".
The Hopkins–Nanjing Center,formally the Johns Hopkins University–Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies,is an international campus of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies and a joint educational venture between Johns Hopkins University and Nanjing University that opened in Nanjing,China,in 1986. Former Hopkins President Steven Muller and former NJU President Kuang Yaming worked together to create the center,recognizing the importance of improved understanding and relations between their respective countries. Muller believed China to be "the country of the future."
Johan 'Hans' van de Ven is an authority on the history of 19th and 20th century China. He holds several positions at the University of Cambridge,where he is Professor of Modern Chinese History,Director in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at St Catharine's College and previously served as Chair of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. He studied sinology at Leiden University. Then,after studying with Susan Naquin at the University of Pennsylvania for a period of time,he moved to Harvard University,where he studied modern Chinese history under Philip Kuhn and received his PhD.
The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale,commonly known as the MacMillan Center,is a research and educational center for international affairs and area studies at Yale University. It is named after Whitney MacMillan and his wife Betty.
Timothy James Brook is a Canadian historian,sinologist,and writer specializing in the study of China (sinology). He holds the Republic of China Chair,Department of History,University of British Columbia.
Joshua A. Fogel is an American-Canadian Sinologist,historian,and translator who specializes in the history of modern China,especially focusing on the cultural and political relations between China and Japan. Before retiring and becoming professor emeritus in 2024,he held a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair at York University in Toronto from 2005. Before that he taught at Harvard University (1981–1988) and the University of California,Santa Barbara (1989–2005). He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Alan Michael Wachman was a scholar of East Asian politics and international relations,specializing in cross-strait relations and Sino-U.S. relations. He was a professor of international politics at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy,Tufts University. Previously he had been the co-director of the Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies in the PRC,and the president of China Institute in America.
Rao Yi is a Chinese neurobiologist. A Ph.D. graduate from the University of California,San Francisco,Rao held a Helen Hay Whitney fellowship at Harvard University and was on the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis and Northwestern University before moving back to China to take up the deanship of Peking University's School of Life Sciences in 2007. He is currently Director and Principal Investigator of IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research at Peking University.
Yang Lien-sheng who often wrote under the name L.S. Yang,was a Chinese-American sinologist and professor at Harvard University. He was the first full-time historian of China at Harvard and a prolific scholar specializing in China's economic history.
The Yenching Academy is a postgraduate college of Peking University,located in Beijing,China. It hosts the Yenching Scholarship,a fully funded prestigious global scholarship program,designed "to cultivate leaders who will advocate for global progress and cultural understanding." The academy offers Yenching Scholars,selected annually from around the world,with full scholarships for one or two years of study leading to a master's degree from Peking University.
The Yenching Program is a postgraduate leadership program at Yenching Academy of Peking University in Beijing,China.
Zhang Qianfan is a constitutional law professor at Peking University Law School,and an activist who advocates constitutionalism in China and has called for China's general political and judicial reform.
Dashdorj Bayarkhuu is a Mongolian research professor,columnist and writer and former ambassador of Mongolia to Egypt. Prior to his nomination to the ambassadorial position,Bayarkhuu worked in media,defense,diplomatic and educational sectors. After his tenure as ambassador in Cairo,Bayarkhuu returned to academic field as a Visiting Professor of International Politics and Contracted Researcher. He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia as Deputy Director,Policy Planning &Co-ordination Department in 2015–2016.
Peking University Law School is a law school of Peking University,a public research university in Beijing,China.
