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Dean Wei LIU Students are required to pass all course examinations and enroll in a Each class will consist of approximately one hundred outstanding Professor of Economics, Ph.D. Peking University The Yenching Academy provides a competitive postgraduate scholar- minimum of 30 credits, comprised of required, elective, and language young people from around the world, with approximately 70% from Executive Vice-President, Peking University ship program. All students receive a fellowship that covers tuition, ac- courses. In order to obtain their degree, students must complete a outside of China, and 30% from mainland China. Associate Dean Bo WANG commodation and living costs. &OREIGN3TUDENTS3TUDENTSFROM(ONG+ONG -ACAO AND master’s thesis and pass the oral defense before a faculty committee. Professor of Philosophy, Ph.D. Peking University 4AIWAN Director, Office of Humanities and Social Science Research, Peking University • Bachelor’s degree in any field Head, Department of Philosophy, Peking University The Yenching Academy offers courses in English. International stu- Please visit the Yenching Academy website, • Preference will be given to those under the age of 26 on August 31, Associate Dean Hongbin CAI dents are encouraged to take courses offered by other departments in http://yenchingacademy.org/, 2016; or under the age of 28 for students from countries with manda- Professor of Economics, Ph.D. Stanford University Chinese if they have the language capability to do so. For Chinese stu- or email us at [email protected] tory military service. Dean, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University dents, English-taught courses must make up at least 75% of their total for more information. #HINESE-AINLAND3TUDENTS Associate Dean John L. HOLDEN required credits. • Chinese students will be admitted according to the regulations of Past President, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations the Ministry of Education. They must be qualified to be exempt from Director of Operations Guohua JIANG the examination based on their mainland Chinese university’s recom- Professor of Accounting, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley mendations. Associate Dean, the Graduate School, Peking University The most numerous Yenching Scholars come from the following universities )NTERNATIONAL!CADEMIC PEKING UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO !DVISORY#OUNCIL HARVARD UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD LEIDEN UNIVERSITY Gerhard CASPER , President Emeritus and Professor Emeritus, Senior Fellow PRINCETON UNIVERSITY STANFORD UNIVERSITY at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON Glyn DAVIS , Vice-Chancellor and Principal, University of Melbourne Elizabeth PERRY , Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government at Harvard Uni- UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN NANJING UNIVERSITY versity and Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute Alison RICHARD , Senior Research Scientist & Professor Emerita, Yale Univer- sity and Vice-Chancellor Emerita, Cambridge University Our first cohort of Yenching scholars are from 57 universities, with the most nu- Ruth SIMMONS , Professor and President Emerita, Brown University SHIH Choon Fong , Professor, National University of Singapore (NUS) and merous coming from Peking University, Oxford, Harvard, Princeton, Cape Town, former President of NUS and of King Abdullah University of Science and Cambridge, Stanford, Chicago, Leiden and Yale. Technology Michael SPENCE , Professor, New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business; Nobel Laureate in Economics They will represent 34 countries and regions, from Armenia and Australia to Viet- Henry YANG , Chancellor, University of California Santa Barbara ZHANG Xudong , Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of East nam and Zimbabwe, and of course, China. Asian Studies, New York University; Cheung Kong Chair Professor of Chinese Literature, Peking University