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Yenching () can refer to: * Beijing ("Yenching" is an older, alternative name of the city) * Yenching Academy **Yenching Scholars **Yenching Program * Harvard–Yenching Institute * CCC Yenching College * Yenching University Yenching University () was a Private university, private research university in Beijing, China, from 1919 to 1952. The university was formed out of the merger of four Christian colleges between the years 1915 and 1920. The term "Yenching" come ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beijing
Beijing, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital city of China. With more than 22 million residents, it is the world's List of national capitals by population, most populous national capital city as well as China's List of cities in China by population, second largest city by urban area after Shanghai. It is located in North China, Northern China, and is governed as a Direct-administered municipalities of China, municipality under the direct administration of the Government of the People's Republic of China, State Council with List of administrative divisions of Beijing, 16 urban, suburban, and rural districts.Figures based on 2006 statistics published in 2007 National Statistical Yearbook of China and available online at archive. Retrieved 21 April 2009. Beijing is mostly surrounded by Hebei Province and neighbors Tianjin to the southeast; together, the three divisions form the Jing-Jin-Ji, Jing-Jin-Ji cluster. Beijing is a global city and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yenching Academy
The Yenching Academy (YCA, also Yanjing Academy or Yanjing College; zh, 燕京学堂, pinyin: Yānjīng Xuétáng) 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. Inspired by the classical Chinese academies or ''shuyuan'' and the Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford University, Yenching Academy at Peking University will compete with the younger Schwarzman College program at Tsinghua University in China and similar global scholarship programs around the world. Yenching Scholarship The Yenching Scholarship program is a two-year fully funded global leadership program designed to provide o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yenching Scholars
The Yenching Scholarship (also Yanjing Scholars; Chinese: 燕京学者, pinyin: Yānjīng Xuézhě) is a selective interdisciplinary graduate program at the Yenching Academy of Peking University ( PKU) in Beijing, China. The program, started in 2015, will provide Yenching Scholars, selected annually from around the world, with full scholarships for a two-years master's degree from Peking University. The program hosts in its own purpose-built residential college and is designed to cultivate leaders who will advocate for global progress and cultural understanding. Inspired by the classical Chinese academies known as ''Shūyuàn'' and the Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford University (Yenching Academy is called ''Yānjīng Xuétáng'' in Chinese, translated directly as Yanjing College), Yenching Academy at Peking University will compete with Schwarzman Scholars at Tsinghua University in China and similar global scholarship programs around the world. It is the first such program to lau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yenching Program
The Yenching Program ( aka: Yenching Scholars Program) is a postgraduate program at the Yenching Academy of Peking University in Beijing, China. Launched in 2015, it offers a Master's degree in China Studies. The program aims to cultivate leaders with a nuanced understanding of China and its role in the world. Studies Yenching Scholarships cover tuition, accommodation, transportation, and a living stipend for all students admitted to the Academy. Every year, scholars from across the globe are selected through an admissions process. The program's duration is one year, which is shorter than most graduate master's programs in China, where professional degrees usually require two years of study, while academic degrees generally take three years. Scholars may choose to extend their studies for a second year or pursue doctoral studies at Peking University. The liberal undergraduate Yuanpei Program at Yuanpei College offers comparable opportunities for Peking University undergraduates. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvard–Yenching Institute
The Harvard–Yenching Institute is an independent foundation dedicated to advancing higher education in Asia in the humanities and social sciences, with special attention to the study of Asian culture. It traditionally had close ties to Harvard University and the now-defunct Yenching University, and its offices are located on the Harvard campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but it is not part of Harvard. History The Harvard–Yenching Institute (HYI) was founded in 1928 by Yenching University President John Leighton Stuart with funding provided solely from the estate of Charles Martin Hall, the inventor of a process for refining aluminum and the founder of the Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA). Although the institute has close ties with Harvard University, it is a legally and fiscally independent public charitable trust. Hall's charge to the trustees of his estate was to promote higher education in Asia, and to that end the trustees of his estate partnered with Harvard Unive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CCC Yenching College
The Church of Christ in China Yenching College (), or CCC Yenching College, Yenching College () in short is a co-education secondary school in Nga Ying Chau of Tsing Yi Island, Hong Kong. The school is managed by The Hong Kong Council of the Church of Christ in China. The secondary school was founded by alumni and teaching staff from Yenching University in Peking after the campus and some alumni was forced to incorporate in Peking University by Mao Zedong's Chinese Communist Party The Communist Party of China (CPC), also translated into English as Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the founding and One-party state, sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Founded in 1921, the CCP emerged victorious in the ... in 1952. The founders hoped that the school would restore to the university someday. In 1977, they reused an old building of South Sok Uk Government Primary School () and established a secondary school in So Uk Estate. They named it Yenching College. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
