Route Two: From July 5 to July 19, 2025, the second cohort will visit Beijing, Yinchuan and Zhongwei (in Ningxia Province), Xi’an (in Shaanxi Province), and Chengdu (in Sichuan Province)
Participants should plan to arrive at PKU on July 5, 2025.
Route One: From June 26 to July 10, 2025, the first cohort will visit Beijing, Suzhou (in Jiangsu Province), Hangzhou (in Zhejiang Province), and Shanghai
Participants should plan to arrive at PKU on June 26, 2025.
Program Highlights
Beijing
Lectures by PKU professors on China’s development and globalization.
The application for the 2025 Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities is now OPEN. Interested students from all institutions within the U.S. and abroad must complete the online application form below, which contains a description of the paper topic and its significance (up to 250 words) and a short bio (up to 100 words including current institutional affiliation). Please note that proposals should address primary sources and current scholarship related to their paper topic. Applicants are welcome to present papers associated with ongoing or projected...
Xiaojie Ma (马晓洁) manages the Center for Chinese Studies' programs, lectures and conferences and administrative matters. She holds a B.A. in English from University of International Business and Economics, and a Master's Degree in Pacific International Affairs from University of California, San Diego, with a career track of International Management. Prior to joining the CCS team, she served as the Program Manager from 2008-2012, and Assistant Director from 2013-2018 at the UCLA Confucius Institute, working on connecting the dots, filling the gaps and tapping into the tremendous resources...
Chloe Qiu (邱灿融) is an undergraduate at UC Berkeley, pursuing a double major in Japanese Language and Data Science. Her academic interests encompass modern Chinese literature, culture, and media.
Clara So (苏芷昕) is an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley majoring in Chinese and Psychology. Her academic interests include premodern and modern Chinese language and literature, as well as developmental psychology and early childhood education.
The Center for Chinese Studies Working Group program is in support of research in the humanities and the social sciences, and provide opportunities for smaller groups of Berkeley faculty and advanced graduate students to share their research in progress, garner thoughtful and detailed feedback on papers or grants, brainstorm new projects, and discuss the latest published research related to their working group.
The Working Group awards range from $250-$750 for the academic year. New Working Groups have one full year to use the award funds. The funds can be used...
