Congratulations to our second-year students who successfully passed their thesis proposal defense today. At this stage of their academic career, CCSP students need to convince a commission of professors of the relevance and feasibility of their proposed research. This year, our students focused on a broad array of topics. The following are a sample: Consumption [...]
Every semester, the International Students Offices invites our students to join free trips to important sites in China. A group of lucky CCSP students just returned from a trip to Yan'an, one of the birthplaces of modern China. During this 5-day trip, CCSP students visited important historical sites such as the Mausoleum of the Yellow [...]
One year has passed and we are back to the Hanergy Renewable Energy Exhibition Center. Hanergy is a green energy company and is the world’s leading thin-film solar power company. The Chinese company was recently ranked among the top 50 Smartest Companies by the MIT Technology Review. Its exhibition center is located inside Beijing’s Olympic [...]
Today an excited group of CCSP students gathered at the Run Run Shaw Conference Center with hundreds of local students to watch the parade for the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Happy birthday China!
A hot summer in Beijing is over and the Contemporary China Studies Program welcomes its 13th intake of future China Scholars to Renmin University. A total of 30 full-time students – including students from our new double degree program with King’s College London (Double Masters in Asian & European Affairs) – got together today with [...]
The “China’s Grand Strategy” course is composed of a series of lectures (given by experts and researchers from various institutions in China) and visits (to relevant institutions and sights). Each semester, we invite speakers with different expertise to give independent lectures that cover a broad variety of topics. In the past, topics included lectures by [...]
Earlier this month, the popular newspaper People's Daily (Renmin Ribao 人民日报) covered the Contemporary China Studies Program in an interview with students and faculty. Here a brief summary in English along with the original article in Chinese: Renmin University’s Contemporary China Studies Program: International Student Interview with People’s Daily Overseas Edition The Contemporary China Studies [...]
