Get to know our Students at the Contemporary China Studies Program! Klaudija Lipnjak from Croatia is using the extra time on campus brought on by COVID-19 to finalize her graduation thesis research. Thank you for agreeing to this interview! Why don’t you just start off with your name, your background, and a little bit about [...]
Get to know our Students at the Contemporary China Studies Program! Jean-Yves from Canada, who joined the program in 2019, shares his experience as a neighborhood community volunteer during the COVID-19 outbreak. His story was also featured on local social media in Chinese. Why I volunteered to work for my community in Beijing It was [...]
From the team, faculty, and students of the CCSP, we wish you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2020! *pictures from the 2019 end-of-semester dinner party
Renmin University is a fast-growing institution that is currently expanding with new schools in Suzhou and Shenzhen, and a brand new campus in Tongzhou. Instead of looking at the promising future, this afternoon our students took a look back at Renmin University's history and visited the old campus located just a few steps away from [...]
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 [...]
As a key component of the Contemporary China Studies Program, every semester students visit several government organizations, museums, research institutions, enterprises, and rural sites to gain a solid and applied understanding of contemporary China. The second visit of this semester was to the Military Museum of the Chinese People’s Revolution. The exhibit shows restored military [...]
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 [...]
