China Studies in Beijing
China Studies in Beijing is a study abroad program operated in collaboration with the Bing Overseas Studies Program (BOSP) and centered at the Stanford Center at Peking University (SCPKU). The program runs during Spring Quarter.
This program aims to provide students with a fundamental understanding of China’s role in the global system and the various factors that brought the country to where it is today. By attending lectures in English from Stanford faculty who are top experts in the field of China Studies, it offers students the opportunity to learn about Chinese politics, policies, and challenges while living in Beijing. Undergraduate participants gain the opportunity to experience China's cultural exchange and gain insights into the forces that shape the world’s second-largest economy.
China Studies in Beijing welcomes up to 20 Stanford undergraduates to join us in Beijing during Stanford's Spring Quarter. Appliations will open in the fall and will be accepted through Nov 2024. To learn more and access the program application, visit BOSP's webpage here.
View an information session recording here. Must use your Stanford credentials to log in.
For more information about BOSP programs worldwide, please visit bosp.stanford.edu.
Professor Jean Oi
Jean C. Oi is the William Haas Professor of Chinese Politics in the Department of Political Science and a Senior Fellow of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University. A Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Michigan, she directs the China Program at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center and is the Lee Shau Kee Director of the Stanford Center at Peking University. She also is the current President of the Association for Asian Studies.
Professor Scott Rozelle
Scott Rozelle is the Helen F. Farnsworth Senior Fellow and the co-director of Stanford Center on China's Economy and Institutions in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research at Stanford University. He received his BS from the University of California, Berkeley, and his MS and PhD from Cornell University. Previously, Rozelle was a professor at the University of California, Davis and an assistant professor in Stanford’s Food Research Institute and department of economics.
Professor Andrew Walder
Andrew G. Walder is the Denise O’Leary and Kent Thiry Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University, where he is a member of the Department of Sociology and a Senior Fellow at FSI. He has previously taught at Columbia, Harvard, and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He has published widely on political economy, social structure, inequality, social mobility, and political conflict under state socialism and afterwards, with a special emphasis on contemporary China. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, former Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral and Social Sciences, and a past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. His most recent books are Fractured Rebellion: The Beijing Red Guard Movement (2009), and China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed (2015).
Starting in Fall 2024, students can submit an application to the China Studies in Beijng Program through the BOSP Application Portal.
Stanford Center at Peking University
The Stanford Center at Peking University (SCPKU) is located in Beijing's dynamic Haidian District on the Peking University campus. SCPKU brings academic and educational connections together between established scholars and young researchers from the U.S. to East Asia in order to foster a vibrant network of intellectual exchange and collaboration.