The University's rich history of scholarly collaboration in China dates to the early 1900s. Over the past decade, the University of Chicago has further strengthen its deep intellectual engagement in the region through its Center in Beijing (est. 2010) and the Yuen Campus in Hong Kong (est. 2018). The University's engagement with China is dependent on relationships with key local institutions. UChicago faculty partner with experts to examine contemporary social and scientific issues in modern China through collaborations such as BFI-China, the Report of the State of Children in China, and the Tripartite Collaboration for Advancing Social Work in China, and offer programs such the Executive MBA program and Study Abroad program in Hong Kong.
Kenneth Pomeranz, University Professor of Modern Chinese History in the Department of History and in the College, was recently appointed faculty director of the Hong Kong Faculty Advisory Board for the University of Chicago Francis and Rose Yuen Campus in Hong Kong.
Over a decade of collaboration between the Pritzker School of Medicine and Wuhan University's School of Medicine has led to innovative curricular reforms at Wuhan and a new generation of Chinese medical professionals with close ties to the University of Chicago.
Already, under Professor He’s leadership, BFI-China has launched a highly successful seminar series, COVID-19 and Economics: China, Asia and Beyond. The weekly seminar brings together scholars from the United States, mainland China, Hong Kong, and Singapore to discuss new research on the impacts of COVID-19 on the economy.
The Becker Friedman Institute (BFI) hosted a panel discussion which explored the impact of the coronavirus on the global economy and China's efforts to buy time for the rest of the world to prepare for the coronavirus. Visit BFI-China to discover new insights on the most critical policy challenges facing China today.
The Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago is launching a groundbreaking effort that will combine frontier economics research with key local partnerships to produce tested, scalable policy solutions. Housed at the University of Chicago’s Center in Beijing, EPIC-China will leverage UChicago’s world-class faculty, in addition to researchers on the ground in China.
Chinese officials announced at the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit that the country commenced operations on a small research reactor that was converted to use low-enriched uranium (LEU) fuel in partnership with the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory.
Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (CACM) showcases advanced technologies in the China region ranging from quantum communication, extreme cloud bursting, and leading commercial deployment of autonomous vehicles for delivery and urban infrastructures optimized to first-responders.
The U.S. and China are not only the world’s two largest economies, but also the two most connected. Together, the U.S. and China account for a quarter of the world’s trade. And their trade policies and practices directly impact the world economy by influencing industrial supply chains, financial markets, and world labor markets.
UChicago's SSA has been working with Peking University (PKU) and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) in an ambitious partnership to foster the development of professional social work education and research in China.
Dr. Michael Millis works in collaboration with Chinese Healthcare Institutions to change the organ-transplant system, using a modern approach.
