Global Harvard: Asia

Travel anywhere through a world increasingly interwoven by the Internet, commerce, and fellowship, and chances are that Harvard is there, whether through established programs and offices, or in the guise of field researchers, alumni leaders, and touring students. Here is a sampling of those myriad connections.

  • Nation & World

    Harvard in Beijing

    During a historic visit to Beijing, Harvard President Drew Faust delivered the Tsinghua Global Vision Lecture, “Universities and the Challenge of Global Climate Change,” to faculty and students at Tsinghua…

  • Science & Tech

    Colleges have ‘special’ role in fighting climate change

    Harvard President Drew Faust tells an audience at Tsinghua University in Beijing that universities have a unique and critical role to play in combatting climate change.

  • Campus & Community

    A celebration in Beijing

    Harvard President Drew Faust joined more than 430 alumni, faculty, and friends in Beijing on Sunday to celebrate the University’s long and growing ties to China.

  • Nation & World

    Cultivating community in Shanghai

    Kate McFarlin, president of the Harvard Club of Shanghai, wears her dual enthusiasms for Harvard and China on her sleeve.

  • Nation & World

    Holistically Crimson

    Shaw Chen, treasurer of the Harvard Club of Shanghai, learned a lot from the College’s East Asian studies classes, but got plenty of experience outside the classroom as well.

  • Nation & World

    With nature in mind

    Kongjian Yu, who received a doctor of design degree from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design in 1995, espouses an environmental design ethic that considers natural processes on a site first. Since 2010, he has guided GSD students through the problems related to China’s rapid urbanization.

All from this series

  • Harvard in Japan

    As President Drew Faust becomes the eighth Harvard president to visit Japan, faculty members are sending back dispatches about cultural and historical aspects of her visit.

  • Plant diversity, altitude leave collectors breathless in China

    China’s Hengduan Mountains are a biodiversity hotspot; so the Harvard Herbaria’s Dave Boufford and a team of colleagues went there and discovered 30 new species.