Co-hosted by Yale Club of Beijing and Yale Center Beijing 

Event Time

Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Registration

6:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Opening Remarks

7:00 pm – 7:05 pm

*Emily Erikson, Joseph C. Fox Academic Director of the Fox International Fellowship & Professor of Sociology, Yale University, will deliver the opening remarks via video.

Presentations

7:05 pm – 7:30 pm

Scholar Dialogue

7:30 pm – 7:45 pm

Q&A

7:45 pm – 8:00 pm

Location

Yale Center Beijing 
36th Floor Tower B of IFC Building 8 Jianguomenwai Avenue Chaoyang District, Beijing (Yong'anli Subway Station, Exit C) 

Registration and Fees

Registration
Please click “HERE” to register. Please send an email to yalecenterbeijing@yale.edu if there are any problems. If you encounter any payment issues, please attach a screenshot that identifies the issue. 

Ticket: Free for Yale alumni; RMB 30 for regular admission. 

*The registration fee is non-refundable. Unless due to a force majeure reason, Yale Center Beijing will not refund any part of the registration fee if a participant fails to attend the event.

Walk-ins will not be accepted.

The language of the event will be Chinese.

Note: Seats are available on a first-come-first-served basis.

The Event

Join us for a Yale Visiting Scholars Story Sharing Session on July 16 at Yale Center Beijing, where several Chinese scholars from the Fox International Fellowship at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University and the China Scholarship Council Visiting Scholars Program will come together to reflect on their academic journeys at Yale from 2023–25. Through personal stories and shared experiences, the event celebrates cross-cultural dialogue, academic exchange, and public service—highlighting both the international vision and Chinese voices that contribute to the Yale community. Whether you are curious about global scholarship, academic life at Yale, or planning your own academic visit, this session will provide meaningful perspectives and practical insights.

Featured speakers include Xianda Huang MA ’24 in East Asian Studies, Fox International Fellow to the Australian National University; Xu Zhang, MA ’24 in African Studies, Fox International Fellow to the University of Cape Town; Yifan Chen, Fox International Fellow from the Waseda University; Xinyu Gao and Hao Zhang, former visiting scholars at Yale University and PhD candidates in History at Peking University. Emily Erikson, Joseph C. Fox Academic Director of the Fox International Fellowship & Professor of Sociology at Yale, will deliver the opening remarks via video.

Speakers

Xianda Huang MA ’24
2024–2025 Fox International Fellow

Xianda Huang earned his BA in Economics and Chinese Literature from Vanderbilt University in 2022 and his MA in East Asian Studies from Yale University in 2024. He served as an elected student representative for the Yale East Asian Studies Council in 2023-2024, and was a recipient of the 2024–2025 Fox International Fellowship, through which he conducted academic exchanges at the Australian National University. His research focuses on the social and cultural history of modern China, with an emphasis on popular culture, media studies, and cultural economics. His work has been published in the Journal of East Asian Studies, The Conversation (US), ANU Reporter, and Chinese News of Traditional Chinese Medicine, among other Chinese and English periodicals.

Xu Zhang MA ’24 (Online)
2024–2025 Fox International Fellow

Xu Zhang holds an MA in African Studies from Yale University and a BA in International Relations from Peking University. He was a recipient of the 2024–2025 Fox International Fellowship and has engaged in academic exchange at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. His research interests include informal mining, environmentalism, and redistribution politics in Southern Africa, with fieldwork in both South Africa and Zambia.

Yifan Chen
2024–2025 Fox International Fellow

Yifan Chen holds an MA and a BA in Business Administration from Waseda University, where she also served as an ambassador for Chinese-Japanese cultural exchanges. She was a recipient of the 2024–2025 Fox International Fellowship. Her research focuses on international business and organizational theory, with a particular emphasis on multinational corporations' foreign direct investment and online transaction security.

Xinyu Gao
Visiting Scholar (2023–24), Yale University

Xingyu Gao is a PhD candidate in History at Peking University and holds a BA in History from Nanjing University. His research focuses on US foreign policy from World War I to the early Cold War, particularly the development of diplomatic information and propaganda agencies, and the role of social scientists in these efforts. He has contributed to oral history projects, including interviews with survivors of the Nanjing Massacre, and led a research project that received a National Special Prize in the “Challenge Cup” Academic Competition. In 2023–2024, he was funded by the China Scholarship Council for a visiting research opportunity in history at Yale.

Hao Zhang
Visiting Scholar (2023–24), Yale University

Hao Zhang is a PhD candidate in History at Peking University and conducted research at Yale Divinity School with funding from the China Scholarship Council in 2023-2024. His research focuses on the interaction between American religion and foreign relations in the early Cold War.