Editor's note: In the following essay, Jawad Shabbir, a Ph.D. scholar at Peking University's School of Earth and Space Science who hails from Pakistan, writes about his thoughts on the educational landscape in China on the occasion of the International Day of Education. The auth...

Peking University, January 17, 2024: The 2024 Spring Festival gathering of Peking University (PKU) was held on the morning of Jan. 12, 2024, at the Yingjie Exchange Center, where School leaders, guests, and teacher and student representatives gathered to celebrate the upcoming Ch...

Peking University, January 2, 2024: Events have been held in the US to celebrate more than half a century of what's known as "ping pong diplomacy", which is credited with helping break the ice with China before the formal establishment of diplomatic relations 45 years ago. Wang M...

Goodbye, 2023

Editor's note: Perhaps no words can better denote scientific and academic accomplishments than “breakthrough.” While “break” illustrates the triumphant success of an experiment or research, “through” underscores those laborious behind-the-scenes quests – the murky and circuitous...