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Peking University, established in 1898, is a comprehensive and multidisciplinary teaching and research university located in Beijing, China. It is the oldest, and most influential institution of higher learning in China, and it has been the origin of every major social movement in contemporary Chinese history. It was from this picturesque campus where the Chinese Renaissance movement took place and where democracy and science became a beacon for the whole society. Since its founding, the University has always been centered on the four pillars of patriotism, progress, democracy, and science, and it is at the heart of thought and culture in China. Peking University, known for its vibrant student community and its all-embracing campus culture, serves as a bridge between China and the world, bringing together China’s and the world’s renowned scholars and students of talent who are determined to make the world a better place.

Mark your calendar for "The Middle Ages in Our World," an international lecture series featuring Princeton University Pr...
16/10/2026

Mark your calendar for "The Middle Ages in Our World," an international lecture series featuring Princeton University Professor and Guggenheim Fellow D. Vance Smith, presented by the Department of English, PKU's School of Foreign Languages.

This three-part series explores how medieval literature and thought continue to inhabit our intellectual, political, and material worlds. Bringing texts into conversation with psychoanalysis, urban studies, and postcolonial theory, the lectures examine the structures, crises, and latent possibilities of our own time.

The discussions draw broadly on Professor Smith's recent book, Atlas's Bones: The African Foundations of Europe (University of Chicago Press), which reimagines global intellectual history and challenges traditional Eurocentric narratives by examining cross-cultural connections.

More: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/D2sA6Rhcp8ove_yAWDyAGA

For two nights, the National Ballet of China presented Swan Lake at PKU Hall, with Tchaikovsky’s timeless music filling ...
16/10/2026

For two nights, the National Ballet of China presented Swan Lake at PKU Hall, with Tchaikovsky’s timeless music filling the venue.

More than 3,000 students and faculty gathered to experience this classic tale of love and fate. 🩰🎶

Since 1931, only 1,284 economists have been elected Fellows of the Econometric Society, and 90 of them have gone on to r...
16/10/2026

Since 1931, only 1,284 economists have been elected Fellows of the Econometric Society, and 90 of them have gone on to receive the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.

This year, Prof. Justin Yifu Lin, Dean of the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University, joins that company. The Society announced its 2026 Fellows on October 8.

Founded in 1930, it is the largest and most distinguished association of economists worldwide.

Autumn days at Peking University.🍁 📷：Zheng Hanling
16/10/2026

Autumn days at Peking University.🍁



📷：Zheng Hanling

Autumn Photo Spots at … Save this for your fall campus walk!🍂📷: Yang Yizhe
15/10/2026

Autumn Photo Spots at … Save this for your fall campus walk!🍂

📷: Yang Yizhe

15/10/2026

Some places deserve a place in your collection. 📮

From the PKU Library to Weiming Lake, here are a few familiar sights from campus, reimagined as stamps.

Which one feels most PKU to you?

🎦: Xu YongJia

Some journeys are measured in kilometres; others in the people who walk them beside you. From September 29 to October 4,...
15/10/2026

Some journeys are measured in kilometres; others in the people who walk them beside you.

From September 29 to October 4, teams from HSBC Business School crossed 121 kilometres of salt flats, gravel roads, and canyons in Guazhou, Gansu, over four days and three nights. The EMBA team finished second on the medal table with 123 medals, while the MBA team placed third in the team competition.

Pacing, communication, and trust carried them through the desert, and both received the Shackleton Award.


Peking University HSBC Business School

A research team led by Prof. Xie Xincheng from Peking University’s School of Physics, together with collaborators, has r...
14/10/2026

A research team led by Prof. Xie Xincheng from Peking University’s School of Physics, together with collaborators, has revealed how non-Hermitian topology can emerge naturally from edge transport in a Hermitian quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) system.

The researchers found that the interplay between unidirectional chiral edge modes and diffusive normal edge modes produces intrinsic non-reciprocal transport described by a continuum Hatano–Nelson model. The resulting non-Hermitian skin effect can be detected through experimentally accessible signatures in local voltage, heat dissipation, and conductance.

The findings connect non-Hermitian topology with mesoscopic electronic transport and point to magnetic topological insulators as a solid-state platform for exploring intrinsic non-Hermitian phenomena.

Published in Nature Communications.
🔗 Read more: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-77208-6

Chemists have long relied on intuition to read a TLC plate or puzzle out a molecule's structure from overlapping spectra...
14/10/2026

Chemists have long relied on intuition to read a TLC plate or puzzle out a molecule's structure from overlapping spectra.

Researchers at Peking University, led by Assoc. Prof. Mo Fanyang, are pushing AI past prediction and into ex*****on.

One study, published in JACS, debuts PLANAR, a robotic system that plans and carries out thin-layer chromatography purification with visual feedback.

A companion study in Angewandte Chemie proposes a hypothesis-and-refinement approach to inferring molecular structure from multiple spectroscopic signals.

Learn more:
1. Agentic Preparative Thin-Layer Chromatography System for Autonomous Purification.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
Published on Sep. 29th.
DOI：10.1021/jacs.6c10800
https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Agentic_Preparative_Thin-Layer_Chromatography_System_for_Autonomous_Purification/34024598?file=69464255

2. Hypothesis-and-Refinement Learning of Organic Structures From Multimodal Spectroscopic Data
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Published on Sep. 11th.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.9212238
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.19816

What do you write when one moon shines over everyone you miss? 🌕 On the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Yenching Academy...
14/10/2026

What do you write when one moon shines over everyone you miss? 🌕

On the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Yenching Academy gathered its students from around the world to put their thoughts on paper. Some wrote to family far away, some to friends close by, and some about their hopes for their time on campus.

The notes were short, but the feelings traveled across oceans. 💌 Music, dance, and good company made it a warm, memorable night under the same moon!

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