Leaders from the College of Arts & Sciences recently traveled to China and Asia to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Brittany and Adam J. Levinson Program in China and Asia-Pacific Studies and to join other Cornell delegates at the Cornell-China Forum in Shanghai.

While there, they were also joined by eight Levinson Program students studying abroad at Peking University as part of the program’s experience of an intensive language requirement combined with courses on contemporary China.

“The Levinson Program is a core component of our international engagement with China and the Asia Pacific, and we’re proud it has weathered the uncertainties and challenges of COVID,” said Patrizia McBride, senior associate dean in A&S and Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters in the Department of German Studies.  “Student interest has revived beyond our wildest expectations.”

The trip included a roundtable discussion between College leaders, Levinson Program students and alumni, and Adam Levinson ’92, who has offered major support for the program; a speech by Peter John Loewen, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts & Sciences, celebrating the program’s 20th anniversary at the 2025 Cornell-China Forum; a panel, “Building Bridges: The Past and Future of China and Asia-Pacific Studies at Cornell;” and a “Study China in China” conference, organized by the Levinson Program and Yenching Academy at Peking University, which involved nearly 20 other China-based China studies programs.

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