Harmony Academy
Harmony Academy was jointly initiated by Professor Zhu Jiangang of the Department of Sociology at Zhejiang University and the Guangzhou Academy of Philanthropy. It is a “parallel university” that uses collective learning in the academy tradition and action research to provide young people with a learning space where they can understand society and cultivate a public spirit through engagement with real-world contexts. It has previously completed two cohorts of youth experimental programs in Cangdong, Jiangmen, and Haiyuan, Ningxia. This funding will support two international camps in 2026. In August, a 14-day ethnographic field camp will be held in Chiang Mai, with anthropologists from China and abroad serving as mentors. Participants will carry out action research in real community settings and produce research reports. In July, an action research camp will be held at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin, hosted by Professor Xiang Biao, focusing on “Youth, Migration, and Social Imagination.”