Initiating Mutual Understanding through Student Exchange (IMUSE) aims to foster mutual curiosity, respect, and understanding between people in China and the United States by providing top college and graduate students from these regions an intimate forum for discussion and deep personal reflection about the key issues affecting China and their own regions today.

IMUSE currently has three primary goals:

• Socially intimate and intellectually meaningful face-to-face interactions among a small group of promising American and Chinese college and university students to increase mutual curiosity, trust, and understanding among them;


• Development and maintenance of an alumni network to effect high-impact, positive social change through the continued collaboration of former participants of IMUSE events;


• Maintenance of a strong partnership among its satellites at Harvard, Tsinghua, and Peking Universities to maximize fruitful international exchange among members of our staff.

These goals are achieved through a variety of means, the most important of which is an annual conference among top college and graduate students from the United States and China in Beijing. Other events overseen by IMUSE include but are not limited to essay, photography, and other creative work competitions; campus speaker events; social gatherings; mini-conferences for alumni in China and the United States, and more.

Welcome to IMUSE!