Yiwu—known as the “World’s Supermarket”—is a major hub where global merchants, digital commerce, and small‑commodity manufacturing converge. To understand this unique business ecosystem, students from the DKU Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative participated in a three‑day immersive field program in the city. Day 1: Entrepreneurship and Foreign Trade Insights Students first…
“In the charity shop, you can buy acts of kindness as well as things you may need — and beyond the physical items, you also take away a warmth in your heart. There are many special people here, and (ShanTao) allows them to participate in real work. Kindness is exchanged…
For many, perfume is inseparable from Western romance—lavender fields in Provence, sunlit citrus groves in Italy, desire distilled into glass bottles. For Ruitong (Lricy) Li, however, perfume belongs to an entirely different world. It is Eastern, unhurried, a quiet dialogue between breath, time, and inner rhythm. That worldview took shape almost by…
To deeply integrate social responsibility into the university’s education, research, and campus engagement, Duke Kunshan University (DKU), in collaboration with the DKU Foundation, launched a university-wide initiative—the DKU Empower program. Over the past three years, the DKU Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative (DKU InE), in partnership with the DKU Foundation, has…
DKU undergraduate student Hanyang Zhou, Huiqiao Yuan, and Ai Zhou have recently achieved a significant milestone in the “U-Corp @ PEER (AI Research)” project. The team presented their project, “An Exploratory Investigation into the Use of Generative AI in Creative Writing as a Means of Emotional Support for Middle School…
Yuri Park’s journey with the DKU Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative (InE) began with a simple idea that gradually evolved into something more profound. Initially focused on using creativity to connect people and solving practical, everyday problems through design, she eventually refined her design perspective by exploring the intersection of technology…
