From June 16th to 20th, Tsinghua and Harvard-Yenching Institute Comparative Literature and World Literature Seminar was held in Tsinghua University. Professor Chen Yongguo from the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures organized this seminar together with Harvard-Yenching Institute. David Damrosch, the former chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard, Karen Thornber, chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard, Harish Trivedi, from the University of Delhi in India, Suradech Chotiudompant from Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, Professor Wang Ning and Professor Chen Yongguo from the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures of Tsinghua University, were the main instructors for this seminar. Their topics included eco-criticism, the global health problems, literature and global city, translation studies, comparative literature and sinophone studies, cross-cultural comparative studies, the relationship between comparative literature and world literature, the value of new theories in comparative literature, and theory and practice of translation and cultural studies in the study of comparative literature. Twenty PhD students and young scholars who have received a doctorate in the field of comparative literature participated in the seminar. All these students and scholars were selected by Tsinghua University and Harvard-Yenching Institute through a rigorous process from different universities in Asia (mostly from China). Besides, there were fifteen students who audited the whole seminar.