Jennifer Liu came to Harvard in 2011 as the Director of the Chinese Language Program. As Director, she is responsible for recruiting, training, and supervising about 24 teachers who offer 20-22 language courses annually to approximately 700 students. She...
Wai-yee Li is the 1879 Professor of Chinese Literature at Harvard University, where she has taught since 2000. Li’s research spans topics ranging from early Chinese thought and narrative to late imperial Chinese literature and culture. Her recent...
Shigehisa Kuriyama received his A.B. degree from Harvard's Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations in 1977 and an A.M. degree in 1978. After completing acupuncture studies in Tokyo, he entered Harvard's Department of the History of Science...
Mark Elliott has been at Harvard since 2003, having earned his B.A. and M.A. at Yale and his Ph.D. at University of California at Berkeley. His first book, The Manchu Way: The Eight Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China, based primarily on...
Peter K. Bol is the Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. His research is centered on the history of China’s cultural elites at the national and local levels from the 7th to the 17th century. He is the author of "This...
