Chinese Language Teaching Staff

Director

Jennifer Li-Chia Liu

Professor of the Practice of Language Pedagogy

Director of the Chinese Language Program

On Leave Calendar Year 2026

Prof. Liu

Preceptors

Jing Cai

Preceptor in Chinese

Jing Cai

Xiaocheng Chen

Preceptor in Chinese

Xiaocheng Chen

Yuxiao Du

Preceptor in Chinese

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Ying-Chieh Wang

Preceptor in Chinese

On Leave Spring 2026

Ying-Chieh Wang, a Chinese woman with long hair and a black sweater over a white shirt, smiles at the camera.

I-Chuan Wei

Acting Preceptor in Chinese

Language Instructor in Chinese

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Matthew Wild

Preceptor in Literary Sinitic

Matthew Wild

Linlin Xiong

Acting Preceptor in Chinese

Language Instructor in Chinese

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Shunan Yang

Preceptor in Chinese

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Fangzheng Zhang

Preceptor in Chinese

Interim Senior Preceptor in Chinese

Acting Director of Chinese Language Program (2026)

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Drill Instructors

Yue-Rung Chen

yuerungchen@fas.harvard.edu

Language Instructor in Chinese

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Wen-Hui Chen

wenhuichen@fas.harvard.edu

Language Instructor in Chinese

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Yimo Guo

yimoguo@fas.harvard.edu

Language Instructor in Chinese

Yimo Guo

Luping He

luping_he@fas.harvard.edu

Language Instructor in Chinese

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Yi-Ting Huang

yitinghuang@fas.harvard.edu

Language Instructor in Chinese

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Minglei Lin

minglei_lin@fas.harvard.edu

Language Instructor in Chinese

Minglei Lin

Nichimin Lu

nichiminlu@fas.harvard.edu

Language Instructor in Chinese

Nichimin LU received her B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature from Tsinghua University in 2014, and finished her Master’s degree in the Regional Studies - East Asian Program at Harvard in 2016. In EALC she looks into the poetic space and the poetics of...

Yung-Cheng Tien

yungchengtien@fas.harvard.edu

Language Instructor in Chinese

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I-Chuan Wei

ichuanwei@fas.harvard.edu

Acting Preceptor in Chinese

Language Instructor in Chinese

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Tung Hung Wu

tunghungwu@fas.harvard.edu

Language Instructor in Chinese

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Linlin Xiong

linlin_xiong@gse.harvard.edu

Acting Preceptor in Chinese

Language Instructor in Chinese

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Chia-Yin Yu

chiayin_yu@fas.harvard.edu

Language Instructor in Chinese

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