Chinese Language Teaching Staff
Director
Aaron Molnar
amolnar@fas.harvard.edu Aaron Molnar is an Environmental Fellow at Harvard University’s Center for the Environment and a historian of the material cultural, environmental, and global history of East Asia. His research interests focus on Goryeo Korea’s (918–1392) integration into...
Aaron Throness
aaronthroness@g.harvard.eduPh.D. Candidate in Chinese History
Aaron Throness is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations specializing in the political history of Ming China. Aaron received his BA in Asian Area Studies (2020) and MA in History (2022) from the University of British...
Adam Frost
Speculation and Profiteering: The Entrepreneurial Transformation of Socialist China
Alastair Iain Johnston
https://scholar.harvard.edu/aijohnston/homeThe Governor James Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs International Relations
Alexander Akin
Printed Maps in Late Ming Publishing Culture: A Trans-Regional Perspective
Senior Preceptor
Aaron Molnar
amolnar@fas.harvard.edu Aaron Molnar is an Environmental Fellow at Harvard University’s Center for the Environment and a historian of the material cultural, environmental, and global history of East Asia. His research interests focus on Goryeo Korea’s (918–1392) integration into...
Aaron Throness
aaronthroness@g.harvard.eduPh.D. Candidate in Chinese History
Aaron Throness is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations specializing in the political history of Ming China. Aaron received his BA in Asian Area Studies (2020) and MA in History (2022) from the University of British...
Adam Frost
Speculation and Profiteering: The Entrepreneurial Transformation of Socialist China
Alastair Iain Johnston
https://scholar.harvard.edu/aijohnston/homeThe Governor James Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs International Relations
Alexander Akin
Printed Maps in Late Ming Publishing Culture: A Trans-Regional Perspective
Alexander Zahlten
azahlten@fas.harvard.eduProfessor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Chair, Regional Studies East Asia
Alexander Zahlten's research interests center on film and audiovisual culture in East Asia, with a focus on Japan. His work explores fundamental shifts in how we engage with media through the connections between larger economic, social, and institutional...
Alina Scotti
ascotti@g.harvard.eduPh.D. Candidate in East Asian Arts/Film/Cultural Studies
Alina Scotti is a PhD Candidate in East Asian Arts, Film, and Cultural Studies, where she specializes in the history of media, technology, and visual culture in modern China. Her dissertation examines changes in visual and textual modes of representation...
Allison Miller
Patronage, Politics, and the Emergence of Rock-Cut Tombs in Early Han China
Ami Tanahashi
amitanahashi@g.harvard.eduPh.D. Student in Japanese Literature
Ami Tanahashi studies contemporary Japanese literature, focusing on portrayals of girlhood and feminine adolescent identity. She received her B.A. from Soka University of America in 2017 and recently received her M.A. from the University of Washington in...
Amin Ghadimi
Disorder and the Japanese Revolution, 1871-1877
Amy Zhang
ayzhang@g.harvard.eduPh.D. Candidate in Chinese Literature
Amy Zhang holds a B.A. and M.A. in Chinese Language and Literature from Nankai University. She received her second M.A. from Regional Studies—East Asia at Harvard University in 2019 with a focus in pre-modern Chinese literary culture. Her research...
Andrew Campana
Poetry Across Media in 20th-Century Japan
Andrew Gordon
agordon@fas.harvard.eduLee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History
On leave Fall 2025
Andrew Gordon’s teaching and research focus primarily on modern Japan but he has also taught Japan’s premodern history and courses on comparative history of labor. He has written, edited, or translated numerous books, including one that won the John King...
Andrew Rodekohr
Conjuring the Masses: The Figure of the Crowd in Modern Chinese Literature and Visual Culture
Anna Jungeun Lee
Resistant Consumerism: The Politics of Consumption in South Korea during the Park Chung Hee Period (1961-1979)
Annie Zhanling Wang
zhanlingwang@g.harvard.eduPh.D. Candidate in HEAL/China
Annie Zhanling Wang is a social historian of late imperial China and Inner Asia, with a focus on gender, family relations, voice, and empire. She has written about friendships between Manchu women in Beijing and Han women in Jiangnan in the eighteenth...
Ariel Fox
Southern Capital: Staging Commerce in Seventeenth-Century Suzhou
Preceptors
Fangzheng Zhang
fangzhengzhang@fas.harvard.eduPreceptor in Chinese
Interim Senior Preceptor in Chinese
Acting Director of Chinese Language Program (2026)
Fangzheng Zhang is the Interim Senior Preceptor in Chinese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University and serves as the Acting Director of the Chinese Language Program in 2026. He has been teaching at Harvard since...
Linlin Xiong
linlin_xiong@gse.harvard.eduActing Preceptor in Chinese
Language Instructor in Chinese
Matthew Wild
mwild@fas.harvard.eduPreceptor in Literary Sinitic
Matthew Wild works on classical Chinese literature and intellectual history. He is completing a book manuscript titled Sounding Public: Voice and the Aesthetics of Evidence in High Qing China , which offers a fresh account of eighteenth-century Chinese...
Ying-Chieh Wang
yingchieh_wang@fas.harvard.eduPreceptor in Chinese
On Leave Spring 2026
Ying-Chieh Wang is a Preceptor in Chinese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, where she has been teaching since 2020. Before joining Harvard, she taught at Wake Forest University and National Taiwan...
Yuxiao Du
landon_du@fas.harvard.eduPreceptor in Chinese
Yuxiao Du ( 杜宇潇 ) has been teaching at Harvard since 2019. He has taught elementary, intermediate, and pre-advanced levels in intensive and non-intensive settings, working with both heritage and non-heritage learners. Over the summer, he taught at Harvard...
Drill Instructors
Aaron Molnar
amolnar@fas.harvard.edu Aaron Molnar is an Environmental Fellow at Harvard University’s Center for the Environment and a historian of the material cultural, environmental, and global history of East Asia. His research interests focus on Goryeo Korea’s (918–1392) integration into...
Aaron Throness
aaronthroness@g.harvard.eduPh.D. Candidate in Chinese History
Aaron Throness is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations specializing in the political history of Ming China. Aaron received his BA in Asian Area Studies (2020) and MA in History (2022) from the University of British...
Adam Frost
Speculation and Profiteering: The Entrepreneurial Transformation of Socialist China
Alastair Iain Johnston
https://scholar.harvard.edu/aijohnston/homeThe Governor James Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs International Relations
Alexander Akin
Printed Maps in Late Ming Publishing Culture: A Trans-Regional Perspective
Alexander Zahlten
azahlten@fas.harvard.eduProfessor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Chair, Regional Studies East Asia
Alexander Zahlten's research interests center on film and audiovisual culture in East Asia, with a focus on Japan. His work explores fundamental shifts in how we engage with media through the connections between larger economic, social, and institutional...
Alina Scotti
ascotti@g.harvard.eduPh.D. Candidate in East Asian Arts/Film/Cultural Studies
Alina Scotti is a PhD Candidate in East Asian Arts, Film, and Cultural Studies, where she specializes in the history of media, technology, and visual culture in modern China. Her dissertation examines changes in visual and textual modes of representation...
Allison Miller
Patronage, Politics, and the Emergence of Rock-Cut Tombs in Early Han China
Ami Tanahashi
amitanahashi@g.harvard.eduPh.D. Student in Japanese Literature
Ami Tanahashi studies contemporary Japanese literature, focusing on portrayals of girlhood and feminine adolescent identity. She received her B.A. from Soka University of America in 2017 and recently received her M.A. from the University of Washington in...
Amin Ghadimi
Disorder and the Japanese Revolution, 1871-1877
Amy Zhang
ayzhang@g.harvard.eduPh.D. Candidate in Chinese Literature
Amy Zhang holds a B.A. and M.A. in Chinese Language and Literature from Nankai University. She received her second M.A. from Regional Studies—East Asia at Harvard University in 2019 with a focus in pre-modern Chinese literary culture. Her research...
Andrew Campana
Poetry Across Media in 20th-Century Japan
Andrew Gordon
agordon@fas.harvard.eduLee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History
On leave Fall 2025
Andrew Gordon’s teaching and research focus primarily on modern Japan but he has also taught Japan’s premodern history and courses on comparative history of labor. He has written, edited, or translated numerous books, including one that won the John King...
Andrew Rodekohr
Conjuring the Masses: The Figure of the Crowd in Modern Chinese Literature and Visual Culture
Anna Jungeun Lee
Resistant Consumerism: The Politics of Consumption in South Korea during the Park Chung Hee Period (1961-1979)
Annie Zhanling Wang
zhanlingwang@g.harvard.eduPh.D. Candidate in HEAL/China
Annie Zhanling Wang is a social historian of late imperial China and Inner Asia, with a focus on gender, family relations, voice, and empire. She has written about friendships between Manchu women in Beijing and Han women in Jiangnan in the eighteenth...
Ariel Fox
Southern Capital: Staging Commerce in Seventeenth-Century Suzhou