# Chinese Language Teaching Staff ## Director [### Aaron Molnar ](/people/aaron-molnar) 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 Molnar photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_scale_small/public/2025-09/Molnar%20Aaron%20Photo.jpeg?itok=xA4nJduW) [### Aaron Throness ](/people/aaron-throness) Ph.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... ![Aaron Throness, a man with brown hair and beard, smiles in the great outdoors](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-02/throness_aaroncrop.JPG?itok=hGd7lLZL) [### Adam Frost ](/people/adam-frost) Speculation and Profiteering: The Entrepreneurial Transformation of Socialist China ![Headshot of Adam frost, showing a smiling young man with short brown hair, glasses, and facial hair.](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ealc/files/adam_frost_headshot.jpg?itok=_LxQDzK0) [### Ahsil Noh ](/people/ahsil-noh) Preceptor in Korean ![A woman with long, wavy black hair wears a pink flowy blouse and delicate gold necklace and smiles at the camera in front of a white background.](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ealc/files/noh_ahsil_1.jpg?itok=MXoC7BuK) [### Alastair Iain Johnston ](/people/alastair-iain-johnston) [https://scholar.harvard.edu/aijohnston/home](mailto:https://scholar.harvard.edu/aijohnston/home)The Governor James Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs International Relations ![iainjohnston.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ealc/files/iainjohnston.jpg?itok=w3l1GJNr) [### Alexander Akin ](/people/alexander-akin) Printed Maps in Late Ming Publishing Culture: A Trans-Regional Perspective ![2009pbch.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ealc/files/2009pbch.png?itok=hvfnnqQp) ## Senior Preceptor [### Aaron Molnar ](/people/aaron-molnar) 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 Molnar photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_scale_small/public/2025-09/Molnar%20Aaron%20Photo.jpeg?itok=xA4nJduW) [### Aaron Throness ](/people/aaron-throness) Ph.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... ![Aaron Throness, a man with brown hair and beard, smiles in the great outdoors](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-02/throness_aaroncrop.JPG?itok=hGd7lLZL) [### Adam Frost ](/people/adam-frost) Speculation and Profiteering: The Entrepreneurial Transformation of Socialist China ![Headshot of Adam frost, showing a smiling young man with short brown hair, glasses, and facial hair.](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ealc/files/adam_frost_headshot.jpg?itok=_LxQDzK0) [### Ahsil Noh ](/people/ahsil-noh) Preceptor in Korean ![A woman with long, wavy black hair wears a pink flowy blouse and delicate gold necklace and smiles at the camera in front of a white background.](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ealc/files/noh_ahsil_1.jpg?itok=MXoC7BuK) [### Alastair Iain Johnston ](/people/alastair-iain-johnston) [https://scholar.harvard.edu/aijohnston/home](mailto:https://scholar.harvard.edu/aijohnston/home)The Governor James Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs International Relations ![iainjohnston.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ealc/files/iainjohnston.jpg?itok=w3l1GJNr) [### Alexander Akin ](/people/alexander-akin) Printed Maps in Late Ming Publishing Culture: A Trans-Regional Perspective ![2009pbch.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ealc/files/2009pbch.png?itok=hvfnnqQp) [### Alexander Zahlten ](/people/alexander-zahlten) Professor 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... ![Alex Zahlten, a man with a buzz-cut and glasses, smiles at the camera wearing a fashionable blazer](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-02/A_Zahlten%20Pic%202025.jpg?h=7506d7a0&itok=l4iD_w2X) [### Alina Scotti ](/people/alina-scotti) Ph.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... ![A Caucasian woman with long brown hair and fantastic eyebrows smiles at the camera](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/scotti_alina_EALCsite_headshot2025.jpg?itok=AgXFhCcV) [### Allison Miller ](/people/allison-miller) Patronage, Politics, and the Emergence of Rock-Cut Tombs in Early Han China ![2011mpac.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ealc/files/2011mpac.png?itok=HnAU_P90) [### Ami Tanahashi ](/people/ami-tanahashi) Ph.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... ![A Japanese woman with long hair wearing a blue coat smiles at the camera.](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ealc/files/tanahashi_ami.jpeg?itok=6A8i6p_2) [### Amin Ghadimi ](/people/amin-ghadimi) Disorder and the Japanese Revolution, 1871-1877 ![A thumbnail with white text on a dark red background reading "2019, HEAL/Japan, David Howell](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ealc/files/amin_ghadimi_alumni_thumbnail.jpg?itok=7qocaEA7) [### Amy Zhang ](/people/amy-zhang) Ph.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... ![A Chinese woman with a ponytail wearing a blazer looks smartly at the camera while standing in a Zen garden](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-01/Amy%20Zhang_photo.jpg?h=f5ee4f64&itok=3QcUpnHA) [### Andrew Campana ](/people/andrew-campana) Poetry Across Media in 20th-Century Japan ![Andrew Campana](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ealc/files/2018tymj.png?itok=Dp909jPH) [### Andrew Gordon ](/people/andrew-gordon) Lee 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... ![112807_gordon_andrew_014.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ealc/files/112807_gordon_andrew_014.jpg?itok=nu6dNkBO) [### Andrew Rodekohr ](/people/andrew-rodekohr) Conjuring the Masses: The Figure of the Crowd in Modern Chinese Literature and Visual Culture ![2012dwcl.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ealc/files/2012dwcl.png?itok=7cPFWvzm) [### Anna Jungeun Lee ](/people/anna-jungeun-lee) Resistant Consumerism: The Politics of Consumption in South Korea during the Park Chung Hee Period (1961-1979) ![White text on a red background reading "2021. HEAL/Korea. Carter Eckert."](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ealc/files/anna_jungeun_lee_alumni.jpg?itok=784PqL36) [### Annie Zhanling Wang ](/people/annie-zhanling-wang) Ph.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... ![Annie Zhanling Wang](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ealc/files/annie_zhanling_wang.jpg?itok=DCfLlH-o) [### Ariel Fox ](/people/ariel-fox) Southern Capital: Staging Commerce in Seventeenth-Century Suzhou ![2015wlcl.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ealc/files/2015wlcl.png?itok=lkxlws5q) [### Asahi Matsumoto ](/people/asahi-matsumoto) Language Instructor in Japanese ![A Japanese woman with long hair and wearing a dark blue coat smiles at the camera in a field full of snow](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-01/matsumoto_asahi.jpeg?h=c2245d15&itok=Ki_HTOTG) [### Asako Higurashi ](/people/asako-higurashi) Preceptor in Japanese ![A Japanese woman with short hair smiles](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ealc/files/asako_higurashi.png?itok=-XmMCHn6) ## Preceptors [### Fangzheng Zhang ](/people/fangzheng-zhang) Preceptor 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... ![A Chinese man with short hair sits on a piece of architecture and smiles at the camera](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-01/Fangzheng%20Zhang.jpeg?h=d8a46c36&itok=z4E-Pfuc) [### I-Chuan Wei ](/people/i-chuan-wei) Acting Preceptor in Chinese Language Instructor in Chinese ![A Chinese woman with shoulder-length brown hair smiles at the camera while wearing a grey hat](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-01/Wei_I-Chuan.jpg?h=cedd54d5&itok=V_2ZSNDa) [### Jing Cai ](/people/xiuting-tan) [jing\_cai@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:jing_cai@fas.harvard.edu)Preceptor in Chinese ![Jing Cai](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ealc/files/jing_thumbnail.jpg?itok=v_7i_vZd) [### Linlin Xiong ](/people/linlin-xiong) [linlin\_xiong@gse.harvard.edu](mailto:linlin_xiong@gse.harvard.edu)Acting Preceptor in Chinese Language Instructor in Chinese ![A young woman with long brown hair, wearing a knit sweater and brown beret, holds a pastry in one hand and tilts her head toward the camera, smiling slightly.](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ealc/files/photo_linlin_xiong1_1.jpg?itok=jynVRoww) [### Matthew Wild ](/people/matthew-wild) Preceptor 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... ![Matthew Wild](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-06/Wild%20website%20photo%206-10-20.jpeg?itok=V9oygMcj) [### Shunan Yang ](/people/shunan-yang) [shunan\_yang@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:shunan_yang@fas.harvard.edu)Preceptor in Chinese ![A woman with long black hair and glasses smiles in front of a scenic village](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-02/Photo%20of%20Shunan%20Yang.jpg?h=9ce0dc72&itok=ttB85P6Y) [### Xiaocheng Chen ](/people/xiaocheng-chen) [xiaocheng\_chen@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:xiaocheng_chen@fas.harvard.edu)Preceptor in Chinese ![Xiaocheng Chen](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ealc/files/xiaocheng_thumbnail_0.jpg?itok=xkXlm20u) [### Ying-Chieh Wang ](/people/ying-chieh-wang) [yingchieh\_wang@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:yingchieh_wang@fas.harvard.edu)Preceptor 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... ![Ying-Chieh Wang, a Chinese woman with long hair and a black sweater over a white shirt, smiles at the camera.](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-01/Wang_Ying_Chieh.JPG?h=0b841d84&itok=3trPrtpS) [### Yuxiao Du ](/people/yuxiao-du) [landon\_du@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:landon_du@fas.harvard.edu)Preceptor 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... ![A Chinese man with glasses smiles in front of a New Orleans street sign](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-01/Yuxiao%20Du%20Headshot.jpg?h=cb268cdb&itok=bIKPK93x) ## Drill Instructors [### Aaron Molnar ](/people/aaron-molnar) 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 Molnar photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_scale_small/public/2025-09/Molnar%20Aaron%20Photo.jpeg?itok=xA4nJduW) [### Aaron Throness ](/people/aaron-throness) Ph.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... ![Aaron Throness, a man with brown hair and beard, smiles in the great outdoors](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-02/throness_aaroncrop.JPG?itok=hGd7lLZL) [### Adam Frost ](/people/adam-frost) Speculation and Profiteering: The Entrepreneurial Transformation of Socialist China ![Headshot of Adam frost, showing a smiling young man with short brown hair, glasses, and facial hair.](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ealc/files/adam_frost_headshot.jpg?itok=_LxQDzK0) [### Ahsil Noh ](/people/ahsil-noh) Preceptor in Korean ![A woman with long, wavy black hair wears a pink flowy blouse and delicate gold necklace and smiles at the camera in front of a white background.](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ealc/files/noh_ahsil_1.jpg?itok=MXoC7BuK) [### Alastair Iain Johnston ](/people/alastair-iain-johnston) [https://scholar.harvard.edu/aijohnston/home](mailto:https://scholar.harvard.edu/aijohnston/home)The Governor James Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs International Relations ![iainjohnston.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ealc/files/iainjohnston.jpg?itok=w3l1GJNr) [### Alexander Akin ](/people/alexander-akin) Printed Maps in Late Ming Publishing Culture: A Trans-Regional Perspective ![2009pbch.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ealc/files/2009pbch.png?itok=hvfnnqQp) [### Alexander Zahlten ](/people/alexander-zahlten) Professor 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... ![Alex Zahlten, a man with a buzz-cut and glasses, smiles at the camera wearing a fashionable blazer](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-02/A_Zahlten%20Pic%202025.jpg?h=7506d7a0&itok=l4iD_w2X) [### Alina Scotti ](/people/alina-scotti) Ph.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... ![A Caucasian woman with long brown hair and fantastic eyebrows smiles at the camera](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/scotti_alina_EALCsite_headshot2025.jpg?itok=AgXFhCcV) [### Allison Miller ](/people/allison-miller) Patronage, Politics, and the Emergence of Rock-Cut Tombs in Early Han China ![2011mpac.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ealc/files/2011mpac.png?itok=HnAU_P90) [### Ami Tanahashi ](/people/ami-tanahashi) Ph.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... ![A Japanese woman with long hair wearing a blue coat smiles at the camera.](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ealc/files/tanahashi_ami.jpeg?itok=6A8i6p_2) [### Amin Ghadimi ](/people/amin-ghadimi) Disorder and the Japanese Revolution, 1871-1877 ![A thumbnail with white text on a dark red background reading "2019, HEAL/Japan, David Howell](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ealc/files/amin_ghadimi_alumni_thumbnail.jpg?itok=7qocaEA7) [### Amy Zhang ](/people/amy-zhang) Ph.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... ![A Chinese woman with a ponytail wearing a blazer looks smartly at the camera while standing in a Zen garden](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-01/Amy%20Zhang_photo.jpg?h=f5ee4f64&itok=3QcUpnHA) [### Andrew Campana ](/people/andrew-campana) Poetry Across Media in 20th-Century Japan ![Andrew Campana](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ealc/files/2018tymj.png?itok=Dp909jPH) [### Andrew Gordon ](/people/andrew-gordon) Lee 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... ![112807_gordon_andrew_014.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ealc/files/112807_gordon_andrew_014.jpg?itok=nu6dNkBO) [### Andrew Rodekohr ](/people/andrew-rodekohr) Conjuring the Masses: The Figure of the Crowd in Modern Chinese Literature and Visual Culture ![2012dwcl.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ealc/files/2012dwcl.png?itok=7cPFWvzm) [### Anna Jungeun Lee ](/people/anna-jungeun-lee) Resistant Consumerism: The Politics of Consumption in South Korea during the Park Chung Hee Period (1961-1979) ![White text on a red background reading "2021. HEAL/Korea. Carter Eckert."](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ealc/files/anna_jungeun_lee_alumni.jpg?itok=784PqL36) [### Annie Zhanling Wang ](/people/annie-zhanling-wang) Ph.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... ![Annie Zhanling Wang](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ealc/files/annie_zhanling_wang.jpg?itok=DCfLlH-o) [### Ariel Fox ](/people/ariel-fox) Southern Capital: Staging Commerce in Seventeenth-Century Suzhou ![2015wlcl.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ealc/files/2015wlcl.png?itok=lkxlws5q) [### Asahi Matsumoto ](/people/asahi-matsumoto) Language Instructor in Japanese ![A Japanese woman with long hair and wearing a dark blue coat smiles at the camera in a field full of snow](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-01/matsumoto_asahi.jpeg?h=c2245d15&itok=Ki_HTOTG) [### Asako Higurashi ](/people/asako-higurashi) Preceptor in Japanese ![A Japanese woman with short hair smiles](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ealc/files/asako_higurashi.png?itok=-XmMCHn6)