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  [### Ryuichi Abe

 ](/people/ryuichi-abe) <rabe@fas.harvard.edu>Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions

On leave 2025-26

Interim Director of Undergraduate Studies

Walter C. Cabot Fellowship (2024-25)

 

 

 After completing an undergraduate degree in Economics at Keio University, Ryūichi Abé acquired a master’s degree from School of Advanced International Affairs, the Johns Hopkins University. He then turned to Religious Studies and was awarded an M. Phil... 

 

 

      ![a picture of Prof. Ryuichi Abe, a Japanese male wearing a suit and tie](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ealc/files/abe_ryuichi004r.png?itok=y1mS_DQ5) 

 

 

 

   [### Naomi Asakura

 ](/people/naomi-asakura) <nasakura@fas.harvard.edu>Preceptor in Japanese

 

 

 

      ![Smiling woman with long black hair pulled into a pony tail and wearing a pink cardigan smiles at the camera in front of a white backdrop.](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ealc/files/naomi_asakura.jpg?itok=w5TDsiND) 

 

 

 

   [### David Atherton

 ](/people/david-atherton) <datherton@fas.harvard.edu>Thorley D. Briggs 1953 Associate Professor of the Humanities

 

 

 David C. Atherton is a scholar of literature, focusing primarily on Japan’s early modern period (also known as the Edo or Tokugawa period, ca. 1600-1867). His work seeks to understand how the intrinsic, literary dynamics of early modern texts interacted... 

 

 

      ![A man with short hair and facial hair smiles into the camera against a leafy backdrop](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-11/Atherton%20Headshot.jpeg?itok=VEFstowH) 

 

 

 

   [### Peter K. Bol

 ](/people/peter-k-bol) <pkbol@fas.harvard.edu>Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

On leave Fall 2026

 

 

 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 7 th to the 17 th century. He is the author of "This... 

 

 

      ![A Caucasian man with short brown hair, blue eyes, and glasses looks solemnly at the camera. ](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-01/Bol2.jpg?itok=C6nZwuUa) 

 

 

 

   [### Chan Yong Bu

 ](/people/chan-yong-bu) <cbu@fas.harvard.edu>Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

 

 

 Chan Yong Bu’s research focuses on the entanglements of the body, science, and technology within media culture as crucial sites for human-nonhuman relations. In particular, Chan Yong works on industrial media in South and North Korea, media spectacles in... 

 

 

      ![A Korean man with short hair wearing a blazer looks into the camera assertively.](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-05/bu_chanyong.jpg?h=6a5453cd&itok=mq6-PV_Q) 

 

 

 

   [### 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) 

 

 

 

   [### Mark Caprio

 ](/people/mark-caprio) <mcaprio@fas.harvard.edu>Kim Koo Visiting Professor of Korean Studies beginning August 1, 2025

 

 

 Mark E. Caprio is professor emeritus at Rikkyo University in Tokyo, Japan. He is the author of Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea, 1910—1945 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009) . Additionally, he has co-edited a number of volumes... 

 

 

      ![Mark Caprio](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Caprio.jpeg?itok=qOMbMfwN) 

 

 

 

   [### 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) 

 

 

 

   [### Wen-Hui Chen

 ](/people/wen-hui-chen) <wenhuichen@fas.harvard.edu>Language Instructor in Chinese

 

 

 

      ![A Chinese woman wearing a white sweater smiles from a field of beautiful flowers](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-09/chen_wenhui.jpg?itok=-uZrS1oB) 

 

 

 

   [### Yue-Rung Chen

 ](/people/yue-rung-chen) <yuerungchen@fas.harvard.edu>Language Instructor in Chinese

 

 

 

      ![A Chinese woman with brown hair and glasses smiles in front of a stack of ginormous books](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ealc/files/yuerung.jpg?itok=eZtrvvy1) 

 

 

 

   [### 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) 

 

 

 

   [### Mark C. Elliott

 ](/people/mark-c-elliott) <elliott3@fas.harvard.edu>Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History

Vice Provost for International Affairs

 

 

 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... 

 

 

      ![A man with blue eyes in a suit and a blue tie looks at the camera in front of Harvard buildings](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-01/07.27.23_Mark-Elliott_Headshot.jpeg?h=3e9d72a1&itok=_LZEntc1) 

 

 

 

  

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