First Fridays Lunch Talk Series Research Research expand_more Faculty Publications Faculty Publications expand_more Handbook of Japanese Semantics and Pragmatics Family Instructions for the Yan Clan and Other Works by Yan Zhitui (531–590s) The Chinese Empire in Local Society: Ming Military Institutions and Their Legacies First Fridays Lunch Talk Series First Fridays Lunch Talk Series expand_more Thomas Kelly - Book Burning and Chinese Literature Thomas Kelly - Book Burning and Chinese Literature expand_more Thomas Kelly - The Unfinished Book, c.1645 Michael Puett - Keynes, Friedman,… Han Feizi? Michael Puett - Keynes, Friedman,… Han Feizi? expand_more Michael Puett - On the Importance of Academic Collaboration Michael Puett - Possible Futures for Area Studies Michael Puett - The Comparative History Frameworks Project Shigehisa Kuriyama - Confessions of an Opsimath Shigehisa Kuriyama - Confessions of an Opsimath expand_more Shigehisa Kuriyama - Toward a History of Timeless Wisdom Shigehisa Kuriyama - How Western Medicine Transformed the Japanese Understanding of the Body: The Untold Story Mark Elliott - Farewell, Fei Xiaotong! New Departures in Thinking about Ethnic Policy in China Mark Elliott - Farewell, Fei Xiaotong! New Departures in Thinking about Ethnic Policy in China expand_more Mark Elliott - On the Tracks of 'Empire' in China Mark Elliott - Reinventing the Manchus: an Imperial People in Post-Imperial China Wai-yee Li: The Confucius Chronicles Wai-yee Li: The Confucius Chronicles expand_more Wai-yee Li - Lost and Found: Ming Objects in Qing China Wai-yee Li - The Taste of Water David Wang - Manchuria, the Northeast, or Dongbei? Placing a Literature Reader David Wang - Manchuria, the Northeast, or Dongbei? Placing a Literature Reader expand_more David Wang - Small Talk vs. Big Talk: Why Storytelling Matters in Contemporary China David Wang - The Lyrical in Epic Time: Chinese Intellectuals Through the 1949 Crisis Andrew Gordon - 'High speed growth,' 'mass middle class,' and 'lost decades' in Japan: the challenge of meta-narratives Andrew Gordon - 'High speed growth,' 'mass middle class,' and 'lost decades' in Japan: the challenge of meta-narratives expand_more Andrew Gordon - When History Meets Tourism: World Heritage Sites of Japan's Industrial Revolution Andrew Gordon - What's Happened to Japan? Karen Thornber - Gender Justice through Contemporary Asian and Asian Diaspora Literatures Karen Thornber - Gender Justice through Contemporary Asian and Asian Diaspora Literatures expand_more Karen Thornber - On the Medical Humanities Michael Szonyi - Idle Words from the Old Man at Yongtai Studio Michael Szonyi - Idle Words from the Old Man at Yongtai Studio expand_more Michael Szonyi - Modern China: A Village History Michael Szonyi - Temple Worship Practice in Southeast China Michael Szonyi - How to Dodge the Draft and Make it as a Pirate in Ming China David Howell - Do your kids read Confucius on the beach? They should. David Howell - Do your kids read Confucius on the beach? They should. expand_more David Howell - He Agreed to Edit a Journal. What Happened Next Will Stun You. David Howell - Peasant Militias of the Tokugawa David Atherton - Is There a Fish in This Text? David Atherton - Is There a Fish in This Text? expand_more David Atherton - The Kibyōshi Author Between Manuscript Draft and Printed Book David Atherton - Frontier Violence and Meaning Making in Early Modern Japanese Fiction Janet Gyatso - Indian Poetics and Plateau Politics: Tibetan Style Meets the Science of Ornaments Janet Gyatso - Indian Poetics and Plateau Politics: Tibetan Style Meets the Science of Ornaments expand_more Janet Gyatso - Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet Ryūichi Abé - Why do Two Buddhas Sit Side by Side in the Lotus Sutra? Ryūichi Abé - Why do Two Buddhas Sit Side by Side in the Lotus Sutra? expand_more Ryūichi Abé - The Pleasure of the Dharma for Gods: The Heart Sutra in Medieval Japan Ryūichi Abé - The Shingon Hasso Gyôjôzu James Robson - Bat Monks: Buddhism and Animal Analogies Zahlten, Park, and Puett - The Great Unresolved Questions Sun Joo Kim - Yu Tae-ch'ing Family Documents at the Harvard-Yenching Library Sun Joo Kim - Yu Tae-ch'ing Family Documents at the Harvard-Yenching Library expand_more Sun Joo Kim - Government Lending in Late Chosŏn Korea Sun Joo Kim - Voice from the North William M. Tsutsui - Thinking Through Godzilla Si Nae Park - Sounds of Reading in Chosŏn Korea Si Nae Park - Sounds of Reading in Chosŏn Korea expand_more Si Nae Park - Parthenogenesis or Hybridity? Storytelling and the Politics of Language in Premodern Korea Alexander Zahlten - Electricity, Circuits, and Film in Japan Stephen Owen - Too Many Commentaries: Rereading the “Nine Songs” Xiaofei Tian - Writing Empire, Writing Self in Early Medieval China Xiaofei Tian - Writing Empire, Writing Self in Early Medieval China expand_more Xiaofei Tian - Current Research on the Three Kingdoms Period David Sena - Fudging Ancestry in an Early Chinese Bronze Inscription Nara Dillon - China's Regressive Welfare State: What Were They Thinking? Jie Li - Madame Mao and Cinema: Actress, Censor, Critic, and Producer Helen Hardacre - Current Debate on Constitutional Revision in Japan Tomiko Yoda - Girlscape David McCann - On Korean Poetry The Library of Chinese Humanities China Humanities Seminar Research Portal for Ming-Qing History Research Portal for Ming-Qing History expand_more for Harvard affilliates for non-Harvard affiliates China Biographical Database Project The Qingming Scroll Gateway to Premodern Korean Studies East Asian Media Ecologies East Asian Media Ecologies expand_more Conferences Conferences expand_more Terms of Media II: ACTIONS Conference Report Lecture Series Lecture Series expand_more Expo '70 in Japan: Art, Surveillance, Multimedia From Scroll to Virtual Reality: Navigating Urban Space in China Information Wave and Cinema Reinvented in 1980s China After Effects: Compositing Emotion in Japanese Media Art March 6, 2026Andrew Gordon - Industrial Heritage in Rhyme
