In Memoriam

Edwin Cranston began graduate study at the University of California at Berkeley, then transferred to Stanford University, where he earned a Ph.D. in Japanese literature in 1966. His Harvard career began in 1965 as a Japanese language instructor. The...

Carter J. Eckert was born in Chicago and trained in European ancient and medieval history at Lawrence College in Wisconsin, and also at Harvard. He subsequently developed a strong interest in Korea and East Asia as a result of his experience as a Peace...

Patrick Hanan of Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Chinese Literature, Emeritus, at Harvard University, passed away peacefully on April 26, 2014. He is the author of The Chinese Short Story, The Chinese Vernacular Story (a...

With great sadness, we note the passing of Howard Hibbett on March 13, 2019. Prof. Hibbett was a central part of our Japanese Studies community on campus, and a beloved colleague and dear friend to many faculty, students, and staff during his many years...

On Monday, February 5, 2018, Ms. Yori Oda of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Tokyo, Japan, passed away after a recent illness. Born in Tokyo before the Second World War, as a young child Yori Oda lived with her family in the cosmopolitan city of Shanghai...

Stephen Owen was a sinologist specializing in premodern literature, lyric poetry, and comparative poetics. Much of his work focused on the middle period of Chinese literature (200-1200), though he also wrote on literature of the early period and the Qing...