Harvard College ’20 (Eliot House) AB, Social Studies and East Asian Studies East Asian Studies was a very natural progression from my background in Social Studies, as I was already starting to develop a focused interest in the study of Chinese pop culture...
Harvard College ‘07 (Cabot House) AB, East Asian Studies MA, Regional Studies East Asia JD, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law LLM, University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law Tiffany Lee initially chose to concentrate in East...
European Dream about Chinese Poetry in Sinological Research: The Cases of Vasiliv Alekseyev (1881–1951) and Jaroslav Průšek (1906–1980) It is a well-known fact that since the late nineteenth century many Western modernists were fascinated by ancient...
The Mechanics of Cultural Change in China in a Period of Disunity Situated at the epicenter of the “Tang-Song Transition,” the tenth-century interregnum between the Tang and Song dynasties was a period of rapid change. This talk will focus on the dramatic...
The Eternal Frontier of China’s Cosmopolitan Empire:Changing Attitudes Towards Ethnocultural Others in Tang-Dynasty Texts The seventh and early-eighth centuries have often been considered the period of “China’s Cosmopolitan Empire” on account of their...
Harvard College '98 AB, East Asian Studies My interest in Asia stems from my family background. My mother is Vietnamese and my father is African-American, and a veteran of the war there in the 1960s and 70s. I did not grow up speaking Vietnamese, so I was...
Chinese Exam Instructions Test Date: Wednesday, January 13 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm ET Written Test (composition; grammar & reading) 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm ET Oral Test (you will be assigned a 5-minute test slot between 3:30 pm and 5:30 pm. A Zoom link with your...