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34 results for "Chinese Language Instructor"

34 results for "Chinese Language Instructor"

1930-1940

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1930-31, Spring Professor DeVargas visits from Yenching University and teaches one half-course: “Chinese 12: The Cultural Renaissance in China.” 1931, Oct. 30 HYI Trustees agree to invite Professor Serge Elisséeff to Harvard for visiting lectureships in...

Ge Kunhua

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Ge Kunhua (1838-1882) was the first Chinese language instructor at Harvard University. A locally prominent scholar and gentleman from the region of Ningbo, Ge was recruited to teach Chinese by Francis Knight. Knight, a native of Boston and longtime...

1940-1950

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1940 Harvard’s third and fourth Ph.D. degrees in Far Eastern Studies are awarded to Yen Yi Huang and Yueh-hwa Lin. Huang and Lin are graduates of Lingnan and Yenching universities, respectively, both of which were supported by the Harvard-Yenching...

Harvard ICCP Sparks Global Interest

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What does it take to keep up with the rise of China’s global presence in the classroom? The Chinese Language Program, as part of the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard, will host the first ever Harvard International Conference...

1920-1930

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1921-22 Zhao Yuanren is appointed to a one year renewable position at Harvard as Instructor of Chinese. In the spring of 1922 , Zhao offers the first class in Chinese to be taught at Harvard since the death of Ge Kunhua. The half-year course is entitled...

Nichimin Lu

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Nichimin LU received her B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature from Tsinghua University in 2014, and finished her Master’s degree in the Regional Studies - East Asian Program at Harvard in 2016. In EALC she looks into the poetic space and the poetics of...

James Haughton Woods

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James Haughton Woods (1864-1935) played a fundamental role in making the professional study of Asia a possibility at Harvard. A scholar of Greek and Indic philosophy, Woods graduated from Harvard University in 1887 with a degree in Philosophy and English...

XI. A Brief History of EALC

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Instruction in the languages and civilizations of East Asia began at Harvard in 1879, when courses in the Chinese language were first taught. A portrait of the instructor hired to teach these classes, Ge Kunhua (Ko K’un-hua), hangs by the entrance to the...

Spring 2021 East Asian Languages Placement Exams

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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...