HARVARD-YENCHING HARVARD-YENCHING INSTITUTE 2 Divinity Avenue INSTITUTE Cambridge, MA 02138 P 617.495.3369 F 617.495.7798 Vanserg Hall, Suite 20 25 Francis Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 P 617.495.4050 F 617.496.7206 WWW.HARVARD-YENCHING.ORG FOUNDED NINETY YEARS AGO through the generosity of the estate of Charles M. Hall, the Harvard-Yenching Institute is an independent foundation dedicated to advancing higher education in Asia in the humanities and social sciences, with special attention to the study of Chinese culture. Located on the campus of Harvard University, the Institute currently enjoys partnerships with more than fifty universities and research centers in China, Contents Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Singapore, India, Vietnam, Thailand, and Cambodia. We support doctoral scholarships, visiting fellowships, academic publications, advanced training programs, conferences HISTORY and other scholarly initiatives—in Asia, at Harvard Harvard-Yenching Institute 2 University, and elsewhere—intended to promote Harvard-Yenching Library 4 graduate and post-graduate research in Asian FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMS studies (and other topics in the humanities and social HYI Fellowship Programs 7 sciences) and to increase scholarly communication HYI Partner Institutions 11 among Asian scholars and between them and their Alumni Opportunities 12 counterparts in other regions of the world. To learn Alumni Profiles 14 more both about us and about Asia, we invite you PUBLICATIONS & PROJECTS to visit our website, www.harvard-yenching.org. HJAS and HYI Monograph Series 20 HYI Support for Publications in Asia 21 New Initiatives 25 Elizabeth J. Perry Harvard-Yenching Institute Director EVENTS Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government Academic Events 28 Harvard University Social Events 29 HYI INFORMATION Website 30 Contact Information 31 中文 / 日本語 / / Tiêng Viêt / 32 HISTORY History Harvard-Yenching Institute Since the 1950s, the Institute’s core activity has been In its 90 year history, the to offer fellowships for overseas study and research to Harvard-Yenching Institute doctoral scholars and younger faculty members at leading has had seven directors, The Harvard-Yenching Institute (HYI) was founded in 1928 with East and Southeast Asian universities in all fields of the each a member of the funding provided solely from the estate of Charles M. Hall, the inventor humanities and social sciences. Although the Institute has facultyof Harvard University. of a process for refining aluminum and the founder of the Aluminum a special commitment to promoting the study of Asian culture, its support is not limited to that field. To date over Serge Elisséeff Company of America (ALCOA). 1,000 faculty from Asia have received Institute fellowships 1934-1956 and over 300 doctoral students have received their Edwin O. Reischauer Although the Institute has close ties with Harvard degrees with Institute support. In addition to providing University, it is a legally and fiscally independent public fellowships, the Institute supports publications through 1956-1964 charitable trust. Mr. Hall’s charge to the trustees of his Harvard’s Monograph Series as well as overseas John Pelzel estate was to promote higher education in Asia and to publications in Chinese and Vietnamese, conferences, 1964-1975 that end the trustees of his estate partnered with Harvard workshops, and training programs. University in order to fulfill the Harvard-Yenching Institute’s Albert Craig The Harvard-Yenching Institute has a nine-member mission as stated in its Articles of Incorporation, “to 1976-1986 conduct and provide research, instruction and publication Board of Directors, consisting of three each representing in the culture of China and/or elsewhere in Continental Harvard University and the United Board for Christian Patrick Hanan Asia and Japan and/or Turkey and the Balkan States in Higher Education in Asia, and three independent 1987-1995 Europe, by founding, developing, supporting, maintaining members with significant experience in Asia. In addition, Charles Martin Hall and/or conducting one or more educational institutions a HYI Faculty Advisory Committee functions as an Tu Weiming and/or by supporting in whole or in part, co-operating informal advisory group to the Director, offering general 1996-2008 with or joining or affiliating with other institutions now advice on Institute operations and academic directions. in existence or hereafter formed...” Elizabeth J. Perry 2008- In the 1930s, the Institute supported the development of what became the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard and founded the Harvard- Yenching Library as well as the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. During the 1930s and 40s, the Institute provided direct support to Yenching University, because of its focus on the humanities, along with five other colleges in China, Fukien, Lingnan, Nanjing, Shantung Christian and West China Union Universities, and Allahabad Agricultural Institute in India. 2 HARVARD-YENCHING INSTITUTE HARVARD-YENCHING INSTITUTE 3 HISTORY The Harvard-Yenching Library is the largest university library for East Asian research in the Western world. A Japanese collection was similarly launched in 1914 when two Japanese professors, Hattori Unokichi (服部宇之吉) and Anesaki Masaharu (姉崎正治), both of Tokyo Imperial University, came to lecture at Harvard and donated several important groups of Japanese publications on Sinology and Buddhism to the Harvard College Library. In 1928 these two collections, then consisting of 4,526 volumes in Chinese and 1,668 volumes in Japanese, were transferred from Widener Library to the newly established Chinese-Japanese Library of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, which had itself been independently incorporated that year in Massachusetts. Dr. A. Kaiming Ch’iu (裘開明), a renowned bibliophile and then a Harvard PhD candidate, who had begun cataloging the collections a year before, was appointed librarian of the Chinese-Japanese Library. With financial support from the Harvard-Yenching Institute, the expert bibliographical knowledge of Dr. Ch’iu, and the assistance of Yenching University Library in Peking, the library’s collections grew rapidly. At the end of its first decade the library’s holdings amounted to more than 110,000 volumes —18 times the original size. Although the library first collected only in Chinese and Japanese, with the major emphasis on the humanities, subsequent expansion in Harvard’s East Asian curriculum led to a similar expansion in the Harvard-Yenching library’s scope. Tibetan, Mongolian, and Manchu publications were added, as were Western- language monographs and journals. A Korean collection was inaugurated in 1951, and a Library Vietnamese collection was added in 1973. Social science publications were given increased attention in the post-World War II years, and collecting in this area has been greatly accelerated since the mid-1960s. Thus, the once predominantly humanistic collection Although as an organized library it dates back to has gradually evolved into a research library that encompasses East Asian materials in all of the academic disciplines, including, to some extent, the natural and applied sciences. only 1928, the collection can trace its beginning back In 1965 the name Chinese-Japanese Library of the Harvard-Yenching Institute was to 1879, when Chinese was first offered as part of Harvard changed to Harvard-Yenching Library in order to reflect more accurately the expanded University’s regular curriculum. In that year a group of nature of the library’s collections. The management of the library, which had been under the Harvard-Yenching Institute from the beginning, was transferred in 1976 to the Bostonians engaged in the China trade invited Ge Kunhua Harvard College Library. (戈鯤化), a Chinese scholar from the city of Ningboo in Zhejiang Province, to give instruction in Chinese at Harvard. Photograph by Peter Vandewarker, courtesy of Harvard College Library The small collection of books that was bought for his courses, the first acquisitions in any East Asian language at Harvard College Library, marked the beginning of a Chinese collection. 4 HARVARD-YENCHING INSTITUTE HARVARD-YENCHING INSTITUTE 5 PROGRAMS Fellowship Programs The Harvard-Yenching Institute has several fellowship HYI Fellowship Programs programs that bring scholars from Asia to conduct research at Harvard University, to participate in special For additional information, please visit www.harvard-yenching.org/fellowship. training programs, or to attend graduate school through Visiting Scholars Program Advanced Training Programs a Joint Scholarship Program. A program for younger faculty members for Field Development in the humanities and social sciences The Advanced Training Program is a recent In conjunction with the mission of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, nominated scholars should to undertake 10 months of independent initiative of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, be working in the humanities and social sciences with an emphasis on culture. Applicants do research at Harvard University. Those in which a small group of promising young not have to be working on Asian studies topics to be eligible. We seek outstanding scholars pursuing Asian and comparative studies Asian scholars in particular fields of the whose work is academic rather than applied. Scholars whose research is comparative, and are especially welcome. Preference will humanities and social sciences are brought includes one or more Asian countries, are especially welcome. be given to younger