Asian Studies Programs
Faculty of the Council on Asian Studies
William C. Kirby, Edith and Benjamin Geisinger Professor of History and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (Chair)
William P. Alford, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law (Law School) (on leave fall term)
Peter K. Bol, Harvard College Professor and Professor of Chinese History (on leave 2002-2003)
Harold Bolitho, Professor of Japanese History
Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs (on leave spring term)
James K.M. Cheng, Librarian of the Harvard-Yenching Library
Diana L. Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies (on leave fall term)
Carter J. Eckert, Professor of Korean History
Andrew Gordon, Professor of History (on leave 2002-03)
William C. Hsiao, K. T. Li Professor of Economics (Public Health)
Yasheng Huang, Associate Professor of Business (Business School)
Wilt Lukas Idema, Professor of Chinese Literature (on leave 2001-02)
Akira Iriye, Charles Warren Professor of American History
Wesley M. Jacobsen, Professor of the Practice of the Japanese Language
Devesh Kapur, Associate Professor of Government (on leave 2002-03)
Arthur Kleinman, Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Faculties of Medicine and Arts and Sciences
Philip A. Kuhn, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Leo Ou-Fan Lee, Professor of Chinese Literature (on leave 2001-02)
Wai-yee Li, Professor of Chinese Literature (on leave 2002-03)
Roderick MacFarquhar, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science
David McCann, Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Literature
Michael B. McElroy, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies
F. Warren McFarlan, Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business (Business School)
Robert D. Mowry, Senior Lecturer on History of Art and Architecture
Stephen Owen, James Bryant Conant University Professor (on leave 2002-2003)
Dwight H. Perkins, Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy
Elizabeth J. Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government
Susan J. Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics (on leave spring term)
Michael James Puett, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities
John Mark Ramseyer, Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies (Law School)
Michael Robin Reich, Professor of Population and International Health (Publich Health)
Peter G. Rowe, Raymond Garbe Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and Dean of the Graduate School of Design (Design School)
Jay Rubin, Takashima Professor of Japanese Humanities
Anthony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs (Kennedy School)
Hue-Tam Ho Tai, Kenneth T. Young Professor of Sino-Vietnamese History
Wei-Ming Tu, Harvard-Yenching Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy and of Confucian Studies
Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp, Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies
James L. Watson, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society
Michael Y. Yoshino, Herman C. Krannert Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
By resolutions of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of April 12, 1972, and April 25, 2001, the Council on Asian Studies and its Executive Committee are appointed by the Dean in consultation with the Faculty Committee to supervise such interdepartmental and other committees concerned with Asian Studies as the Dean may designate.
The A.M. program in Regional Studies—East Asia and the PhD program in History and East Asian Languages are supervised by the Council and are described below.
The A.M. Concentration in East Asian Studies is advised and supported by the Council, and is described under East Asian Languages and Civilizations. Courses on East Asian languages, early history, literature, and thought are listed under East Asian Languages and Civilizations.
Programs in South Asian Studies and in Inner Asian and Altaic Studies are advised and supported by the Council and are listed separately in the catalog.
Other courses in Asian Studies are listed under the Core Curriculum, Anthropology, Economics, Fine Arts, Government, History, Linguistics, Psychology, Sociology, the Study of Religion, and other departments.
The Harvard University Asia Center was created in 1997. Its Steering and Executive Committees are drawn from the Faculty of the Council on Asian Studies. The Center coordinates and supports research, teaching, and public programs on Asia throughout the University. The Center sponsors lectures, seminars, and conferences; supports faculty research; publishes books and journals; funds research and travel grants to undergraduate and graduate students; administers Harvard’s National Resource Center for East Asian Studies, and manages the competition for Title VI Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships for graduate and professional students. The Center publishes a bi-weekly calendar of events during the Academic Year. The Center’s main office is located in Coolidge Hall, on the third floor.
Faculty of the Standing Committee on the A.M. in Regional Studies–East Asia
Hue-Tam Ho Tai, Kenneth T. Young Professor of Sino-Vietnamese History (Chair)
Eileen Cheng-yin Chow, Assistant Professor of Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies (on leave 2002-2003)
Edwin A. Cranston, Professor of Japanese Literature (on leave 2001-02)
Margarita Estevez-Abe, Assistant Professor of Government
Wilt Lukas Idema, Professor of Chinese Literature (on leave 2001-02)
David McCann, Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Literature
The program in Regional Studies–East Asia, leading to a Master of Arts degree, is a basic preparation (1) for students who intend to go on to PhD work in an East Asian specialization; and (2) for students who wish to equip themselves for nonacademic work. The program, which normally requires two years for completion, aims to make the student broadly conversant with the societies of the region, and also to give him or her a sound knowledge of one of the languages of the area. Details may be obtained from the Committee’s offices at Coolidge Hall 102, 1737 Cambridge Street, MA, 02138 or (617) 495-3777.
Faculty of the Standing Committee on the PhD in History and East Asian Languages
Philip A. Kuhn, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations (Chair)
Peter K. Bol, Harvard College Professor and Professor of Chinese History (on leave 2002-2003)
Harold Bolitho, Professor of Japanese History
Carter J. Eckert, Professor of Korean History
Andrew Gordon, Professor of History (on leave 2002-03)
Akira Iriye, Charles Warren Professor of American History
William C. Kirby, Edith and Benjamin Geisinger Professor of History and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Hue-Tam Ho Tai, Kenneth T. Young Professor of Sino-Vietnamese History
Established in 1941 to administer the PhD in History and Far Eastern Languages, this program was renamed by a Faculty vote of April 11, 1972, without other modification of its program. The Committee, drawn from the two departments of History and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, administers a program leading to the PhD degree. The program in general combines study of the Chinese and Japanese languages (and sometimes other East Asian languages such as Korean, Mongolian, or Vietnamese) with advanced study and research in East Asian history. Normally this requires four courses (or equivalent) in the primary language, two and one-half in the secondary, and preparation for an oral examination in three history fields, of which two are ordinarily East Asian, and one Western, depending on the individual’s preparation and program. In some cases, fulfilling these requirements may entail taking a fourth field. Further information may be obtained from the office of the Committee, at Vanserg 206, 10 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02138.
Graduate Courses of Reading and Research
*Regional Studies — East Asia 300. Reading and Research
Catalog Number: 4614
Hue-Tam Ho Tai 6079 and members of the Committee
Designed to provide students with the opportunity to do reading and research in an approved area of their choice under the direction of a member of the Committee.
Note: Open only to students affiliated with the Regional Studies–East Asia program.
*Regional Studies — East Asia 310. Thesis Development
Catalog Number: 8453
Hue-Tam Ho Tai 6079, Carter J. Eckert 1178, Robert M. Gimello 9240, Helen Hardacre 3191 (on leave spring term), Arthur Kleinman 7473, Michael James Puett 1227, James L. Watson 2172 and members of the Committee
Designed to allow students to develop previous research or a previously written paper into the A.M. thesis, under the direction of an appropriate faculty advisor.
Note: Open only to students affiliated with the Regional Studies–East Asia program. Counts as course credit, but not towards the basic course requirements for the degree.