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Winter Acquisitions at the H. C. Fung Library: New Publications by Tyler Jost, Kevin Rudd, Eva Dou, Koji Hirata, and More
Announcing Our Spring 2025 class of Visiting Scholars
For the Spring 2025 semester, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies is pleased to welcome three new Visiting Scholars who are working on issues related to contemporary China….
Faculty Spotlight
Karen L. Thornber is Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, as well as Richard L. Menschel Faculty Director of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard University. As a cultural historian and scholar of Asian literature, she believes deeply that literature is a force for good in the pursuit of social justice. Conducting research in more than a dozen Asian and European languages, modern and classical, she has authored six scholarly books, 80 scholarly articles/chapters, several (co)edited volumes, and Japanese literature translations. Her 2024 book, Gender Justice and Contemporary Asian Literatures, was the focus of a roundtable at the Modern Language Association’s recent 2025 meeting.
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Faculty Spotlight: To Karen Thornber, literature is a vital force in fighting the world’s greatest challenges
Karen L. Thornber is Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, as well as Richard L. Menschel Faculty Director of the Derek Bok…
Meet Our Fellows 2024-25: Jason Chan
We continue our series of Q+As introducing you to the Fairbank Center’s new Fellows with Jason Chan, whose research is being supported by a 2024-25 Desmond and Whitney Shum Fellowship….
Transforming the Work of Literary Sinitic Studies Through Generative AI: A Q+A with the Digital China Initiative’s Kwok-leong Tang
For the great majority of Fridays during this Fall semester, the Digital China Initiative—which studies the impact of digital technologies in the field of China Studies—is offering workshops on Generative…
Support for a New Generation of China Scholars: Spotlight on Yuhua Wang
In 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Yuhua Wang, Professor of Government at Harvard University, and a group of other leading scholars of Chinese politics saw a pressing need:…
Meet Our Fellows 2024-25: Sarah Plovnick
Last week, it was our pleasure to introduce you to Hardy Stewart, the Fairbank Center’s new Hou Family Pre-Doctoral Fellow in Taiwan Studies. We are now happy to introduce you to Sarah Plovnick, our…