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Meet the 2026-27 Graduate Student Associates
The Fairbank Center is pleased to announce this year’s GSA cohort of affiliated doctoral students For the 2026-27 academic year, six doctoral students will join…
Fall 2026 Acquisitions at the H.C. Fung Library
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Faculty Spotlight
Professor Michael Szonyi doesn’t mind that his students sometimes feel uncomfortable in his undergraduate class on rural China. In fact, when it comes to learning about the land reform movement in the early years following the Communist Party’s victory in 1949, when hundreds of thousands of landlords were executed and land was redistributed to the poorest, that’s exactly the point.
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Social Status in Ming China: One Pawnbroker’s Struggle to Become a Literatus
Yi Zhang is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and a 2025-2026 Graduate Student Associate of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Below, she…
Max A. Palys ’26 Awarded 2026 Taliesin Prize for Distinction in the Art of Learning
The Division of Arts and Humanities in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences awarded the 2026 Taliesin Prize for Distinction in the Art of Learning to Max A. Palys ̕ 26, a…
Reimagining the Past: Rhodes Scholar Helen He on Technology, Art, and Chinese History
Helen He ’26 graduated last spring with a bachelor’s degree in computer science and East Asian studies and a secondary in Classics. A 2026 Rhodes Scholar, Helen will continue her studies at…
Bringing Fujian’s Rural History to Life, One Document at a Time
A group of Harvard graduate students cluster around Jin Huaxia, the 33-year old Communist Party Secretary of Yuhu (Jade Pond), a village in the Fujian countryside, as he proudly shares…
Spotlight on Fairbank Center Research Grant Recipients
For many years, the Fairbank Center has supported undergraduate students who need to travel to China, Taiwan, or other locations to complete research for their theses with our Research Grants,…