
opens in a new windowWilliam Alford 安守廉
Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law; Director, East Asian Legal Studies Program
William Alford 安守廉
Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law; Director, East Asian Legal Studies Program
William P. Alford is a scholar of Chinese law and legal history. His books include To Steal a Book is an Elegant Offense: Intellectual Property Law in Chinese Civilization (Stanford University Press 1995)
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opens in a new windowDavid Yang 杨宇凡
Assistant Professor of Economics
David Yang 杨宇凡
Assistant Professor of Economics
David Yang is an Assistant Professor of Economics. His research focuses on political economy, behavioral and experimental economics, economic history, and cultural economics. In particular, David studies the forces of stability and forces of changes in authoritarian regimes, drawing lessonsRead More

opens in a new windowBarry Bloom 白瑞·布隆
Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Professor of Public Health; Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
Barry Bloom 白瑞·布隆
Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Professor of Public Health; Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
A leading scientist in the areas of infectious diseases, vaccines, and global health and former consultant to the White House, Dr. Barry Bloom continues to pursue an active interest in bench science as the principal investigator of a laboratory researchingRead More

opens in a new windowPeter K. Bol 包弼德
Vice Provost for Advances in Learning; Charles H Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Peter K. Bol 包弼德
Vice Provost for Advances in Learning; Charles H Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
As Vice Provost, Peter K. Bol is responsible for HarvardX, the Harvard Initiative in Learning and Teaching, and research on the science of learning. Together with William Kirby, Bol teaches ChinaX (SW12x), a Harvard course that has a global enrollmentRead More

opens in a new windowJames Cheng 鄭炯文
Librarian of the Harvard-Yenching Library
James Cheng 鄭炯文
Librarian of the Harvard-Yenching Library
James Cheng is the Librarian at the Harvard-Yenching Library, the largest East Asian library maintained by any American university. The library's collections stand at 1.3 million volumes, including approximately 800,000 in Chinese, 340,000 in Japanese, 170,000 in Korean, 22,000Read More

opens in a new windowPaul A. Cohen 柯文
Professor of History Emeritus, Wellesley College
Paul A. Cohen 柯文
Professor of History Emeritus, Wellesley College
Paul Cohen retired from Wellesley College in 2000 after teaching Chinese history for 35 years. He has been affiliated with the Fairbank Center since 1965, and he continues to research and write in the field of Chinese history, focusing mainlyRead More

opens in a new windowRichard Cooper 理查德·库珀
Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics
Richard Cooper 理查德·库珀
Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics
Richard N. Cooper is Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics at Harvard University. He is a member of the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Executive Panel of the US Chief of Naval Operations, and the BrookingsRead More

opens in a new windowNara Dillon 温奈良
Senior Lecturer on Government
Nara Dillon 温奈良
Senior Lecturer on Government
Nara Dillon received her B.A. in history from Williams College and her Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. From 2003 to 2007 she taught Chinese politics and comparative politics as an Assistant Professor at Bard College.
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opens in a new windowMark C. Elliott 欧立德
Vice Provost for International Affairs; Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History; former Director of the Fairbank Center
Mark C. Elliott 欧立德
Vice Provost for International Affairs; Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History; former Director of the Fairbank Center
Mark C. Elliott is the Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the Department of History at Harvard University.
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opens in a new windowJoseph Fewsmith 傅士卓
Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University
Joseph Fewsmith 傅士卓
Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University
Joseph Fewsmith is Professor of International Relations and Political Science at Boston University. He is the author or editor of eight books, including, most recently, The Logic and Limits of Political Reform in China (January 2013).
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opens in a new windowRowan Flad 傅羅文
Professor of Anthropology
Rowan Flad 傅羅文
Professor of Anthropology
His research focuses on the emergence and development of complex society during the late Neolithic period and the Bronze Age in China. He has conducted excavations at a salt production site in the eastern Sichuan Basin and has recently completedRead More

opens in a new windowArunabh Ghosh 郭旭光
Associate Professor of History
Arunabh Ghosh 郭旭光
Associate Professor of History
Arunabh Ghosh is a historian of modern China, with research and teaching interests that span the social, economic, and intellectual histories of twentieth century China, transnational histories of science and statecraft, and Sino-Indian history.
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opens in a new windowMerle Goldman 戈德曼
Professor of History Emerita, Boston University
Merle Goldman 戈德曼
Professor of History Emerita, Boston University
Merle Goldman is the author of a number of books on modern Chinese history and culture. Her last two books, China’s Intellectuals: Advise and Dissent (1981) and Sowing the Seeds of Democracy in China (1994), were selected by the NewRead More

opens in a new windowSteven Goldstein 戈迪溫
Sophia Smith Professor of Government, Emeritus, Smith College
Steven Goldstein 戈迪溫
Sophia Smith Professor of Government, Emeritus, Smith College
Research interests: Chinese domestic and foreign policy, mainland China-Taiwan relations and US-Taiwan relations.
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opens in a new windowSusan Greenhalgh 葛苏珊
Professor of Anthropology
Susan Greenhalgh 葛苏珊
Professor of Anthropology
Susan Greenhalgh is Professor of Anthropology and John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society at Harvard University. Before moving to Harvard, she was Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine and, before that, Senior ResearchRead More