Recent Alumni News
November 2011 – Former HYI Doctoral Scholar Kabashima Ikuo (Harvard DSP 1977-79) is the current Governor of Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. Click here to read the Social Science Research Council article "Professor-Turned-Governor Ikuo Kabashima".
October 2011 – Former HYI Vsiting Scholar Kinnia Yau Shuk-Ting (VS 2010-11) is Editor of the recently published book East Asian Cinema and Cultural Heritage: From China, Hong Kong, Taiwan to Japan and South Korea ( New York: Palgrave Macmillan, October 2011).
August 2011 – Former HYI Vsiting Scholar Peng Guoxiang (VS 2007-08) moved to Peking University from Tsinghua University and is jointly affiliated with the Philosophy Department and the newly established Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies (IAHS). He is a professor of Chinese philosophy, religions and intellectual history in the Philosophy Department and a research fellow and director of the Center for Cutural China Studies at the IAHS.
July 2011 – Former HYI Visiting Scholar Zhu Xufeng (VS 2008-09) will have his paper on China's think tanks published in the next issue of The China Quarterly (Vol. 207, Sept, 2011). The paper, entitled "Government Advisors or Public Advocates? Roles of Think Tanks in China from the Perspective of Regional Variations", was written during his stay at the Harvard-Yenching Institute and was first presented at the Harvard Fairbank Center Seminar in 2008. Professor Zhu is currently at the Zhou Enlai School of Government, Nankai University.
May 2011 – Former HYI Visiting Scholar Jeong Jong-Ho (VS 2008-09) will have his paper on the restructuring of migrant settlements in Beijing published in the journal Habitat International in July 2011. The paper, titled "From illegal migrant settlements to central business and residential districts: Restructuring of urban space in Beijing’s migrant enclaves", was first presented during his year as a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute. Professor Jeong is currently at the Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University.
Former HYI Visiting Scholar Cao Jin (VS 2009-10) recently co-taught a class on gender and sexuality with Harvard Professor Bradley Epps. The class was taught at Fudan University, where Professor Cao teaches in the School of Journalism. To view a picture of the class, please click here.
Professor Jiang Bowei (Coordinate Research Scholar, 2009-10) and Professor Michael Szonyi (Professor of Chinese History, Harvard) have recently published an article together: 国家、地方社会とジェンダー政策——戦地金門の女性の役割およびイメージの再現 ("Nation-state, Local society, and Gender Policy: Reproduction of Female Roles and Representations in Militarized Jinmen"). It appeared in 地域研究, Vol. 11 No 1 (2011), pp 88-128. This article was written while Prof. Jiang was a Coordinate Research Scholar at HYI, working with Professor Szonyi of the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations.
[Due to an update to our website, alumni news from 2010 and early 2011 has been misplaced. We are working to fix this problem.]
November 2009 - Jun Qian (HYI Scholar 1996-97; Dept. of English, Peking University) was awarded the Jan Masaryk Bronze Medal in September 2009. The medal was established by the Czech Department of Foreign Affairs and is awarded to those who have made a remarkable contribution in promoting Czech culture in a foreign country. In Professor Qian's case, he was awarded for introducing to China the study of the Prague School. Professor Jun Qian's research project during his year at Harvard (1996-97) eventually led to the production of an award-winning monograph (1998) which was the first in China to cover the Prague School.
April 2009 - Chu Guofei (Visiting Fellow 2007-2008) returned to Beijing in January 2009, where she will graduate this summer. After receiving her degree she will begin employment as an Editor of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Review(中国社会科学院院报), a newspaper published by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences with an audience of scholars and students in China.
January 2009 — Dr. Chang So-an (張壽安) , Research Fellow, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, was a coordinate researcher with the Harvard-Yenching Institute during the academic year 2002-03. She came back to Harvard for a short term research stay, and visited us in January 2009.
October 2008 — Huang Chungao (HYI Visiting Scholar 00-01, Associate 01-02) was in town for a short visit. A visiting Fulbright scholar at Brown University for AY2008-09, Dr. Huang is currently doing a project about medieval studies in USA during the 20th century. He is an Associate Professor in the History Department at Peking University, where he teaches medieval history. Our warmest welcome and best wishes to Dr. Huang!
