About the Harvard-Yenching Institute
Our mission
The Institute is an independent foundation dedicated to advancing higher education in Asia in the humanities and social sciences, with special attention to the study of Asian culture.
About the Institute
The Institute offers fellowship programs for overseas study and research to doctoral students and younger faculty members at leading East, Southeast, and South Asian universities in all fields of the humanities and social sciences.
The Institute also supports several publication series at Harvard and in Asia, publishes a book review series and working paper series, and provides support for the Harvard-Yenching Library as well as other research initiatives.
Facts & Figures
60+
Partner Institutions across Asia
1928
Year founded
1.8k+
Fellowships granted to faculty and grad students in Asia
Our People
"To date nearly 1200 faculty and over 600 graduate students from Asia have received Institute fellowships, including over 400 doctoral and M.A. students who have received their degrees with Institute support."
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Alumni Spotlight
Visiting Fellow, 2005 - 2006
LIU Ying received her PhD in Comparative Literature from Sichuan University and currently serves as a professor at the College of Literature & Journalism, Sichuan University. She had been a HYI visiting fellow from August 2005 to December 2006, and a visiting scholar to the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor during 2016-2017. Her fields of study include translation studies and oversea studies of Chinese literature. At the same time, she is also interested in linguistics and teaching Chinese as a second language. She is the author of On Anglophone Studies... Read More
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Partners in Asia
The Harvard-Yenching Institute currently enjoys partnerships with more than sixty universities and research centers in mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, and India.