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 to faculty members and doctoral students 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
1.9k+
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 Scholar, 2022 - 2023
Jie Gao is an assistant professor at the Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore. Her research examines contemporary government performance management reforms and their implications on public policy making and local governance, with a focus on the rise of the governance-by-targets regime in China. Her work in this area covers the political functions of performance management, target-based policymaking and implementation, bureaucratic gaming, and information politics. Her recent research explores bureaucratic gaming and China’s reform efforts to mitigate the consequences of gaming in a few key policy areas such... 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.