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
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Chinese Politics Training Program, 2018 - 2019
Shiyu (Anais) Zhang is a Ph.D. candidate in the Dept. of Government and Public Administration at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include political theory, citizenship theory, and Chinese intellectual history. Her dissertation aims to construct Arendtian citizenship by bringing Arendt into the contemporary citizenship theory debates. At HYI, she will examine how modern Chinese intellectuals construct idea(s) of citizenship to integrate western political ideas in solving Chinese political crisis in late 19th and early 20th century. Shiyu obtained her B.A (2012) in Journalism from Renmin University... 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.