East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Rebecca Wu studies Chinese legal history, focusing on the late imperial and the Republican periods. 

Rebecca graduated from Princeton University in 2025 with an A.B. in History (magna cum laude); her thesis on petitioning practices in late-Ming China was...

Mengyuan Li 李梦媛 received her B.A. in Chinese History from Nankai University and her M.A. in Asian Studies from the University of British Columbia. Her Master's thesis examines the intellectual development of the prominent seventeenth-century Chinese...

• Regions: China; Eurasia; Europe; Iberia; Japan; Low Countries
• Times: 16th to 18th centuries
• Themes: Cultural History; History of the Book; History of Religion; History of Science; Intellectual History

Daniel Said Monteiro received his Ph.D. in...

• Region: Korea
• Times: 15th to 19th centuries
• Theme: Social History

Sun Joo Kim is Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. After completing an undergraduate...

Janet Gyatso works on intellectual history and literature in early modern Tibet. Her books include Being Buddhist in a Human World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet (2015) and Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of...

Region: China
Time: 16th century; 17th century; 18th century; 19th century
Theme: Chinese Literature; Cultural History; History of Science; Intellectual History

Joo-hyeon Oh is a Ph.D. candidate from Harvard’s East Asian Languages and Civilizations program...

Yitian Li works on the intellectual and social history of early modern China. Her dissertation focuses on statecraft theories and practice from a local perspective during the Southern Song, the Yuan, and the early Ming dynasties. She is also broadly...

• Region(s): Korea
• Time Period(s): 17th century; 18th century; 19th century
• Theme(s): Korean Literature; History of the Body; History of the Book

Si Nae Park specializes in the study of the literature and literary practices of premodern Korea...

Region: China
Time: 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century
Theme: Chinese Literature, Early Modern Drama, History of the Body, History of Gender and Sexuality, Intellectual History

Wai-yee Li teaches Chinese literature at Harvard University. Her research...