The Harvard-Yenching Institute has named its Visiting Scholars for the 1997-98 academic year. The scholars come from a pool of candidates nominated by major universities in Asia and selected by a committee of Harvard faculty chaired by Arthur von Mehren, the Story Professor of Law Emeritus. The scholars will conduct independent research in the humanities and social sciences.

Visiting Scholars

The Visiting Scholars are as follows:

China: Chen Yangu, Institute of Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Cheng Wei, Institute of Foreign Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; He Dezhang, Institute of History, Wuhan University; Hu Wei, Department of International Politics, Fudan University; Li Minju, Department of Archaeology, Peking University; Peng Bangben, Department of History, Sichuan University; Qiu Zeqi, Department of Sociology, Peking University; Xu Shaohua, Department of Archaeology, Wuhan University; Yu Jin-yao, Institute of History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Yuan Ding, Department of History, Zhongshan University.

Hong Kong: George C.K. Jor, English Language Teaching Unit, University of Hong Kong; Tong Qingsheng, Department of English, University of Hong Kong.

Japan: Maegawa Keiji, Institute of History and Anthropology, Tsukuba University; Miyamoto Kazuo, Department of History, Kyushu University; Takahashi Hiroyuki, Department of Classics, Kyoto University.

Korea: Bang In, Department of Philosophy, Kyungpook National University; Chang Jisang, Department of Economics, Kyungpook National University; Sohn Hyang-sook, Linguistics, Kyungpook National University; Song Ki Ho, Department of Korean History, Seoul National University.

Taiwan: Chang Wei-an, Institute of Sociology and Anthropology, National Tsinghua University; Hsieh Shih-Chung, Department of Anthropology, National Taiwan University.

Vietnam: Le Dinh Ba, Department of History, Dalat University; Nguyen Ngan Hoa, Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, Institute of Social Sciences in Ho Chi Minh City.

Exchange Program

In an Institute exchange program, a number of Harvard undergraduates and graduates have been selected to spend one academic year at universities in Asia. The students and their universities are as follows:

Peking University: Anthony Greenberg (junior), Montira Horayangura ('97), Margaret Ou (junior), Matthew Stephensen ('97).

Fudan University: Stephan Bosshart (junior) and Irene Cheng ('97).

Nanjing University: Erika Evasdottir (graduate student) and Loh-sze Leung ('97).

Keio University: Robbi Miller ('97) and Jonathan Harlow (sophomore).

In addition, the Harvard-Yenching Institute has established two new fellowship awards to honor two longstanding members of its board of trustees. The Daniel Ingalls Fellowship will be awarded annually to a scholar from South Asia or the former Soviet Union to come to Harvard for a period of 6 to 12 months and the Nathan Pusey Fellowship will be awarded to an East Asian "public intellectual" to spend up to a year at Harvard.

The Harvard-Yenching Institute was founded in 1928 with funding provided by the estate of Charles M. Hall, and is a nonprofit foundation dedicated to the advancement of higher education in the humanities and social sciences in East and Southeast Asia.