Professor Palepu's current research focuses on strategy and governance. In the area of strategy, his recent focus has been on the globalization of emerging markets, particularly India and China, and the resulting opportunities and challenges for western multinationals as wellRead More

Fernando M. Reimers studies and teaches about innovative education policies and programs that help students develop competencies necessary for civic participation, work and life in the 21st century. He also works in the area of global citizenship education and inRead More

Rowe served as Dean of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard from 1992 to 2004, and was Chairman of the Urban Planning and Design Department from 1988 until 1992, and Director of the Urban Design Programs from 1985 untilRead More

Jeffrey R. Williams is a Rajawali Senior Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School, an independent management consultant, and an experienced corporate and non-profit director. He currently divides his time between ChinaRead More

Ali Malkawi is an international scholar and expert in building simulation, energy conservation, and sustainability in buildings. He teaches architectural technology and computation and conducts research in the areas of computational simulation, building performance evaluation, and design decision support. HeRead More

Odd Arne Westad is the S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at Harvard University, where he teaches at the Kennedy School of Government. He is an expert on contemporary international history and on the eastern Asian region. Before comingRead More

Xiaowei Zhuang works in the areas of single-molecule biology and bioimaging, developing imaging techniques to study biological systems quantitatively. The understanding of living organisms has greatly benefited from imaging tools. In particular, understanding the inner workings of a cell requiresRead More

A leading scientist in the areas of infectious diseases, vaccines, and global health and former consultant to the White House, Dr. Barry Bloom continues to pursue an active interest in bench science as the principal investigator of a laboratory researchingRead More

Together with William Kirby, Bol teaches ChinaX (SW12x), a Harvard course that has a global enrollment of over 45,000. His research is centered on the history of China’s cultural elites at the national and local levels from the 7th toRead More

Research interests: late imperial Chinese history; Manchu studies; Mongolian studies; history of relations between China and Inner Asia; the Silk Road; history of cartography; frontier studies; comparative empire; ethnicity and ethnic policy; contemporary historiography.

Mark C. Elliott is the Mark SchwartzRead More

Research and Teaching Interests: Global Mental Health; Social Medicine; Medical Humanities; Social Suffering; Caregiving; China; Asia broadly; North America.

Arthur Kleinman (born March 11, 1941), a physician and anthropologist, is now in his 39th year at Harvard. A graduate ofRead More

Ya-Wen Lei is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. She is also affiliated with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard. She grew up in Taipei, Taiwan. Trained in both law and sociology, sheRead More

Xiao-Li Meng, Dean of the Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), Whipple V. N. Jones Professor and former chair of Statistics at Harvard, is well known for his depth and breadth in research, his innovation and passionRead More

As a scholar of literary, film, and cultural studies, Jie Li’s research interests center on the mediation of memories in modern China. Her first book, Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life (Columbia, 2014), excavates a century of memories embedded inRead More

Elizabeth J. Perry is Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government and Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute. She is a comparativist with special expertise in the politics of China. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the recipientRead More

Research interests: the interplay between state and society in Asia and the respective roles they play in the provision of public goods and services at the local level; developments in China; international law.
Anthony Saich is the director of theRead More

Michael Szonyi is Director of the Fairbank Center at Harvard University and Professor of Chinese History in Harvard’s Departments of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and of History. His research uses a combination of traditional textual study and contemporary fieldworkRead More

Research interests: modern and contemporary Chinese literature, late Qing fiction and drama; comparative literary theory; colonial and modern Taiwanese fiction, and Asian American and diasporic literature; Chinese intellectuals and artists in the mid-20th century
David Der-wei Wang holds a jointRead More

Sarah manages the budgets and general administration for the Asia Center, South Asia Institute, Fairbank Center, Korea Institute, and Harvard China Fund.

Robyn manages sponsored awards and assists with financial processing for the Asia Center, Fairbank Center, Harvard China Fund, Korea Institute, and the South Asia Institute.

Karen Christopher has worked in the Asia Center’s financial office since 2000, assisting staff, affiliates, faculty, and students with financial and administrative issues. She also supports the a number of Asia-related research centers including the Harvard China Fund and theRead More

Lillian Wei is responsible for the Harvard China Fund’s operations, program deliveries, and administrative management.

Ms. Wei opened the Harvard Shanghai Office and, since then, has been managing academic programs, supporting faculty members on their educational missions, and developing student exchangeRead More

William C. Kirby is T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He is a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor.

William P. Alford is a scholar of Chinese law and legal history. His books include To Steal a Book is an Elegant Offense: Intellectual Property Law in Chinese Civilization (Stanford University Press 1995), Raising the Bar: The Emerging Legal ProfessionRead More

In 1987, Dr. Gerald Chan co-founded Morningside, a diversified investment group engaged in private equity and venture capital investments in North America, Asia and Europe. Morningside has been an active investor in China since 1992.

Yi Wang works with Harvard faculty across the university’s many schools and departments, as well as with academic partners and other supporters in China, to strengthen Harvard’s engagement with China.

A native of China and a 1995 graduate of Harvard CollegeRead More

In March 2014, David H. Roberts, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine was appointed by Dean Jeffrey Flier as the inaugural Harvard Medical School Dean for External Education. An HMS alumnus, Dr. Roberts completed his internal medicine training at Massachusetts GeneralRead More

Dr. Bing Wang, Associate Professor in Practice of Real Estate and the Built Environment, teaches design and real estate courses at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. She is Area Head for Master of Design Real Estate and theRead More

Dr. Winnie Yip is Professor of the Practice of Global Health Policy and Economics in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and also Director of the school wide China HealthRead More

Mengxue (Emmeline) Liu is the program coordinator at the Harvard China Fund since November 2018, where she is responsible for implementing programmatic activities for students and faculty.

Emmeline obtained her Master’s Degree in Education at Boston University. Prior to herRead More

William A. Graham served as Dean of Harvard Divinity School from 2002 to 2012, when he stepped down to return to research and teaching. He has been a member of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences since 1973 andRead More

Professor Narayanamurti’s current research is directed mainly at the physics of electron and hole transport in novel semiconductor electronic materials and devices. The primary methods used are scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and ballistic electron emission microscopy (BEEM). Unlike more traditionalRead More

Julia Cai currently oversees different programs and activities for the Harvard China Fund and Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.

She graduated from Harvard College in 2006 with an A.B. in English and American language and literature, and significant coursework in sociology.Read More