The most comprehensive collection of East Asian resources outside of China, a host of East Asian specific centers, a wide-ranging curriculum that covers more disciplines than other universities, and one of the largest and most esteemed East Asian studies faculties are just some of the reasons for choosing this program. You will gain access to the resources at the Harvard-Yenching Library, the Fairbanks Center for Chinese Studies, the Korea Institute, the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, and the Asia Center. Your multidisciplinary curriculum will include the study of East Asian history, literature, religion, philosophy, and language.
Examples of theses that students have submitted include "Du Fu: Poet Historian, Poet Sage," "Southern Capital: Staging Commerce in Seventeenth-Century Suzhou," and "The Qing Invention of Nature: Environment and Identity in Northeast China and Mongolia 1750–1850."
Graduates have launched academic careers at institutions in the United States (including Princeton University, Yale University, Columbia University, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Cornell University, the University of Chicago, Harvard University), Canada, Europe, Australia, and East Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong). Others have secured positions as museum curators, in IT, and in non-profit cultural organizations.
Additional information on the graduate program is available from the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and requirements for the degree are detailed in GSAS Policies.