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The harvard yenching 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 it traditionally had close ties to harvard university and the now defunct yenching university and its offices are located on the harvard campus in cambridge massachusetts but it is not part . Through an empirical multi archival study of a transnational foundation the harvard yenching institute hyi from the 1920s to the early 1950s this book presents the story of transplanting western american humanities scholarship into asia china and addresses central questions in us china relations. Fan shuhua the harvard yenching institute and cultural engineering remaking the humanities in china 1924 1951 lexington books 2014 marakhonova svetlana serge elisseeffs order of the sacred treasure how the son of a russian merchant became the father of american japanology book published in russian saint petersburg sinel 2016. Get this from a library the harvard yenching institute and cultural engineering remaking the humanities in china 1924 1951 shuhua fan using the world renowned harvard yenching institute as a case study this book is the first comprehensive examination of the transfer of western american humanities knowledge to promote modern