Harvard-Yenching Institute
| Harvard–Yenching Institute | |||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 哈佛燕京學社 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 哈佛燕京学社 | ||||||||||
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| Japanese name | |||||||||||
| Kanji | ハーバード燕京研究所 | ||||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Hāfó Yànjīng xuéshè |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Hāa-fāt yin-gīng hohk-séh |
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| Romanization | Hābādo-Yenchin kenkyūsho |
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 of Harvard.
The Harvard–Yenching Institute (HYI) was founded in 1928 with funding provided solely from the estate of Charles Martin Hall, the inventor of a process for refining aluminum and the founder of the Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA). Although the Institute has close ties with Harvard University, it is a legally and fiscally independent public charitable trust. Mr. Hall’s charge to the trustees of his estate was to promote higher education in Asia and to that end the trustees of his estate partnered with Harvard University in order to fulfill the Harvard–Yenching Institute’s mission as stated in its Articles of Incorporation:
In the 1930s, the Institute supported the development of what became the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard and founded the Harvard-Yenching Library as well as the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. During the 1930s and 40s, the Institute provided direct support to Yenching University in Peiping (Peking), because of its focus on the humanities, along with five other colleges in China, University of Nanking (Nanking), Fukien Christian University (Foochow), Lingnan University (Guangzhou), Cheeloo University (Tsinan) and West China Union University (Chengtu), and Allahabad Agricultural Institute in India.
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