The Harvard-Yenching Institute has announced the results of the 2025-2026 visiting program selection. Associate Professor Li Lei, a young teacher of the School of Foreign Studies (SFS), has been selected for the Harvard-Yenching Institute-Boston College Ricci Institute of Chinese and Western Culture and History 2025-2026 Joint Visiting Program. Associate Professor Li Lei, whose research interests encompass East-West cultural exchange and overseas sinology, was awarded the Harvard-Yenching Visiting Scholars program for her research on “Missionaries and Their Ethnological Writings on South China (1860-1950).” This marks the second consecutive year that young faculty members from SFS have been chosen as visiting scholars at the Harvard-Yenching Institute. In 2024, Associate Professor Zhang Qiang, another young teacher of SFS, was successfully elected as a visiting scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute for 2024-2025. Associate Professor Zhang Qiang focuses primarily on comparative literature research, and during his time at Harvard University, he has been conducting research on “The Extraterritorial Influence of the Poets of the National Southwestern Associated University” and “William Empson’s Transmedia Poetics.”
The Harvard-Yenching Institute is a world-renowned institution for the study of Asian culture. Its visiting program supports outstanding young scholars in the humanities and social sciences from leading universities in East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia, allowing them to conduct research and study at Harvard University. This program significantly influences academic exchanges between the East and the West.
The School of Foreign Studies at Nankai University has always placed great importance on the training of young teachers, actively providing a broad platform and strong support for their interdisciplinary research and teaching of foreign language + X, while addressing the needs of national cultural construction and social development in the new era.
