PEOPLE WHO MADE

THE HARVARD
YENCHING LIBRARY

Ko
Kun-hua

Ko was the rst Chinese

professor in the United States
who initiated the collection of
Chinese books at Harvard.

Unokichi
Hattori

With Masaharu Anesaki, a

prominent Buddhist scholar,
Hattokichi came to Harvard as a
visiting professor in 1914 and
oered courses on Buddhism and
oriental culture. Their donation
became the earliest collection of
Japanese books of the university.

Yuen Ren
Chao

(1892-1982)

Chao was a prominent linguist

and the professor of Chinese at
Harvard University (1921-24)
who helped the library acquire
Chinese and Japanese books

Kuang-Ti
Mei

Mei taught Chinese at Harvard

University and had contributed
greatly to the early
development of the library.

Kai ming
Chiu

Born in Zhejiang, China, Chiu assumed

the directorship of the Chinese-
Japanese Collection of the Harvard
College Library in 1927, shortly after he
received his master degree in
agricultural economics from Harvard
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,
and thus began his forty-year
stewardship of what was to become
the Harvard-Yenching library.

Charles
Martin Hall
Charles Martin Hall, an
American chemist known for
his invention of an inexpensive
method for producing
aluminium, generously donated
14 millions to support the
Harvard-Yenching Institute and
its Library.

A. von StaelHolstein
A Russian sinologists teaching
at Harvard and Beijing
University, Stael-Holstein
helped the library acquire a
number of Tibetan materials in
its early years.

Sungha Kim
In 1958, Kim became the rst
Korean librarian and led the
librarys rapid expansion of its
Korean collection.

Francis
Woodman
Cleaves
Francis W. Cleaves taught Inner
Asian history at Harvard
University, and helped the
library acquire most of its
Mongolian and Manchu books.

Eugene W.
Wu

Under his 32-years leadership,

starting from 1965 Wu became
the librarian of the library in
1965, the librarys holdings rose
from 407,424 volumes to nearly
900,000 volumes and also
expanded its scope from the
humanities to the social sciences.