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Meet Harvard's first Chinese teacher: Ko K'un-hua

Meet Ko K'un-hua (Ge Kunhua), a Chinese scholar who became Harvard University’s first Chinese instructor during the late 19th century and whose documents became the core of the Harvard-Yenching Library. The idea of introducing a native Chinese scholar to teach Mandarin at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was formed either in 1877 or 1878 after a group of Harvard alumni from Boston and Salem who conducted trades in China decided their alma mater should also offer Chinese lessons to students, emulating Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, at the time, according to Harvard Magazine in 2008.

Meet Harvard's first Chinese teacher: Ko K'un-hua

Scholar Ko K'un-hua only taught four or five students at Harvard University starting in 1879 and before his death in 1882

Meet Harvard's first Chinese teacher: Ko K'un-hua