#  A Comparative Approach to the Formation of East Asian Family Names and Genealogies: Looking at Korean and Japanese Foreign Family Names 

 



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 **May 24, 2011** 

 12:15PM - 02:00PM EDT 

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 **S153, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138**  



 

 



 

 *China Lunchtime Seminar: Visiting Scholar Presentation*

 People Involved:  
**Guanglin Jin**, Niigata Sangyo University, Japan

 Dr. Guanglin Jin is a professor of humanities at Niigata Sangyo University in Japan. He received his PhD in interdisciplinary cultural studies from the University of Tokyo in 1997. He has published two books (co-author) and many articles on East Asian history, culture, and language. As a visiting scholar at the Fairbank Center, he is conducting a comparative study on the formation of East Asian family names and genealogies. His own background as a Korean-Chinese educated in Japan informs this research. Prior to coming to Harvard, he was a visiting scholar at the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.



 

 



 

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