Ko Kunhua

This is the link to an image of Ko Kunhua, the first Chinese language instructor at Harvard University. A scholar and official in China, he started teaching Chinese language courses in 1879, when China was still under the ruling of the Qing Dynasty, the last feudalistic regime in Chinese history. He died of pneumonia on Feb. 15, 1882, in Boston. It was not until almost 40 years later that his successor, Professor Yuen Ren Chao, started offering Chinese language courses again at Harvard University.