organization founded in 1928 to further the spread of knowledge and scholarship on East and Southeast Asia. Under the auspices of the HYI, Elisséeff established the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies in 1936. The journal publishes monograph-length scholarly articles focused on Asian humanities. His wide range of knowledge came to be reflected in the diverse character of the journal during the twenty-one years he served as its editor (1936–57). Elisséeff resigned his position of director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute in 1956, then the following year accepted emeritus status from Harvard and returned to Paris to his professorship at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, then later retired. The prominent American Japanologist Edwin O. Reischauer, who was one of Elisséeff's students, wrote that "perhaps no one better deserves the title of Father of Far Eastern Studies in the United States." In 1973, Elisséeff became the first foreigner to receive the Japan Foundation Award. His wife, Vera, died in 1971, and Elisséeff himself died in Paris in 1975, aged 86. Personal life Elisséeff and his wife, Vera Petrovna (née Eikhe) Elisséeff, were married in Russia on 22 November 1914 and had two sons: Nikita Elisséeff (1 August 1915 –25 November 1997), who became a scholar of the Middle East, and Vadime Elisséeff (4 May 1918 –29 January 2002), a noted historian and expert on East Asian art. Honors Japan Foundation: Japan Foundation Award, 1973. Selected works In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Serge Elisséeff, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 100+ works in 100+ publications in 10 languages and 1,500+ library holdings. La peinture contemporaine au Japon (1923) Neuf nouvelles japonaises (1924) Le théatre Japonais (kabuki) (1932), with Alexandre Iacovleff Elementary Japanese for university students (1941) Elementary Japanese for college students (1944) Selected Japanese texts for university students (1944) Japan : frühe buddhistische Malereien (1959) References Citations Works cited Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ; Rogala, Joseph. (2001). A Collector's Guide to Books on Japan in English: A Select List of Over 2500 Titles. London:Routledge. West, Philip. (1976). Yenching University and Sino-Western Relations, 1916-1952. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Zurndorfer, Harriet Thelma. (1995). China Bibliography: A Research Guide to Reference Works About China Past and Present. Leiden: Brill Publishers.ISBN 978-90-04-10278- 1 [reprinted by University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1999. (paper) External links Japan: Ancient Buddhist Paintings (1959), with Takaaki Matsushita. French Japanologists French sinologists Russian