在中美文化交流史上,戈鲲化是到美国任教的第一位中国人。1879年,他从宁波应聘赴美任哈佛大学的中文教席,1882年因病卒于剑桥。在哈佛燕京图书馆大门对面的墙壁上,便悬挂着他的一幅大照片,照片上是一个顶戴花翎、身穿清朝官服的中年人,清癯的脸上长着一双睿智的眼睛。燕京图书馆就是从他带到美国的一小批图书的基础上发展起来的。对于这位在100多年前即赴美 In the history of Sino-American cultural exchanges, Ge Kunhua was the first Chinese to teach in the United States. In 1879, he applied to the United States as a Chinese teacher in Harvard from Ningbo and died in Cambridge in 1882. On the wall opposite to the main entrance of the Yanjing Library in Harvard, a large photograph of him was hung, a middle-aged man wearing a flower-ling wearing a Qing dynasty official uniform with a pair of wise eyes on his face . Yanjing Library is based on a small batch of books he brought to the United States. For this one who came to the United States more than 100 years ago