Peter K. Bol is a famous American research scholar on Chinese ideological history, the Vice Provost of Harvard University and the Director of the Center for Geographic Analysis. He is devoted to the ideological history of Tang and Song Dynasty. He led Harvard’s university-wide effort to establish support for geospatial analysis in teaching and research. In 2005, he was named the first director of the Center for Geographic Analysis. He is also responsible for HarvardX, the Harvard Initiative in Learning and Teaching, and directs the China Historical Geographic Information Systems project and the China Biographical Database project.