Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Increasing problems in East Asia and "the need for training people to deal with them" have led to the formation of a Center for East Asian Studies, John M. Fairbanks '29, professor of History, stated yesterday...
...year training program for M.A. candidates in Regional Studies--East Asia (formerly China...
Ford Foundation grants are financing the year of study for the group. Dean Mason of the Graduate School of Public Administration selected the fellowship recipients during a trip to Asia earlier this year...
...same meeting, Richard N. Frye, associate professor of Middle Eastern Studies, spoke of the growing confidence the Russians have in the material production of their state, which he found on his trip to Russian Central Asia. He contrasted this with their growing uncertainty in discussing political and religious matters. "I met no atheists," he said, "only agnostics...
Vietnamese intellectuals are aware that Confucianism's extreme reverence for the past helped delay the modernization of Asia until it was disastrously late, but Viet Nam's Confucian revivalists are not worried. The government has issued a Confucian handbook, and officials hold biweekly staff meetings at which government employees are drilled in the master's tenets. The Van-mieu "temple of literature"-with its array of tablets containing the life stories of Confucius and other sages-will be rebuilt in Saigon (the original is in now-Communist Hanoi). A' highbrow Confucian monthly will continue to expound...