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Ezra F. Vogel, Ford professor of the social sciences and director of the Fair-bank Center for East Asian Studies, said an announcement is likely by Thursday. "We hope it works out but we cannot confirm" the visit, he said last night...
...first time in many years, Fair-bank Professor of Chinese Society James L. Watson's Foreign Cultures 62: "Chinese Family, Marriage and Kinship"-known belovedly among students as "Mating and Dating"-is not listed in the course catalog...
...with the "pluralistic effort of approaching a wide variety of resources. We found a neglected area of scholarship and developed a special program to fulfill this need." The personal contacts in the orient maintained by Edwin O Reischauer. University Professor and former Ambassador to Japan, and by John K. Fair-bank '29, Higginson Professor of History, were valuable in locating Japanese resources and indicate, Peterson claims, the advantages of having a specialized fundraising project. Finally, says Peterson, "We appeal to the self interest of the government and businesses, and they saw it was in their self interest to further productive...
...affairs. John K. Fairbank '29, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and Director of the Center, said Saturday that up to this point the Center has had very limited research programs on Japan and Korea. "The grant will allow us to take a great step forward in these areas," Fair-bank said...
Americans first became interested in China during the 1830's, at which time scores of Congregational ministers began to propagate the Gospel there. "For two generations, the Americans tried to save souls," John King Fair-bank '29, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History points out wryly, "then they turned to education." Several Christian colleges were established and, in 1879, the first American chair in Chinese instruction was established at Harvard...