Word: fairbank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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United Nations forces should negotiate with the Chinese Communists as long as possible but must not allow them to get away with aggression, the University's Far Eastern experts, John K. Fairbank '29, professor of History, and Edwin O. Reischauer, professor of Far Eastern Languages, said last night...
...Such American liberals as Owen Lattimore and Harvard's Professor John Fairbank have impugned the motives of the U.S. Open Door policy, by which Secretary of State John Hay in 1899 protected China from a growing web of foreign "concessions"; Hay insisted that China have a right to trade with all nations. In spite of this policy, U.S. investment in China was never large. It reached $122 million in 1937, about a quarter of the U.S. investment in Mexico, and much of the U.S. China investment was in hospitals and schools. Ironically, many U.S. traders in China falsely denounced...
...John K. Fairbank '29, professor of History, will lecture on "The Background of the Korean Crisis" at the weekly meeting of the Harvard Dames in Phillips Brooks House at 2:45 p.m. today...
...University's leading authorities on Far Eastern affairs, Fairbank recently said that Communist China's intervention in Korea is largely based on a fear that this country has aggressive designs towards China...
...Fairbank thought that the Chinese invasion of Tibet was also a calculated act of the Chinese central government. He admitted that he was puzzled by the Tibetan campaign because it is clearly jeopardizing their relations with India...