Word: fairbank
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...chair, endowed by a benefactor of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, will fill a critical gap in the department's overall study of Chinese political science, said Professor of Government Roderick MacFarquhar, a China expert and the head of the search committee...
Lawrence Sullivan, research associate with the John T. Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, said the chaos in China may reawaken the country's dormant xenophobia. "Just because we establish relations with China doesn't mean it disappears," he said, adding that in times of crisis China often tries to close off its society from contact with the outside world...
...distant sense of a common ground was first bridged on April 26, when 150,000 people flooded the square to show disapproval of an inflammatory People's Daily editorial that denounced the students. "That was a major breakthrough in Chinese modern history," says Roderick MacFarquahar, director of Harvard's Fairbank Center for East Asian Research. It marked the "first time since 1949 that a demonstration by society against the state was made successfully in the face of a powerful government...
...historic move this fall, Higginson Professor of History Emeritus John K. Fairbank gave up his Widener study when he retired. Never before has a professor relinquished a coveted library office for reasons other than death or resignation from the faculty...
Roderick MacFarquhar is Professor of Government and Director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research. He is the author of the trilogy, The Origins of the Cultural Revolution, of which two volumes have so far appeared, published by Columbia University Press...