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HARVARD trained many of the scholars that the Ford grants enabled other universities to hire. The pre-eminent figure is tall, laconic Historian John King Fairbank, 64, a frequent consultant to the U.S. Government. Younger experts wryly refer to him as "King John." Starting as an expert on 19th century China, Fairbank has long argued for serious, sustained attention to the mainland. Historian Benjamin Schwartz's interests range widely, from Confucian thought to the rise of Mao; Ezra Vogel is a pioneer in the growing field of China sociology. Jerome Cohen was one of the first Westerners to become...
...University Symposia, open to the public: 1) "The Future of Sino-Soviet Relations," in Paine Hall. With John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History; Richard E. Pipes, professor of History; James C. Thomson, lecturer on History, and Adam B. Ulam, professor of Government. 2) "Politics 1972: The Road to Conventions," in Lowell Lecture Hall. With Osborn Elliott '46, editor of Newsweek; Francis W. Hatch Jr. '46, Massachusetts Representative; E. J. Kahn '37; and Lawrence E. Spivak '21, producer of Meet the Press. 3) "CostInflation in Higher Education: Effects and Prospects." in Harvard Hall 104. With William L. Bruce, vice...
Loose Talk. Outside New Delhi, where one Indian critic relegated it to "the dunghill of propaganda," Maxwell's assessment is widely accepted. To Harvard Sinologist John K. Fairbank, the episode is "an object lesson in international astigmatism." At the very least, it questions the assumption that Peking is fundamentally reckless, belligerent and expansionist-the axiom that was used to justify the "containment" policy pursued by the U.S. in Asia for 20 years. In fact, serious China watchers have long regarded Peking as extremely cautious in its foreign policy decisions...
...ties with Peking without abandoning its commitments to Taiwan. But the issue will probably not be settled until both Mao Tse-tung, now 77, and Chiang Kaishek, 83, pass into history, along with their personal hatreds. Only then, in all likelihood, will an accommodation be possible. Harvard Sinologist John Fairbank suggests that the two governments might one day agree simultaneously to recognize Peking's "sovereignty" over the island and Taipei's "autonomy"-a device the British employed to engineer continued Chinese sovereignty over separatist Mongolia and Tibet after the fall of the Manchu empire...
...Both Fairbank and Thomson predict...