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...John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History, left Mascow for Tokyo Wednesday after two weeks of discussions with some of Russia's experts on China...
...Fairbank, on leave for the Full term, said last week that he visited Moscow to study the relationship that is developing between the United States, the Soviet Union, and China...
...rather difficult to drop a field," Fairbank said. "You come along with a new field and you have to raise money for it. A field once established usually doesn't disappear." A field did disappear when Fairbank was promoted to a place in Chinese history over 25 years ago. The history of the Spanish Empire has not been taught at Harvard since...
...Fairbank is the exception to the rule. If Woodside receives tenure at Harvard, he will have Fairbank to thank for it. In 1960, Fairbank came to Woodside with an idea...
...suddenly realized in 1960 that Vietnam is a subject that isn't studied," Fairbank recalled. "That was a real giveaway. What was I doing around here? We were so occupied with China that we never thought about Vietnam. It was French, and no one ever went there...