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...Fairbank's proposal grows out of a 38-page report submitted to Dean Dunlop on March 1 by a Task Force on East Asian Studies. Fairbank said yesterday that the report--which will be released later this month--notes Harvard's preeminence in the Western world in East Asian Studies, but adds that Harvard's capacity to give undergraduates a "meaningful view of East Asia is much larger than we are currently offering...
...motion, to be introduced by John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History, provides for an A.B. Degree in East Asian Studies beginning in the academic year 1972-73. It is the first of several proposals dealing with undergraduate education which will come before the Faculty this Spring...
White the exact degree requirements for the concentration will be worked out by a Standing Committee appointed by Dean Dunlop. Fairbank's proposal stipulates a minimum language requirement of two years in a Far Eastern language...
While the size of graduate enrollment has also rises--there are currently about 250 graduate students as opposed to 60 undergraduate concentrators in East Asia in the History and Far Eastern Language Departments--Fairbank said yesterday that the number will decrease in line with general rollbacks in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
Commenting on the Malraux formula that China is seeking aid from the U.S., Fairbank said, "I don't know where he got the idea." Further, Fairbank said he felt it would be "patronizing" on the part of the U.S to approach China with eagerness to give...