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Dean Bundy's office announced yesterday that John K. Fairbank '29, associate director of the Center for East Asian Studies, will become Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History on July 1. Fairbank, a specialist on China, will be one of four panelists discussing the background of Sino-American relationships Tuesday at M.I.T.'s Kresge Auditorium...
...know," he said, as he leaned back in the soft chair, and glanced at the piles of melting snow outside the window, "I've always agreed with something that I think Professor Fairbank said in one of his books, and that was, 'You can't have someone else's disillusions for him.' A democratic government has to be based on that belief...
...Administration, Lattimore asserted, is not even considering the possibility, for instance, that the people of Taiwan will choose to return to China rather than remain independent. John K. Fairbank '29, professor of History, commenting on the point raised by Lattimore, said the United States "would be smart to come out openly with a decision to accept the expression any time in the future of the people of Taiwan to join the mainland...
...Fairbank criticized the Administration for failing to take a stand on the issue of self-determination for the Formosans, and predicted that "the pull of the mainland will eventually be a very powerful one." If China continues to expand industrially and increase its national power, he said, "it will become too hot for us to hang on to Taiwan in the future...
...addition to Fairbank, other panel members include Rupert Emerson '22, professor of Government, and John C. Pelzell, associate professor of Anthropology and Assistant Curator of Far Eastern Ethnology...