Word: fairbanks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Asia among the 400 scholars at the meeting. The Caucus represented one third of the 1200 gathered in Philadelphia for the twentieth annual convention of the Association of Asian Studies. The Caucus, however, was held completely outside the auspices of the AAS. It was chaired by John K. Fairbank, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and unofficial dean of Asian Studies in this country...
...outset of the meeting, Fairbank skillfully frustrated an effort by some participants to shut down the Caucus. The dissident elements made repeated charges that the Caucus was "illegitimate" and "conspiratorial." Fairbank calmly refuted the charges, and when the argument erupted into violent exchanges, he sobered the audience by stating simply: "Gentlemen, shut...
...statement was signed by Jerome A. Cohen, professor of Law, John K. Fairbank, Director of the East Asian Research Center, Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, professor of History and Government, and James C. Thomson Jr., assistant professor of History. It appears in the New York Times today...
...marshal aircraft carriers, a fleet of jets and half a million men for the war in Viet Nam, but when it comes to scholarship in Vietnamese language and culture, the nation is woefully unprepared. As Harvard Sinologist John K. Fairbank put it at a conference of Orientalists...
...failure, as Fairbank sees it, is that U.S. scholars simply let French academicians worry about Viet Nam since France was involved there for so long. To staff its Southeast Asia Program, Cornell, in fact, has had to import French, British and Japanese experts. Another problem is the difficulty of gaining such expertise. A solid scholar on Viet Nam must master the Ciinese language, then Vietnamese, and also be able to handle the anthropology, economics, politics and history of that confusing country. That particular blend of ability and interest has been scarce, and it takes about ten years to train such...