Word: fairbanks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recurring themes in John K. Fairbank's work is the American perception of China. Since 1784, when the first American merchant ship sent to Canton returned with spices, silk, and a 25-per-cent profit, that perception has resulted in Americans' continual fascination with the vast, rich, mysterious nation. That same perception also launched many later ships laden not with goods to trade but with missionaries determined to remake the Chinese in their own image. We have never been able to see China through Chinese eyes, Fairbank teaches, but only through our own. Fairbank titled one of his many books...
...Fairbank said many Americans do not understand Communism because the United States bases its identity "on a large and exceptional heritage in which liberty under the law is it main expression...
...John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History, who will retire this year after 41 years at Harvard, told the group that East Asian Studies here originated in 1922 when Harvard "decided that the world was round and there should be a course on the Far East...
...Fairbank said the subsequent foundation of the Yenching Library in 1928 provided "the basis of Harvard's development" in the field. The development process culminated in the establishment of an East Asian Studies concentration in 1973, he said...
...Fairbank colored his account with anecdotes, saying, "I offer these sidelights which are irrelevant but interesting...