Word: fairbanks
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...John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History, disagreed with Terrill, and said he expects no changes in Chinese foreign policy with regard to the United States and Russia...
...Fairbank disagreed on this point, saying that China has a need to shore up its weak relationship with the U.S., rather than drift any closer to the Soviets...
When Chairman Mao Tse-tung died last month, the two Harvard professors most sought after for comment by journalists and scholars were John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History, and Ross G. Terrill, associate professor of Government...
...wagers on personality types and power quotients do not necessarily explain Chinese politics or society, or the way a system works in any country, for that matter. That much is agreed upon by Harvard's most prominent and widely-quoted Sinologists--John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History, Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, Williams Professor of History, Roy M. Hofheinz Jr. '67, professor of Government, and Ross Terrill, assistant professor of Government. In a typical response to a query about the post-Mao direction of Chinese leadership, Fairbank says, "It's just nonsense to try to guess at history from...
...Fairbank and Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, both said this week they were sorry to hear about the decision. "But," Fairbank said, "Everytime you add a professor you have to have $1 million--the problem is the resources you have...