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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Winthrop St.: John K. Fairbank, Higginson Professor of History. 1967 assessment--$8,000. Tax paid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Who's Who Of Faculty Renters | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

ASWARM of 161 potential China pundits arrived at Kirkland House on July 4 to begin ten days of apprenticeship with Harvard's most celebrated Sinologist, John K. Fairbank, and his wife, Wilma, at the Alumni College...

Author: By Max Rudmann, | Title: From Nostalgia to Diploma: The Alumni College | 7/24/1973 | See Source »

...dubious that many took to heart Professor Fairbank's caution: "They are no model unless we go backward in material terms... Their inspiration for us is very superficial." Nor his earlier one referring to the changing attitudes toward China since the 50s: "They're the same people... the same Mao... It's an anti-individualistic society but we admire it... I suggest we face a contradiction. We can admire a people living on a not admirable basis, but achieving something, and not admire ourselves... The recognition of this reality is the beginning of wisdom." Watergate must have dulled many critical...

Author: By Max Rudmann, | Title: From Nostalgia to Diploma: The Alumni College | 7/24/1973 | See Source »

...bilingual brochure, "Harvard and Japan," John K. Fairbank, Higginson Professor of History and director of EAS, and Reischauer explain the United States and Japan face the danger that their economic interdependence and need for close cooperation in many fields will outrun their mutual understanding...

Author: By Max Rudmann, | Title: Asian Center Funds Sought By Reischauer | 7/17/1973 | See Source »

...three specialists said they had no information as to whether any diplomatic contacts were being made. "They don't always talk about these things while they are going on, but I have no idea whether any negotiations are taking place," Fairbank said...

Author: By Daniel Swanson, | Title: Harvard East Asian Experts Are Wary of Cambodian Peace | 7/6/1973 | See Source »

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