Word: fairbanks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Historians will conclude that our new contact with Peking is less surprising than the fact that it has been so long delayed," John K. Fairbank '29, Higgins Professor of History and director of the East Asian Research Center, said in the New York Times yesterday...
...Fairbank, who studied in China during the 1930's, said in an interview that the Chinese and American moves are diplomatically significant because they are symbolic of the countries' differing national styles...
...American five-point proposal for bringing the Chinese into world trade is very symbolic because we consider economics to be the essence of the real world," Fairbank said...
...Chinese may be poor and weak, but in their view it's a privilege to come to Peking- a privilege extended only to foreigners they feel are qualified to appreciate it," Fairbank said. The Americans are now qualified to visit, he added, because "we're starting to treat the Chinese at least as well as we treat the Russians- which isn't much...
...Both Fairbank and Thomson predict...