Word: fairbanks
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Harvard Professor John K. Fairbank, an expert on China Studies with whom Reischauer taught and wrote, commented on his colleague's abilities in a statement, "He was a person of very broad range: highly trained as a scholar who could handle Japanese, Chinese and European languages, yet he was a person with a common touch. He didn't carry scholarship around with him on his shoulder. He was honest and sincere...
...never appreciate in this country the particular eminence that Ed had in Japan. He was the only one who really spoke and read and wrote Japanese. He was a great symbol of friendship and understanding," Fairbank said...
Scholars at the John K. Fairbank Center for East Asian Research loosely translated excepts of the article, purportedly written by a Harvard student named Lou Sheng. No Harvard student by that name exists...
Professor of Government Roderick MacFarquhar, who directs the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, describes Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping as a first-generation revolutionary who, like Cuba's Fidel Castro, will never voluntarily surrender power...
...Hopefully Deng Xiaopeng will not die first and some of the hardliners will," says Merle Goldman, a professor of modern Chinese history at Boston University and a research associate at the Fairbank Center...