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...University yesterday announced that the John K. Fairbank Center for East Asian Studies has received a $1 million gift for China research...

Author: By George A. Whiteside, | Title: Harvard Gets $1 Million Gift To Promote China Research | 2/9/1984 | See Source »

...John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History Emeritus and a pioneer in the field of China studies at Harvard, said the gift would help promote "a new wave of interest" in East Asian studies at Harvard...

Author: By George A. Whiteside, | Title: Harvard Gets $1 Million Gift To Promote China Research | 2/9/1984 | See Source »

...Fairbank added that the donation would be used "to do the most important things" for China studies, especially funding post-doctoral research. Patrick G. Maddox, associate director at the Center, emphasized the crucial nature of post-doctoral research on China and called the donation a chance for rising scholars in the field "to come back to a major Center and get a shot of intellectual adrenalin...

Author: By George A. Whiteside, | Title: Harvard Gets $1 Million Gift To Promote China Research | 2/9/1984 | See Source »

...Fairbank explained that government cutbacks and a lack of foundation support in recent years for research in the study of China had reduced the opportunity for young scholars to publish and do research in the field...

Author: By George A. Whiteside, | Title: Harvard Gets $1 Million Gift To Promote China Research | 2/9/1984 | See Source »

...John K. Fairbank, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, Emeritus, said of Kennedy, "he had a style of idealism and practicality that would help our relations with other countries--he was seen potentially as a great world leader. The assassination of Kennedy was a real turning point where the U.S.A. started going downhill, where the world started going downhill...

Author: By Holly A. Idelson, | Title: A 20th Century Fault Line | 11/22/1983 | See Source »

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