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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...
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...
...members of the Government Department emphasized that Terrill would not have been a replacement for John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History, who will retire at the end of this academic year, because Fairbank is a Chinese historian...
Mohtz recalls that he first became disenchanted with Harvard when he took courses on the Far East from John Fairbank '29, Higginson: Professor of History. Fairbank attacked General Douglas MacArthur and Mohtz objected. "What I thought then was proved in the '50s, of course," Mohtz says, noting that Fairbank was cited as a Communist sympathizer...