Word: macfarquhar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When he's studying Chinese politics, which is organized in factions, he can use his experience with factions in British politics," says John K. Fairbank, Higginson Professor of History, Emeritus, who taught MacFarquhar in the early 1950s...
...spring of 1982, MacFarquhar had already spent a semester as a visiting lecturer at Harvard, testing the waters in case of political defeat...
...answer was apparently yes. Meanwhile, Harvard's Government Department started considering' MacFarquhar for tenure, hoping to replace Harvard's aging giants in the field...
...MacFarquhar ran for Parliament on the Social Democrat slate in 1983 from the Derbyshire South district, the Harvard Government Department was in the unusual position of rooting against him. "I told him I hoped he would lose, but it was just a joke," says Fairbank...
This past summer, MacFarquhar visited China to research, pouring over library books and interviewing the principals--something he couldn't do for 17 years preceding...