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...Students do not always want to live with theactions of their predecessors," Professor ofGovernment Roderick Macfarquhar said at themeeting. "Future generations participating in thisbody may have fresh ideas."Former Dean of the College JOHN B. FOX '59negotiates with students staging a sit-in at 17Quincy Street two years...
...Roderick MacFarquhar is Professor of Government and Director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research. He is the author of the trilogy, The Origins of the Cultural Revolution, of which two volumes have so far appeared, published by Columbia University Press...
...While MacFarquhar says he started the seminar in large part to offer Sinologists a new perspective, he also hoped the seminar would generate additional interest in South Asia. "One of the reasons for starting the seminar was to see whether or not there is substantial interest in Indian studies, and whether Harvard should do something about its failure to provide courses in the subject...
Government Professor James G. Manor from the University of Leicester in England is another India specialist visiting partly for the comparative Fairbank seminar. While Manor and Washbrook were appointed through their respective departments, their visits are being financed by grants through the Fairbank Center, MacFarquhar says...
...MacFarquhar says that he is especially surprised by Harvard's lack of India coverage for two reasons. "First of all, India is a genuine experiment in democracy as we understand it. It's one of the few countries in the developing world in which democracy has actually worked." says the Government professor. "Second, India is a much more open country, and is much easier to study than many other societies in the developing world...