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...Roderick MacFarquhar, government department chair, says he would be worried the department was becoming too bland if there was not a diversity of opinion between professors. Similar feelings pervade the history department. “We’ve been fortunate, and my sense is that this is true of history departments across the U.S., that although there are very wide differences of approach and methodology and even definition of what history is and can be that these arguments have been debated in friendly and collegial fashion,” says Blackburn. “I think...
...There was a certain amount of ill will between the Kennedy School and government because Bok had put a lot of money into the Kennedy School,” says Roderick L. MacFarquhar, chair of the government department...
...masts was deemed a capital offense. Oceangoing vessels were destroyed. Eventually, even records of Zheng He's journey were torched. China's heroic age was over; its open door had slammed shut. "The expeditions wasted tens of myriads of money and grain," a 15th century Minister of War complained. Roderick MacFarquhar, a sinologist at Harvard University, characterizes the conservative triumph this way: "Yellow River over blue water...
...It’s more likely that if we’ve got a sensible proposition to put before the dean that we will get a sympathetic ear,” says Roderick MacFarquhar, Williams professor of history and political science and chair of the government department...
...graduate student had come here to study the German philosophers of the nineteenth century," says Williams Professor of History and Political Science Roderick L. MacFarquhar, the government department chair, "they certainly would have worked with Seyla...