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Harvard University has all along placed importance on China studies. When I come here, I remember when I was minister of electronic industrial ministry. Fourteen years ago, I was here [for the] first time. The late Professor [John King] Fairbank ['29] was a well-known scholar from Harvard. He devoted all his life to the study of Chinese history and culture. In order to promote the study of China's past and present, I will present Harvard with a set of newly published Twenty-Four Histories With Mao Zedong's Comments. Twenty-Four Histories are important classic works on China...
...showing a human side," said Shufen Li, a visiting scholar from China...
Janofsky's analysis is not intuitive. Mass meetings seem by definition to be anti-individualistic. We expect the individual to feel lost at a million person gathering, not affirmed. As one observer of the Promise Keepers, feminist scholar Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen, put it in The Washington Post: "All of this amounts to a concern about the excesses of individualism in our country...It's trying to bring men into a more communitarian mind-set, where they are connected to churches and families...
...China may be the two dominant powers, it seems imperative that we try to influence the Chinese, rather than alienate them; that, ever more confident in democracy and capitalism, we work with Jiang rather than arouse his ire and risk a new Cold War. As Harvard visiting scholar Xiaohuang Yin argues in yesterday's Globe, without arriving at a common ground in terms of trade policy and international treaties, the security and prosperity of either nation cannot be ensured...
Compared with predecessors Mao and Deng, he enjoyed an easy revolution, and he had a far more worldly upbringing. "I wouldn't describe him as a closet Western-culture buff," says Kenneth Lieberthal, a China scholar at the University of Michigan, "but he has a more appreciative attitude than many Chinese." He once told an American visitor that he regretted not earning a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but one of his sons did get his from Philadelphia's Drexel University and worked for Hewlett-Packard in California before returning to China...