Word: fairbanks
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JOHN KING FAIRBANK '29. Higginson Professor of History Emeritus, retired from a 40-year Harvard teaching career more than five years ago. But his chronicles of China remain central to the study of the rocky United States-East Asian relationship as ever. And now the 74-year-old undisputed dean of China hands has applied his brilliance to another intriguing and consuming subject his own life...
...Fairbank said yesterday that he had "no idea what will happen as a result of the overture" but added, "if the two got together to negotiate it wouldn...
Both MacFarquhar and John K. Fairbank professor of history emeritus, agreed with Goldman that the arms sales to Taiwan were a motivating factor in Brezhnev's statements...
...analysts agreed that there were many factors, including China's distrust of the Russians still prohibiting a Sino-Soviet reconciliation. "The Chinese distrust the Russians more than we do." Fairbank said...
...faculty gift lists this year. Nathan I. Huggins, chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department, asks for nothing else. Nicolaas Bloembergen, Gade University Professor and this year's Nobel laureate in physics, wants a little more: "I'd like peace and quiet," he says. And John K. Fairbank, Higginson Professor Emeritus of History, is choosiest of all. "Peace and good will is all right," he says, but "but I'd like to add a little more intelligence. A little study...