Word: fairbanks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University yesterday announced that the John K. Fairbank Center for East Asian Studies has received a $1 million gift for China research...
...John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History Emeritus and a pioneer in the field of China studies at Harvard, said the gift would help promote "a new wave of interest" in East Asian studies at Harvard...
...Fairbank added that the donation would be used "to do the most important things" for China studies, especially funding post-doctoral research. Patrick G. Maddox, associate director at the Center, emphasized the crucial nature of post-doctoral research on China and called the donation a chance for rising scholars in the field "to come back to a major Center and get a shot of intellectual adrenalin...
...Fairbank explained that government cutbacks and a lack of foundation support in recent years for research in the study of China had reduced the opportunity for young scholars to publish and do research in the field...
...John K. Fairbank, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, Emeritus, said of Kennedy, "he had a style of idealism and practicality that would help our relations with other countries--he was seen potentially as a great world leader. The assassination of Kennedy was a real turning point where the U.S.A. started going downhill, where the world started going downhill...