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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...
...Fairbank Center for East Asian Research Director Ezra F.Vogel: President Jiang Zemin has also said that, although this has been unannounced, he is willing to take a question from the audience. This is completely unrehearsed, and I hope that some of you will think of a question. Can I call upon somebody in the audience here who would like to raise a question? President Jiang Zemin has said that he would like to hear, first of all, from an American, and so--[audience unrest is audible]. This is for an American audience--Yes, this woman right here. This woman...
Jiang was flanked by Rudenstine; Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles; University Marshal Richard M. Hunt; Director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Studies Ezra F. Vogel; Li Daoyou, the Chinese ambassador to the United States; Qian Qichen, China's vice premier and foreign minister, and James Sasser, the U.S. ambassador to China. Jiang entered Sanders on schedule and promptly received a 20-second standing ovation...
Immediately following Jiang's speech, Vogel announced that Jiang would answer questions selected by a committee of fellows of the Fairbank Center, which received more than 100 questions...
...people were really trying to be polite, but there a lot of people with issues with what Jiang is doing in China," said a fellow with the Fairbank Center. "Most people inside, though, are interested in the democratic process of dialogue--engagement but not endorsement...