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Kirby, who will take over as director of Harvard’s Fairbank Center for East Asian Studies, said he would step back next year from the review. “As a Faculty member, of course I will stay interested,” he said, but “I think I’ve done my committee work...
...president wrote that Kirby, a scholar of Chinese history and culture, will become director of Harvard’s Fairbank Center for East Asian Research this summer. The search for Kirby’s replacement as dean will begin immediately, Summers wrote. (See story here...
Williams Professor of History and Political Science Roderick MacFarquhar, the interim director of the Fairbank Center who Kirby will replace, said that he thought Kirby would be “warmly received” by others at the center...
...thought he was going to be director of the Fairbank Center years and years ago,” said MacFarquhar. “Instead, he has taken a long detour...
Kirby wrote in an e-mail last night that he has several priorities as director of the Fairbank Center, including “to work with faculty to keep (or where need be, make) Harvard pre-eminent in the study of China and as the key locus in this country for scholarly inquiry on China...