Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

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Ha Fo Da Xue Fei Zheng Qing Zhong Guo Yan Jiu Zhong Xin ; pinyin: Hafo daxue Fei Zhengqing zhongguo yanjiu zhongxin; lit. 'Harvard University Fairbank China Research Center') Fairbank Center logo Harvard.jpg
The chop of the Fairbank Center is its institutional logo. (Chinese :哈佛大學費正清中國研究中心; pinyin :Hāfó dàxué Fèi Zhèngqīng zhōngguó yánjiū zhōngxīn; lit. 'Harvard University Fairbank China Research Center')

The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University is a post-graduate research center promoting the study of modern and contemporary China from a social science perspective. The center hosts and organizes academic activities, provides research funds for faculty and students, and helps policy-makers and news media to understand modern China. [1] The center sponsors the Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures.

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History

The center was established in the 1955 as the Center for East Asian Research. and on the retirement of its founding director, John K. Fairbank. The center was renamed the John K. Fairbank Center for East Asian Research. From its beginnings in 1955, its focus was on modern and contemporary China, diverging from classic sinology, which emphasized the study of texts from a humanistic perspective. [1]

To celebrate its 60th anniversary, the center organized a symposium discussing the changes in the landscape of Chinese studies and the changing role of the center. [2]

Directors

List of directors of the Fairbank Center: [1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 "About the Fairbank Center". Fairbank Center. Archived from the original on February 24, 2016. Retrieved February 17, 2016.
  2. 60th Anniversary Symposium
  3. Suleski, pp. 11-44.
  4. Suleski, pp. 45-58.
  5. Suleski, p. 54.
  6. Suleski, p. 59.
  7. Suleski, p. 75.
  8. Suleski, p. 76.
  9. Suleski, p. 77.
  10. Suleski, p. 99.

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