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.
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 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]
Suleski, Ronald Stanley. (2005). The Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University: a Fifty Year History, 1955-2005. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN9780976798002; OCLC 64140358
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Official website
Facebook, Fairbank Center
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies ISSUU Fairbank Center Annual Reports 2016–17 to 2021.
Professor Xu Zhangrun’s Letter to the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University China Heritage, Wairopa Academy for New Sinology (n.d.)
fairbank, center, chinese, studies, harvard, university, post, graduate, research, center, promoting, study, modern, contemporary, china, from, social, science, perspective, center, hosts, organizes, academic, activities, provides, research, funds, faculty, st. 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 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 Hafo daxue Fei Zhengqing zhōngguo yanjiu zhōngxin lit Harvard University Fairbank China Research Center Contents 1 History 1 1 Directors 2 Notes 3 References 4 External linksHistory editThe 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 edit List of directors of the Fairbank Center 1 John K Fairbank 1955 73 3 Ezra Vogel 1973 75 4 Dwight H Perkins 1975 76 acting 5 Roy Hofheinz Jr 1975 79 6 Philip A Kuhn 1980 86 7 Benjamin Schwartz 1983 84 acting 8 Roderick MacFarquhar 1986 92 9 James L Watson 1992 95 Ezra Vogel 1995 99 10 Elizabeth J Perry 1999 2002 Wilt L Idema 2002 2005 Roderick MacFarquhar 2005 2006 William C Kirby 2006 2007 Martin King Whyte 2007 2008 William C Kirby 2008 2010 Mark Elliott 2010 2011 William C Kirby 2011 2013 Mark Elliott 2013 2015 Michael Szonyi 2016 presentNotes edit a b c About the Fairbank Center Fairbank Center Archived from the original on February 24 2016 Retrieved February 17 2016 60th Anniversary Symposium Suleski pp 11 44 Suleski pp 45 58 Suleski p 54 Suleski p 59 Suleski p 75 Suleski p 76 Suleski p 77 Suleski p 99 References editSuleski Ronald Stanley 2005 The Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University a Fifty Year History 1955 2005 Cambridge Harvard University Press ISBN 9780976798002 OCLC 64140358External links editOfficial website nbsp Facebook Fairbank Center Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies ISSUU Fairbank Center Annual Reports 2016 17 to 2021 Professor Xu Zhangrun s Letter to the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University China Heritage Wairopa Academy for New Sinology n d 42 22 30 N 71 06 47 W 42 375 N 71 113 W 42 375 71 113 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies amp oldid 1171181902, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
