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Cohen, Paul . Goldman, Merle (1992). ISBN 978-0-674-29153-9.

Cohen, Paul . Brief reminiscences by students, colleagues, friends, and family.

John King Fairbank (1907-1991) was best known to the public as the dean of Chinese studies in the United States. John Hersey, Haru Reischauer, Harrison Salisbury, and Arthur Schlesinger, J. are among the more than 125 friends, students, and colleagues to contribute to this volume. Each author attempts to capture the essence of the Fairbank he or she knew. The resulting pieces are alternately incisive, affectionate, intimate, deeply affecting, and hilariously funny. Fairbank Remembered" is an endearing and moving portrait of America's doyen on China.

John King Fairbank talks on East Asia and Our Future in 1967 with Edwin O. Reischauer. He reserved his finest efforts, however, for training China specialists at Harvard and building the China field nationwide. Training scholars in a new field (which he once likened to making machine tools, but which he actually practiced as a form of gardening) required persistent cultivation of talent and liberal application of foundation funds

Merle Goldman (born March 12, 1931) is an American historian of modern China.

Merle Goldman (born March 12, 1931) is an American historian of modern China. She is Professor Emerita of History, Boston University, especially known for a series of studies on the role of intellectuals under the rule of Mao Zedong and on the possibilities for democracy and political rights in present-day China.

Paul A. Cohen Merle Goldman, ed. "Fairbank Remembered" (Cambridge, Mass.

Born in South Dakota, John King Fairbank attended local public schools for his early education. From there he went on first to Exeter, then the University of Wisconsin, and ultimately to Harvard, from which he received his . degree summa cum laude in 1929. That year he traveled to Britain as a Rhodes Scholar. Fairbank Remembered (Cambridge, Mass. in Kelly Boyd, (e., Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing (London; Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999). Suleski, Ronald Stanley.

Fairbank Remembered book. The resulting p John King Fairbank (1907-1991) was best known to the public as the dean of Chinese studies in the United States. Fairbank Remembered (Center for East Asian Studies). 0674291530 (ISBN13: 9780674291539).

Both fathers of East Asian Studies at Harvard-Ed Reischauer and John-have now passed away. They have left us-their many children-a great treasure.

Published by: Harvard University Asia Center, Harvard University. John King Fairbank (1907-1991) was best known to the public as the dean of Chinese studies in the United States. John Hersey, Hanu Reischauer, Harrison Salisbury, and Arthur Schlesinger, J. Both fathers of East Asian Studies at Harvard-Ed Reischauer and John-have now passed away.