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.
History
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
editList 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–present
Notes
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
edit- Suleski, 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 64140358
External links
edit- 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.)
