John King Fairbank
John King Fairbank (1907-1991) was an American historian of China who taught at Harvard University from 1936 until his retirement in 1977. He is widely regarded as the father of Chinese Studies in America. Fairbank traveled to Beijing in 1932 as a Rhodes Scholar, and during World War II he worked as an intelligence officer in the wartime…
John King Fairbank (1907-1991) was an American historian of China who taught at Harvard University from 1936 until his retirement in 1977. He is widely regarded as the father of Chinese Studies in America. Fairbank traveled to Beijing in 1932 as a Rhodes Scholar, and during World War II he worked as an intelligence officer in the wartime capital of Chongqing. In 1955 he founded Harvard’s East Asian Research Center, renamed the Fairbank Center after his retirement.