Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

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

The center was established in the 1955 as the Center for East Asian Research. and on the retirement of its founding director,

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]

• 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

References

• 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

• 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.)

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