Tag: Fairbank Center

  • Campus & Community

    Ezra Vogel, leading expert on East Asia, dead at 90

    Ezra F. Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, died Dec. 20 at Mount Auburn Hospital due to complications from surgery. He was 90. A remarkable contributor…

    Ezra F. Vogel in 2010.
  • Campus & Community

    Asian studies centers, institutes announce grant recipients

    The Harvard Asia Center, the Harvard China Fund, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Korea Institute, the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, and the South Asia Initiative are pleased to announce the recipients of student grants for summer 2009 and academic year 2009-2010.

  • Campus & Community

    Fairbank Center names scholars and postdoc fellows

    The John King Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard has announced its 2007–08 class of postdoctoral fellows, visiting scholars, fellows, and associates. “We are privileged at the Fairbank Center to have so many highly trained scholars in attendance,” said Professor Martin King Whyte, acting director of the Fairbank Center. “While working on their own…

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    Conference in China remembers Benjamin Schwartz

    A major international conference was held Dec. 16-18 at East China Normal University in Shanghai on the occasion of the late Professor Benjamin Schwartz’s 90th birthday. The conference brought together distinguished scholars from the United States, China, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia to celebrate and honor the scholarly interests and accomplishments of Schwartz,…