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. The center sponsors the Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures .
2-541: The 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. To celebrate its 60th anniversary,
4-558: The center organized a symposium discussing the changes in the landscape of Chinese studies and the changing role of the center. List of directors of the Fairbank Center: 42°22′30″N 71°06′47″W / 42.375°N 71.113°W / 42.375; -71.113 John K. Fairbank Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include
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