William C. Kirby Returns as
Director of the Fairbank Center
 William C. Kirby is T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He is a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. He serves as the Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Chairman of the Harvard China Fund.
For the 2008-2009 academic year, Bill returns from his year-long sabbatical to again take up active leadership of the Fairbank Center. Among the major conferences he has planned will be a Conference on Higher Education in China to be held 10 to 12 October 2008. This reflects an area that Bill has been researching and speaking about for the past several years. He has also scheduled a major conference to be held from 1 to 3 May 2009 on the theme of the 60th Anniversary of the People’s Republic of China.
While Bill was on sabbatical, the Acting Director was Martin K. Whyte, Professor of Sociology.
A New Name and a New Seal for the Fairbank Center
In the summer of 2007, the Fairbank Center officially changed its name to the John King Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, a change reflecting more accurately the focus of research conducted by the majority of Center scholars. The Center’s original name, with the inclusion of East Asian research, reflected the earliest decades when the Center sponsored research on East Asia as a whole. full article >>
2008 Annual Reischauer Lecture series:
Population in the Rise of Global China and Vietnam
 The Fairbank Center invited noted population expert and anthropologist Susan Greenhalgh to give the 2008 Reischauer Lecture. Professor Greenhalgh received her PhD from Columbia University, and is currently Professor of Anthropology at the University of California at Irvine. full article >>
Postdoctoral Workshops
Saturday, March 1
"Urban Space, Activism, and the Everyday in Twentieth-Century China" full article >>
Saturday, April 12
"Contemporary Temple Networks in Taiwan and China" full article >>
Saturday, May 31
"Public Finance and Market Economy in Late Nineteenth-Century China, 1850–1911" full article >>
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Welcome from Marty Whyte
Acting Director of the Fairbank Center
 Welcome one and all to the start of a new academic year of activities at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies! This opening statement conveys two new developments at the Fairbank Center. First, our Director, William Kirby, will be enjoying a richly deserved sabbatical leave this year, and I will be serving as Acting Director in his absence. Second, we have changed our name, from the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research to the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. full article >>
Workshop, Saturday–Sunday, May 17–18, 2008
"Telling Lives In Vietnam"
This workshop will explore issues involved in telling the lives of Vietnamese, examining traditional and modern examples of biographical writings, including the biographical entries of eminent figures (liet truyen) in traditional gazetteers and chronicles and biographies and memoirs of Vietnamese Catholics. full article >>
Workshop, Friday–Sunday, May 29–31, 2008
"Mapping New Directions in Chinese Local History"
All over China, ancestral halls, lineage organizations, and local cults are being revived today, both as the material of local historical memory and identity and as modes of social influence and power. full article >>
Conference, Guangzhou, November 1–2, 2007
“The Cold War in Asia” full article >>
Conference on Tibet, November 28 and 29, 2007
“Autonomy in Tibet” full article >>
Latest Publications from the Fairbank Center:
Articulating Citizenship: Civic Education and Student Politics in Southeastern China, 1912–1940 by Robert Culp full article >>
Some Assembly Required: Work, Community, and Politics in China’s Rural Enterprises by Calvin Chen full article >>
New Visiting Scholars Arrive at the Fairbank Center full article >>
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