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Director's Welcome • Fall 2009 |
Special EventsTuesday, December 1, 2009 Thursday, December 10, 2009 Upcoming Events
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This October 1, the People’s Republic of China commemorates its 60th anniversary, having completed a first, full cycle of years according to the ancient stem-branch system. Sixty is an important birthday. Confucius said: “At sixty, my ear was an obedient organ for the reception of truth.” With that principle in mind, the Fairbank Center convened scholars from around the globe for a major conference last May, “The People’s Republic of China at 60: An International Assessment.” It was an extraordinarily energetic exchange of views and has since been followed by conferences on similar themes in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Beijing. We can now look past October 1 to an active and different year at the Fairbank Center. It is active, of course, because it always is: our mission is no less than to study China in all its dimensions, present and past, through the lenses of the humanities, the social sciences, and now also the sciences. We do so in the new year, however, also in partnership with our new graduate student associates, stellar scholars who are completing their dissertations at the Center and who are now a more direct part of our community. With a wide range of research interests, from Manchu history to Shanghai architecture to Chinese corporate governance, the GSAs will do much to keep us honest. read on >> |
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