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<text id=91TT2181>
<title>
Sep. 30, 1991: Died:John K. Fairbank
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Sep. 30, 1991 Curing Infertility
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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MILESTONES, Page 63
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<p> DIED. John K. Fairbank, 84, pre-eminent American scholar of
Chinese history; in Cambridge, Mass. Educated at Harvard and
Oxford, Fairbank first went to China in the early 1930s and
joined the Harvard faculty in 1936. During World War II he
served in the Office of Strategic Services and as an aide to the
U.S. ambassador to China. In 1946 Fairbank returned to Harvard,
where he helped build one of the world's leading centers of East
Asian studies. After Chiang Kai-shek's army was routed by the
communists in 1949, Senator Joseph McCarthy charged that
Fairbank helped "lose China" by turning the Truman
Administration against Chiang. In the 1960s Fairbank advocated
U.S. diplomatic recognition of the Beijing regime and its
admission to the U.N.
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</body></article>
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