Chapter 1 Preface
Fairbank is the most prestigious sinologist in the United States and in the world.His works and his main views represent the views of mainstream American society, and have had a profound influence on several generations of American scholars and politicians.
The publication of this set of "Fairbank Anthology" is of great significance for domestic readers to understand overseas research results on China issues and to calmly look at their own history and culture.Since Fairbank is an observer of China issues in the West, he naturally looks at China from a Western perspective. Therefore, the views he expressed in the book do not represent our understanding, and there are even many views that we cannot agree with. I hope readers Pay attention while reading.
Fairbank's status in American academic circles, his experience and the breadth of his communication put him in the position of a sage and a messenger in the reconstruction of academic exchanges between the United States and China.
paul evans
This crisp and lucid work is the essence of Fairbank's works.Our oldest and most influential sinologists continue to crusade with their lives.But Fairbank's research challenged the severe limitations of human life and intelligence.His distinctive and dynamic essays provide the best primer for the general reader to understand how America has seen China over the past 15 years. Andrew Nathan
With a rare genius, superhuman diligence, supernatural understanding and discernment ability, he organizes the myriad of Chinese history into a clear context, which can be called a brilliant pen. Joseph Levinson
With a broad and profound academic foundation, he comprehensively sorts out Chinese history and culture, communicates ancient and modern Chinese and Western, and breaks through the barriers between cultures... The brushwork is smooth, expressive and expressive, reaching the highest level of Chinese studies. george steth
Unlike ordinary foreigners who comment on Chinese works, he has always analyzed and commented on everything that is happening now through the evolution of China over thousands of years from the perspective of a historian.This is the work of an upstanding American scholar with the deepest affection for our country and the least opinion.In any case, it is worthy of our attention. Xiao Qian
Although Fairbank's major is modern Chinese history and modern history, he has always recognized that Chinese culture is not only continuous, but also an independent system; if one does not have an understanding of Chinese traditions, one cannot clean up its modern changes.Therefore, he did have the desire to understand the history of China before modern times. Yu Yingshi
This crisp and lucid work is the essence of Fairbank's works.Our oldest and most influential sinologists continue to crusade with their lives.But Fairbank's research challenged the severe limitations of human life and intelligence.His distinctive and dynamic essays provide the best primer for the general reader to understand how America has seen China over the past 15 years. Andrew Nathan
With a rare genius, superhuman diligence, supernatural understanding and discernment ability, he organizes the myriad of Chinese history into a clear context, which can be called a brilliant pen. Joseph Levinson
With a broad and profound academic foundation, he comprehensively sorts out Chinese history and culture, communicates ancient and modern Chinese and Western, and breaks through the barriers between cultures... The brushwork is smooth, expressive and expressive, reaching the highest level of Chinese studies. george steth
Unlike ordinary foreigners who comment on Chinese works, he has always analyzed and commented on everything that is happening now through the evolution of China over thousands of years from the perspective of a historian.This is the work of an upstanding American scholar with the deepest affection for our country and the least opinion.In any case, it is worthy of our attention. Xiao Qian
Although Fairbank's major is modern Chinese history and modern history, he has always recognized that Chinese culture is not only continuous, but also an independent system; if one does not have an understanding of Chinese traditions, one cannot clean up its modern changes.Therefore, he did have the desire to understand the history of China before modern times. Yu Yingshi