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- 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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