en The John King Fairbank Library See all items with this value

1994

en In 1994 the Institute was donated a valuable Sinological library of an American Sinologist John King Fairbank. Harvard University history professor John King Fairbank (1907-1991) is considered the founder of Chinese historical studies in the US. Before his death in 1991, he expressed a wish that the English part of his library should go to a non-English speaking country. J.K. .Fairbank's wife Mrs. Wilma Fairbank remembered Professor Jaroslav Průšek (1906-1980), former director of the Oriental Institute in Prague and a leading expert on modern Chinese literature, with whom she and her husband had been friends since the 1960s. Jaroslav Průšek was then in the USA at the invitation of the American Association of Asian Studies. In addition to attending its general meeting, he had the opportunity to get acquainted with American researchers and centers of sinological studies. Mrs. Fairbank decided to offer her husband's anglophone library to the Oriental Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. See all items with this value

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John King Fairbank

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