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1.In the 1950s, the late John King Fairbank, the dean of modern China studies at Harvard, used to tell us graduate students a joke about the allegation that a group of red-leaning foreign service officers and academics—the four Johns—had “lost” China: John Paton Davies, John Stewart Service, John Carter Vincent, and John King Fairbank himself. What the McCarthyites had

A heartfelt documentary about the director of such celebrated films as “All the President’s Men” has the feel of an A-list memorial service.

Charlie Soong, born in 1866, was a new kind of figure in Chinese history, an independent-minded youngster with an openness to the world who came to Boston from Hainan Island at the age of twelve to work in a store. At fourteen he stowed away on a Coast Guard cutter, was baptized a Christian, enrolled in school, and learned enough English to graduate from Vanderbilt. Returning

those who are going to be most effective that this are people who are going to have a strong spiritual center, and what has impressed me as i look at the conservative movement growing in the past generation or two is the success of let us say the evangelicals and creating a kind of alternative universe as someone has called that a parallel universe, that was the phrase, of institutions, of ways of transmitting their values, their faith to the next generation as well as to those of the ...

>> next, from the seattle asian art museum, hannah pakula presents a biography of the wife of the former taiwanese president. she was a prominent voice for nationalist china and served as her husbands translator and secretary. this event is 45 minutes. .. >> a brilliant book about the roosevelt white house. weve been having one of our usual dinner conversations without our work. i.e., neither of us listening to gleek carefully to what the other one was saying. when alan told me about t...