论费正清与中国研究学科发展及其学术思想

John King Fairbank with the Disciplinary Development of Chinese Studies and Its Academic Thoughts

费正清是现代美国中国学巨擘,哈佛大学终身教授,著作等身。美国东亚区域学科建设肇始于战后美国与亚太区域关系的政治发展需要,包括费正清在内的亚洲学者为这一学科建设作出了积极贡献。费正清是以中国研究作为东亚区域学科建设的核心内容,并团结相关领域的学者们合力打造了东亚区域学科,成为美国文化教育事业的一项重大事件,为当前美国的世界文化交流和以中国研究为核心的东亚区域学科建设奠定了深厚的学术基础。

The lifelong professor in Harvard University of John King Fairbank is a leading figure in American Chinese Studies who brought out a prolific body of works.The American discipline construction of Southeast region initiated from the political necessity of international relations in the Asia-Pacific Region.Scholars on Asia including John King Fairbank devoted a lot to this disciplinary development.He made Chinese Studies the center of the regional disciplinary construction in Southeast Asia.So did he founded Modern Chinese Studies with other scholars in relevant fields.This ended up a grand event in the development of American culture and education,which built up profound academic basis for American communication with world culture and regional disciplinary construction centered with Chinese Studies.