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John King Fairbank (1907 – 1991) was an American historian of China and United States-China relations. He taught at Harvard University from 1936 until his retirement in 1977. He is credited with building the field of China studies in the United States after World War II with his organizational ability, his mentorship of students, support of fellow scholars, and formulation of basic concepts to be tested. The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard is named after him.
A New History
1992
Tradition & Transformation
1978
A Fifty Year Memoir
1982
Tradition and Transformation
1973
A Bibliographical Guide to Historical and Social-Science Research on the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
1975
His Journals, 1863–1866
1991
Volume 10, Late Ch'ing 1800-1911, Part 1
1978
Late Ch'ing, 1800-1911, Part 2
1980
Republican China, 1912-1949, Part 1
1983
1986
Traditional China's Foreign Relations
1968
1986
1948
The Opening of the Treaty Ports, 1842-1854
1953
