Roderick MacFarquhar (1930-2019) was Director of the John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University and the Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science.
His publications include The Hundred Flowers Campaign and the Chinese Intellectuals (Praeger, 1966); The Sino-Soviet Dispute (coauthored with G.F. Hudson and Richard Lowenthal, Praeger, 1961); China under Mao: Politics Takes Command (M.I.T. Press, 1966); Sino-American Relations, 1949-1971 (Praeger, 1972); The Secret Speeches of Chairman Mao: From the Hundred Flowers to the Great Leap Forward (edited, Harvard University Press, 1989); the final two volumes of the Cambridge History of China (edited with John K. Fairbank, Cambridge University Press, 1987); The Politics of China: The Eras of Mao and Deng 2nd Edition (Cambridge University Press, 1997); a trilogy, The Origins of the Cultural Revolution (Columbia University Press); and Mao’s Last Revolution (coauthored with Michael Schoenhals, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006).
MacFarquhar was the Founding Editor of The China Quarterly and was a fellow at Columbia University, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Royal Institute for International Affairs. In previous personae, he was a journalist, a TV commentator, and a Member of British Parliament.
