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Roy Mark Hofheinz Jr.
Born1935 (age 88–89)
Occupation Professor
Parent
Relatives Fred Hofheinz (brother)
Awards Rhodes Scholarship
Academic background
Education Rice University ( BA)
Harvard University ( PhD)
Academic work
Discipline Government, sinology
InstitutionsHarvard University
Main interests Chinese Communist Revolution

Roy Mark Hofheinz Jr. (born 1935) is an American academic, sinologist who was Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is best-known for his work on the Chinese Communist Revolution.

Personal life

Hofheinz was born in Houston, Texas. He is the son of Texas politician and developer Roy Hofheinz. [1] He earned a BA at Rice University, and was a Rhodes Scholar. He was awarded a PhD at Harvard in 1967. [2]

Academic career

In 1975–1979, Hofheinz served as director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research. [3]

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Roy Hofheinz Jr, OCLC/ WorldCat encompasses roughly 10+ works in 30 publications in 4 languages and 1,000+ library holdings . [4]

  • Rural Administration in Communist China (1962)
  • Chinese Communist Politics in Action (1969)
  • China County Development: a Preliminary Atlas (1972)
  • The Origins of Chinese Communist Concept of Rural Revolution (1974)
  • A Catalog of Kuang-tung Land Records in the Taiwan Branch of the National Central Library (1975)
  • The Broken Wave: the Chinese Communist Peasant Movement, 1922-1928 (1977)
  • The Eastasia Edge (1982)

Notes

  1. ^ Johnson, Lady Bird. (2007). A White House Diary, p. 561., p. 561, at Google Books
  2. ^ Hartocollis, Anemona. "Divining China's Future," Harvard Crimson (US). October 1, 1976, retrieved 2011-05-09
  3. ^ Suleski, Ronald Stanley. (2005). The Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University, p. 59; Hays, Laurie. "Kuhn to Teach China Courses Next Year," Harvard Crimson (US). April 5, 1978; retrieved 2011-05-09.
  4. ^ WorldCat Identities: Hofheinz, Roy 1935-

References

  • Suleski, Ronald Stanley. (2005). The Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University: a Fifty Year History, 1955–2005. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN  9780976798002; OCLC 64140358