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Roderick MacFarquhar
British China scholar and politician (1930–2019) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Roderick Lemonde MacFarquhar (2 December 1930 – 10 February 2019) was a British China scholar, politician, and journalist.
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Quick Facts Member of Parliament for Belper, Preceded by ...
Roderick MacFarquhar | |
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Member of Parliament for Belper | |
In office 28 February 1974 – 7 April 1979 | |
Preceded by | Geoffrey Stewart-Smith |
Succeeded by | Sheila Faith |
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Born | Roderick Lemonde MacFarquhar (1930-12-02)2 December 1930 Lahore, British India |
Died | 10 February 2019(2019-02-10) (aged 88) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Political party | Labour (before 1981) |
Other political affiliations | SDP (1980s) |
Spouses | Emily Cohen
(m. 1964; died 2001)Dalena Wright (m. 2012) |
Children | 2, including Larissa |
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Main interests | Modern Chinese history |
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MacFarquhar was founding editor of China Quarterly in 1959. He served as a Member of Parliament in the 1970s, then joined the BBC. In the 1980s, he became a professor at Harvard University, where he served several terms as director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. He was best known for his studies of Maoist China, the three-volume The Origins of the Cultural Revolution and Mao's Last Revolution.[1]