Roy Hofheinz Jr.
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Roy Mark Hofheinz Jr. (December 18, 1935 – November 3, 2023) was an American sinologist who was a Professor of Government at Harvard University, heading the Fairbank Center from 1975 to 1979. He is best known for his work on the Chinese Communist Revolution.
Roy Hofheinz Jr. | |
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| Born | Roy Mark Hofheinz Jr. December 18, 1935 Houston, Texas, U.S. |
| Died | November 3, 2023 (aged 87) Rancho Mirage, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Spouse | |
| Father | Roy Hofheinz |
| Relatives | Fred Hofheinz (brother) |
| Awards | Rhodes Scholarship |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Rice University (BA) Harvard University (PhD) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Government, sinology |
| Institutions | Harvard University |
| Main interests | 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)
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