Roy Hofheinz Jr.

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 his Bachelor of Arts degree at Rice University and was a Rhodes Scholar. He was awarded a Ph.D. 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]

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  • 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


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