Roy Mark Hofheinz Jr. (born 1935) is an American academic,

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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

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. He is the son of Texas politician and developer Roy Hofheinz. He earned a BA at Rice University, and was a

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. He was awarded a

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at Harvard in 1967.Hartocollis, Anemona
"Divining China's Future,"
''Harvard Crimson'' (US). October 1, 1976, retrieved 2011-05-09

Academic career

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

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Roy Hofheinz Jr,

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/ WorldCat encompasses roughly 10+ works in 30 publications in 4 languages and 1,000+ library holdings .WorldCat IdentitiesHofheinz, Roy 1935-
/ref> * ''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

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.
OCLC 64140358
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