Roderick Macfarquhar is Leroy B. Williams Research Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard. His most recent book is the edited volume The Politics of China: Sixty Years of the People’s Republic of China. (April 2013)
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The ‘Breaking of an Honorable Career’
April 25, 2013
China Hand: An Autobiography
by John Paton Davies Jr.
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Who Was Mao Zedong?
October 25, 2012
Mao: The Real Story
by Alexander V. Pantsov with Steven I. Levine
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‘No Truck With Pakistan’
November 24, 2011
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The Worst Man-Made Catastrophe, Ever
February 10, 2011
Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–1962
by Frank Dikötter
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The Pride of Empire
September 24, 2009
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781–1997
by Piers Brendon
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Mission to Mao
June 28, 2007
Nixon and Mao: The Week that Changed the World
by Margaret MacMillan
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India: The Imprint of Empire
October 23, 1997
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Demolition Man
March 27, 1997
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Deng’s Last Campaign
December 17, 1992
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John King Fairbank (1907–1991)
October 24, 1991
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The Anatomy of Collapse
September 26, 1991
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The End of the Chinese Revolution
July 20, 1989
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Passing the Baton in Beijing
February 18, 1988
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The End of the Long March
December 19, 1985