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Roderick MacFarquhar

Roderick MacFarquhar was Leroy B. Williams Professor Emeritus of History and Political Science at Harvard and editor of The Politics of China: Sixty Years of the People’s Republic of China.

Mission Impossible

The China Mission: George Marshall’s Unfinished War, 1945–1947

by Daniel Kurtz-Phelan

September 27, 2018 issue

Paddling to Peking

Ping-Pong Diplomacy: The Secret History Behind the Game That Changed the World

by Nicholas Griffin

March 20, 2014 issue

Who Was Mao Zedong?

Who Was Mao Zedong?

Mao: The Real Story

by Alexander V. Pantsov with Steven I. Levine

October 25, 2012 issue

The Pride of Empire

The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781–1997

by Piers Brendon

September 24, 2009 issue

Mission to Mao

Nixon and Mao: The Week that Changed the World

by Margaret MacMillan

June 28, 2007 issue

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