Roderick MacFarquhar, a consummate scholar of Communist China whose writing on Mao’s power politics influenced how people around the world understood China, died on Sunday in Cambridge ...

Professor Roderick MacFarquhar, a prominent Western specialist on China, particularly the Cultural Revolution, died on Sunday. He was 88. Harvard University’s Fairbank Centre for China Studies ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Roderick MacFarquhar is a Professor for History and Political Science in the Harvard University with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2006 ...

Roderick “Rod” L. MacFarquhar, a professor of history and political science renowned for his close study of Chinese communism, died of heart failure on Feb. 10 at the age of 88. A professor at Harvard ...

In this exhaustive critique of the terrifying Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution between 1966 and 1976, when Mao unleashed the Red Guards on his people, MacFarquhar (director of the Fairbank ...

From “China: The Superpower of Mr. Xi” by Roderick MacFarquhar in the Aug. 13 New York Review of Books: What Xi [Jinping] did not acknowledge was that when Gorbachev came to power in 1985 ...

Brought up in India, educated at Oxford and Harvard, Mr. MacFarquhar has traveled extensively in Asia and for several years has written books and articles on China and Asian Communism.