The authorities have never publicly estimated how many died in the Cultural Revolution, while the British historian Roderick MacFarquhar has estimated half a million deaths in 1967 alone. Step into a ...

“The Chairman could not abide ‘lazy’ bureaucrats,” the historians Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals write in “Mao’s Last Revolution.” In 1964, Mao declared, “Laziness is ...

The CCP made it possible for Mao to earn royalties in enormous quantities Prof Roderick MacFarquhar Jiang, also known as Madam Mao, even brought the subject up with China's former leader before he ...

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

Yang’s book, published in New York in 2012, with an introduction by distinguished Sinologists Edward Friedman and Roderick MacFarquhar, is called Tombstone. Yang wrote of his experience ...

Research by the Sinologists Michael Schoenhals and Roderick MacFarquhar details how central leadership also instigated the brutal investigations of lower party officials and then delegated those ...

Dong Yuyu stands at the gates of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., in May 2017. (Dong Family via AP) Journalism — whether gathering news, or ...

Harvard professor Roderick MacFarquhar says the People’s Republic was perhaps the “best run and most tightly disciplined party-state within the Communist bloc.” Similarly, Biden’s ...

Historian Roderick MacFarquhar labeled a similar phenomenon during the Mao era as “working toward the Chairman.” In a recent essay, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi described this as “great ...

It was described as "a masterpiece of undercover work" by the late Harvard professor Roderick MacFarquhar. Code-named "[Operation Marco] Polo II" and publicly announced weeks before Kissinger left ...

The so-called Asian Miracle was unfolding on China’s eastern borders — in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan — but, as Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals described it in 2009, “China itself ...

Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals, the authors of the 2006 classic Mao’s Last Revolution. Yang’s book has no heroes, only swarms of combatants engaged in a “repetitive process in ...