Roy Hofheinz Jr. Explained

Awards:	Rhodes Scholarship
Birth Place:	Houston, Texas, U.S.
Discipline:	Government, sinology
Education:	Rice University (BA) Harvard University (PhD)
Father:	Roy Hofheinz
Main Interests:	Chinese Communist Revolution
Roy Mark Hofheinz Jr.
Occupation:	Professor
Relatives:	Fred Hofheinz (brother)
Workplaces:	Harvard University

Roy Mark Hofheinz Jr. (born 1935) is an American academic, sinologist 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 Houston, Texas. He is the son of Texas politician and developer Roy Hofheinz.^[1] He earned a BA at Rice University, and was a Rhodes Scholar. He was awarded a PhD at Harvard in 1967.^[2]

Academic career

In 1975–1979, Hofheinz served as director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research.^[3]

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Roy Hofheinz Jr, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 10+ works in 30 publications in 4 languages and 1,000+ library holdings .^[4]

• 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)

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

Notes and References

1. Johnson, Lady Bird. (2007).
2. Hartocollis, Anemona. "Divining China's Future," Harvard Crimson (US). October 1, 1976, retrieved 2011-05-09
3. Suleski, Ronald Stanley. (2005). The Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University, p. 59; Hays, Laurie. "Kuhn to Teach China Courses Next Year," Harvard Crimson (US). April 5, 1978; retrieved 2011-05-09.
4. http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/identities/default.htm WorldCat Identities