Roy Hofheinz Jr.

Roy Mark Hofheinz Jr. (December 18, 1935 – November 3, 2023) was an American sinologist who was a Professor of Government at Harvard University, heading the Fairbank Center from 1975 to 1979. He is best known for his work on the Chinese Communist Revolution.

Roy Hofheinz Jr.
Born	Roy Mark Hofheinz Jr. (1935-12-18)December 18, 1935 Houston, Texas, U.S.
Died	November 3, 2023(2023-11-03) (aged 87) Rancho Mirage, California, U.S.
Occupation	Professor
Spouse	Susan Hart ​ (m. 1981)​
Father	Roy Hofheinz
Relatives	Fred Hofheinz (brother)
Awards	Rhodes Scholarship
Academic background
Education	Rice University (BA) Harvard University (PhD)
Academic work
Discipline	Government, sinology
Institutions	Harvard University
Main interests	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]

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• 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)