Roy Mark Hofheinz Jr. (December 18, 1935 – November 3, 2023) was an American

sinologist Sinology, also referred to as China studies, is a subfield of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on China. It is an academic discipline that focuses on the study of the Chinese civilizatio ...

who was a Professor of Government at

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, heading the

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from 1975 to 1979. He is best known for his work on the

Chinese Communist Revolution The Chinese Communist Revolution was a social revolution, social and political revolution in China that began in 1927 and culminated with the proclamation of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949. The revolution was led by the Chinese C ...

Personal life

Hofheinz was born in

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. He is the son of Texas politician and developer

Roy Hofheinz Roy Mark Hofheinz (April 10, 1912 – November 22, 1982), popularly known as Judge Hofheinz or "The Judge", was a Texas state representative from 1935 to 1937 ( 44th legislature), county judge of Harris County, Texas from 1936 to 1944, a ...

. He earned a BA at

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, and was a

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. He was awarded a

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at Harvard in 1967.Hartocollis, Anemona
"Divining China's Future,"
''Harvard Crimson'' (US). October 1, 1976, retrieved 2011-05-09

Academic career

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

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Roy Hofheinz Jr,

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encompasses roughly 10+ works in 30 publications in 4 languages and 1,000+ library holdings .WorldCat IdentitiesHofheinz, Roy 1935-
/ref> * ''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)

Notes

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
1935 births American Rhodes Scholars 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers American sinologists Rice University alumni Harvard University alumni Harvard University faculty Historians of China American male non-fiction writers Academics from Texas Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies people {{US-academic-stub