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.

Personal life Hofheinz was born in Houston, Texas. He is the son of Texas politician and developer Roy Hofheinz. He earned a BA at Rice University, and was a Rhodes Scholar. He was awarded a PhD at Harvard in 1967.

Academic career From 1975 to 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, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 10+ works in 30 publications in 4 languages and 1,000+ library holdings .

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)