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The Politics of China

The Eras of Mao and Deng

The Politics of China( )
Editor: MacFarquhar, Roderick
ISBN:978-0-511-62609-8
Publication Date:Jun 2012
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Book Format:Digital (delivered electronically)
List Price:USD $225.00
Book Description:

This volume offers a comprehensive introduction to, and analysis of, the politics of the People's Republic of China from 1949 to the mid-1990s. Four of the chapters are drawn from The Cambridge History of China, and the other chapters have been written specifically for this volume.

Author Biography
(Editor)
Roderick Lemonde MacFarquhar was born in Lahore, India on December 2, 1930. He graduated with a degree in philosophy, politics and economics from Keble College, Oxford University, in 1953. He briefly worked at The Telegraph of London before receiving a master's degree in East Asian studies from Harvard University.

In 1960, he founded The China Quarterly, an academic journal on Chinese politics and economics published by the University of Cambridge. He was elected to Parliament in Britain as a Labour candidate in 1974 and served for five years. He went on to teach history and political science at Harvard. He was the director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard from 1986 to 1992, and again from 2005 to 2006. He wrote several books including The Origins of the Cultural Revolution. He died from heart failure on February 10, 2019 at the age of 88.

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