Roderick MacFarquhar
Roderick MacFarquhar | |
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| Member of Parliament for Belper | |
| In office 28 February 1974 – 7 April 1979 | |
| Preceded by | Geoffrey Stewart-Smith |
| Succeeded by | Sheila Faith |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Roderick Lemonde MacFarquhar 2 December 1930 Lahore, British India |
| Died | 10 February 2019 (aged 88) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Political party | Labour (before 1981) |
| Other political affiliations | SDP (1980s) |
| Spouses | Emily Cohen
(m. 1964; died 2001)Dalena Wright (m. 2012) |
| Children | 2, including Larissa |
| Alma mater | |
| Philosophical work | |
| Institutions | |
| Main interests | Modern Chinese history |
Roderick Lemonde MacFarquhar (2 December 1930 – 10 February 2019) was a British sinologist, politician, and journalist.
MacFarquhar was founding editor of China Quarterly in 1959. He served as a Member of Parliament in the 1970s, then joined the BBC. In the 1980s, he became a professor at Harvard University, where he served several terms as director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. He was best known for his studies of Maoist China, the three-volume The Origins of the Cultural Revolution and Mao's Last Revolution.