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Roderick MacFarquhar is Williams Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard, a distinguished former Chair of the Government department and before coming to Harvard, a Member of Parliament and a TV journalist. He is the author of China Under Mao, of the trilogy The Origins of the Cultural Revolution, Mao’s Last Revolution, and he is co-editor of the final two volumes of the Cambridge History of China.
Presented by the Program on Constitutional Government on September 11, 2015.
Roderick MacFarquhar is Williams Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard, a distinguished former Chair of the Government department and before coming to Harvard, a Member of Parliament and a TV journalist. He is the author of China Under Mao, of the trilogy The Origins of the Cultural Revolution, Mao’s Last Revolution, and he is co-editor of the final two volumes of the Cambridge History of China.
Presented by the Program on Constitutional Government on September 11, 2015.










