Roy Hofheinz Jr.

Roy Mark Hofheinz Jr. (born 1935) is an American academic, sinologist who was Professor of Government at Harvard University. 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
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, 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)