Roderick MacFarquhar

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Roderick MacFarquhar
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 (1930-12-02)2 December 1930 Lahore, British India
Died	10 February 2019(2019-02-10) (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	Keble College, Oxford (BA) Harvard University (MA) London School of Economics (PhD)
Philosophy career
Institutions	Harvard University School of Oriental and African Studies Columbia University Oxford University
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.^[1]