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- Died
- Roderick MacFarquhar was born on December 2, 1930 in Lahore, Punjab, British India [now Pakistan]. He was married to Dalena Wright and Emily Jane Cohen. He died on February 10, 2019 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
- SpousesDalena Wright(2012 - 2019) (his death)Emily Jane Cohen(December 23, 1964 - 2001) (her death, 2 children)
- ChildrenRory MacFarquhar
- ParentsAlexander MacFarquharBerenice
- His father was a British diplomat who became a high-ranking United Nations official. Dr. MacFarquhar grew up in India and Scotland, served in the British military, and graduated from the University of Oxford. He received a master's degree in East Asian studies from Harvard. After serving five years in the UK House of Commons, he completed a doctorate at the London School of Economics and held several academic fellowships before joining the faculty at Harvard; he taught well into his 80s.
- His surname is pronounced mac-FARK-er.
- He was a British journalist who was a leading authority on China's Communist revolution. During a 60-year career, he wrote or edited more than a dozen books on 20th-century China.
- China scholar.
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