People's Republic through to the Cultural Revolution. Volume three of his study The Origins of the Cultural Revolution: The Coming of the Cataclysm 1961-1966 (1997) won the Joseph Levenson Book Prize for 1999. In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Roderick MacFarquhar, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 140+ works in 330+ publications in 11 languages and 15,700+ library holdings Personal life MacFarquhar married Emily Cohen, a journalist and East Asian studies scholar, in 1964. They had two children, the writer Larissa MacFarquhar and economist Rory MacFarquhar, who served as policy adviser in the Obama administration. His first wife died in 2001. He married his second wife, British foreign policy scholar Dalena Wright, in 2012. MacFarquhar died from heart failure at a hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts on 10 February 2019, at age 88. Bibliography Books China Under Mao: Politics Takes Command (1963) Chinese ambitions and British policy Fabian tract (1966) Sino-American Relations: 1949-1971 (1972) The Forbidden City (1972) The Origins of the Cultural Revolution - 1. Contradictions Among the People, 1956-1957 (1974) The Origins of the Cultural Revolution - 2. The Great Leap Forward, 1958-1960 (1983) The People's Republic: The Emergence of Revolutionary China, 1949-1965 (1987) The Politics of China, 1949-1989 (1993) Towards a New World Order (1993) The Politics of China: The Eras of Mao and Deng (1997) The Origins of the Cultural Revolution - 3. The Coming of the Cataclysm, 1961-1966 (1997) The Paradox of China's Post-Mao Reforms (1999) Mao's Last Revolution (2006), with Michael Schoenhals, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, . The Politics of China: Sixty Years of The People's Republic of China (2011) Book reviews Notes References Suleski, Ronald Stanley. (2005). The Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University: a Fifty Year History, 1955-2005. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ; OCLC 64140358 External links Roderick MacFarquhar, journalist and politician who became a China scholar, dies at 88 Washington Post, 12 February 2019 Roderick MacFarquhar, Eminent China Scholar, Dies at 88 New York Times, 12 February 2019 Roderick MacFarquhar obituary The Guardian, 20 February 2019 Home page at Harvard. MacFarquhar's reviews for The New York Review of Books. Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 6 April and 16 June 2017 (video) 1930 births 2019 deaths 20th-century British journalists 20th-century British male writers 20th-century British non-fiction writers 21st-century British male writers 21st-century British non-fiction writers Alumni of Keble College, Oxford Alumni of the University of London