About the speaker: One of the most renowned China specialists, Roderick MacFarquhar’s publications include The Hundred Flowers Campaign and the Chinese Intellectuals, The Sino-Soviet Dispute, China under Mao; Sino-American Relations, 1949-1971; The Secret Speeches of Chairman Mao; the final two volumes of the Cambridge History of China (edited with the late John Fairbank); The Politics of China nd (3^rd ed.): Sixty Years of the People’s Republic of China; and a trilogy, The Origins of the Cultural Revolution; and Mao’s Last Revolution (co-author John Fairbank). He was the founding editor of “The China Quarterly,” and has been a fellow at Columbia University, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Royal Institute for International Affairs. In previous personae, he has been a journalist, TV commentator, and Member of Parliament.