Skip to content
AFTER CERTAINTY

Person

Roderick MacFarquhar

Historians of Mao's China drawing on archival sources for everyday life under radical campaigns.

Why this matters

Their documentary history shows interpretation under terror—what people could say and remember.

Focus in observatory

Works

book

Mao’s Last Revolution

MacFarquhar, Roderick, and Michael Schoenhals. *Mao’s Last Revolution*. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.

Related books

Book

When Interpretation No Longer Matters

Authority After Understanding Collapses

When explanation, evidence, and repair fail—and what kinds of authority remain when public understanding collapses.