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After spending part of his [[national service]] from 1949 to 1950 in [[Egypt]] and [[Jordan]] as a second lieutenant in the Royal Tank Regiment, he went up to [[Keble College, Oxford|Keble College]], [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] to read [[Philosophy, Politics and Economics]], obtaining a BA in 1953. He then went on to obtain a master's degree from [[Harvard University]] in Far Eastern Regional Studies in 1955, studying with [[John King Fairbank]], who supported his career as a China scholar.
He worked as a journalist on the staff of the ''[[Daily Telegraph]]'' and ''[[Sunday Telegraph]]'' from 1955 to 1961 specialising in China, and also reported for [[BBC]] television ''[[Panorama (TV series)|Panorama]]'' from 1963 to 1965. He was the founding editor of ''[[The China Quarterly]]'' from 1959 to 1968, and a non-resident fellow of [[St Antony's College, Oxford]] from 1965 to 1968. In 1969 he was a senior research fellow at [[Columbia University]] in [[New York City]], and in 1971 he returned to England to hold a similar fellowship at the [[Chatham House|Royal Institute of International Affairs]]. MacFarquhar completed his doctorate at the London School of Economics in 1981.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/roderick-macfarquhar-journalist-and-politician-who-became-a-china-scholar-dies-at-88/2019/02/12/844bd6be-2edb-11e9-813a-0ab2f17e305b_story.html|title=Roderick
==Political career==
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He was a scholar of Chinese politics from the founding of the [[People's Republic of China|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<ref>[http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/identities/default.htm WorldCat Identities]: [http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n50-42024 Macfarqhar, Roderick], Worldcat.org</ref>
==Personal life==
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