Ross Terrill, author and China specialist, graduated in history from the University of Melbourne and served in the Australian Army. After his Ph.D. at Harvard he joined the Harvard faculty in 1971 and was associate professor 1974‑1980. Both an Australian and an American citizen, he is Associate in Research at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard and an occasional Visiting Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. His eight books on China include China in Our Time, Madame Mao, 800,000,000, Flowers on an Iron Tree, and Mao. His The New Chinese Empire won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He is a many‑time contributor to Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, New Republic, National Geographic, Weekly Standard, and Wall Street Journal. His prizes include the National Magazine Award and the George Polk Award for International Reporting.

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