Harold C. Hinton

Dr. Hinton taught Political Science at George Washington University from 1967 to 1992. He got his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Harvard University, the latter two both in Far Eastern history. His specialties were China and the Far East and was the editor of "The People's Republic of China: A Handbook" and "The People's Republic of China: A Documentary Survey". During World War II, he served in the Army and was a military historian on Okinawa and in Korea. Dr. Hinton has lectured at Georgetown, the State Department's Foreign Service Institute, Harvard, Columbia, Oxford, Trinity, and Johns Hopkins. He was a member of the American Association for Chinese Studies, the Harvard Club of Washington, Phi Beta Kappa, the Cosmos Club and the parish of Annunciation Catholic Church in Washington. He passed away on September 24, 1993 in Estes Park, Colorado. Read more from Dr. Hinton's obituary here.

Major Publications:

"Communist China and World Politics" (1956), "Introduction to Chinese Politics" (1973 and 1978), "The Bear at the Gate: Chinese Policymaking Under Soviet Pressure" (1971) and "Peking-Washington: Chinese Foreign Policy and the United States" (1976).

Read Professor David Shambaugh's Memorial Essay of Dr. Hinton for The China Quarterly here.