William H. Hinton

William Hinton
Bill Hinton with his sister Joan at her farm in Beijing (1993)
Born	February 2, 1919 Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Died	May 15, 2004 (aged 85) Concord, Massachusetts, U.S.
Education	Cornell University (BS)
Occupation(s)	Writer, political scientist
Movement	Marxism, Maoism
Spouses	Bertha Sneck ​ (m. 1941⁠–⁠1954)​ Joanne Raiford ​ (m. 1958⁠–⁠1986)​ Katherine Chiu ​ (m. 1987⁠–⁠2004)​
Children	4, including Carma
Parent	Carmelita Hinton (mother)
Relatives	Charles Hinton (grandfather) Ethel Voynich (aunt) Joan Hinton (sister)

William Howard Hinton (Chinese: 韩丁; pinyin: Hán Dīng; February 2, 1919 – May 15, 2004) was an American intellectual, best known for his work on Communism in China. A Marxist, he is best known for his book Fanshen, published in 1966, a "documentary of revolution" which chronicled the land reform program of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the 1940s in Zhangzhuangcun (张庄村, pinyin: Zhāngzhuāngcūn), sometimes translated as Long Bow Village, a village in Shanxi Province in northern China.^[1] Sequels (Shenfan) followed the experience of the village during the 1950s and Cultural Revolution. Hinton wrote and lectured extensively to explain the Maoist approach and later to criticize Deng Xiaoping's market-orient reforms.