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William H. Hinton
American China expert (1919–2004)
For other people named William Hinton, see William Hinton (disambiguation).
William Howard Hinton (Chinese: 韩丁; pinyin: Hán Dīng; February 2, 1919 – May 15, 2004) was an American intellectual, known for his work on communism in China. He authored the 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.
Early life and education
Hinton was born on February 2, 1919, in Chicago.[1] His great-grandfather was the mathematician George Boole, his grandfather was the mathematician Charles Howard Hinton, and his father
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Black History Month: Dr. William Augustus Hinton
The following blog post is authored by Annaliese Collins, a public health major at Muhlenberg College, class of 2023. They are passionate about peer education, community health and wellness, and disease prevention.
Black History Month
Black History Month challenges Americans to learn more about the integral role that Black Americans have in the history of our country.
Some of the most important developments made within the fields of medicine and science were made possible by Black doctors, biologists, professors, researchers, and patients. Families Fighting Flu will be reflecting on the legacies of five Black pioneers in medicine and science. In this post, we highlight Dr. William Augustus Hinton.
Dr. William Augustus Hinton
Dr. William Augustus Hinton (1883-1959) was the first Black Havard professor and the first Black writer to author a published medical textbook. Born to formerly enslaved persons, Augustus Hinton and Maria Clark, Dr. Hinton graduated from Harvard first in 1905 with a bachelor of science degree
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William Augustus Hinton
William A. Hinton was born on December 15, 1883, in Chicago, Illinois. His parents had both been enslaved. He entered Harvard College in 1902 and graduated in 1905. Between college and medical school, Hinton taught at Walden University in Nashville, Tennessee, the Agricultural and Mechanical College in Langston, Oklahoma, and Meharry Medical College, and continued his own education during the summer at the University of Chicago. He entered HMS in 1909 and completed the MD degree in 1912. Hinton was awarded the Hayden scholarship, reserved for African American students, but turned it down and competed for and was awarded the Wigglesworth Scholarship. He wanted to specialize in surgery, but after being denied by Boston-area hospitals, turned to the laboratory.
In 1912, Dr. Hinton began working part-time as a volunteer assistant in the Department of Pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital, and for three years he performed autopsies on all persons suspected of having syphilis. He then worked at the Wassermann Laboratory, which was the Massachusetts Sta
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