Mark Edward Lewis

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Mark Edward Lewis
Born (1954-09-25) September 25, 1954 (age 69)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
Scientific career
FieldsChinese history
InstitutionsCambridge University
Stanford University
Doctoral advisorHo Ping-ti

Mark Edward Lewis (born September 25, 1954) is an American sinologist and historian of ancient China.

Life and career

Mark Edward Lewis was born on September 25, 1954. He received his B.A. from the University of Chicago and studied Chinese at the International Chinese Language Program (ICLP)[citation needed]. He stayed at Chicago for graduate study in Chinese under the Chinese-American sinologst Ho Ping-ti, earning a Ph.D. in 1985 with a dissertation entitled "The Imperial Transformation of Violence in Ancient China".

Since 2002 he has been Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in Chinese Culture at Stanford University.[1] Previously he was a Reader at the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Cambridge.[2] He is the author of a number of books on ancient China.

References

  1. ^ History Department, Stanford University
  2. ^ http://www.eai.cam.ac.uk/newsletter_july2002.pdf

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