Colin Mackerras

Colin Mackerras (* 1939 in Sydney ) is an Australian sinologist and specialist in Chinese culture - above all drama -, the national minorities of China , Australian-Chinese relations and images of China in the West.

biography

Colin Mackerras was raised Catholic, studied at Cambridge University , came to the People's Republic of China for the first time in 1964 with his wife and taught at the Foreign Language Institute (now Beijing Foreign Language University ) in Beijing until 1966 . During this time his eldest son was born and they saw the beginning of the Cultural Revolution in the city.

In 1970 he received his PhD from the Department of Far Eastern History at the Australian National University . Colin Mackerras is Professor emeritus of Griffith University in Brisbane ( Queensland ). The conductor Charles Mackerras is one of his brothers.

Works (selection)

as an author

• China's ethnic minorities and globalization . Routledge-Curzon, New York 2003, ISBN 0-415-30901-8 .
• The new Cambridge handbook of contemporary China . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 2001, ISBN 0-521-78674-6 .
• Western images of China . 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1999, ISBN 0-19-590738-8 .
• China in transformation, 1900–1949 . Longman, London 1998, ISBN 0-582-31209-4 .
• Beijing opera . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1997, ISBN 0-19-587729-2 .
• China's minority cultures. Identities and integration since 1912 . St. Martin's Press, New York 1995, ISBN 0-582-80671-2 .
• China's minorities. Integration and modernization in the twentieth century . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1994, ISBN 0-19-585988-X .
• Chinese drama. A historical survey . New World Press, Beijing 1990, ISBN 7-80005-096-3 .
• Chinese society since Mao. Religion and family . Aquinas Library, Brisbane 1984, ISBN 0-9591223-1-1 .
• Chinese theater. From its origins to the present day . University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu 1983, ISBN 0-8248-0813-4 .
• Modern China. A chronology from 1842 to the present . Thames & Hudson, London 1982, ISBN 0-7167-1411-6 .
• The performing arts in contemporary China . Routledge & Kegan Paul, London 1981, ISBN 0-7100-0778-7 .
• The Chinese theater in modern times. From 1840 to the present day . Thames & Hudson, London 1975, ISBN 0-500-90002-7 .
• Amateur theater in China 1949–1966 . Australian National University Press, Canberra 1973.
• The rise of the Peking Opera, 1770-1870. Social aspects of the theater in Manchu China . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1972.
• The Uighur Empire (744-840) according to the T'ang dynastic histories . Center of Oriental Studies, Australian National University, Canberra 1968.
• China observed . Praeger, New York 1967 (with Neale Hunter).

as editor

• Ethnicity in Asia . Routledge-Curzon, New York 2003, ISBN 0-415-25817-0 .
• Eastern Asia. An introductory history . 3rd edition Longman, Melbourne 2000, ISBN 0-7339-0192-1 .
• Sinophiles and sinophobes. Western views of China . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2000, ISBN 0-19-591892-4 .
• China since 1978. Reform, modernization, and "socialism with Chinese characteristics" . 2nd edition Addison-Wesley Longman, Melbourne 1998, ISBN 0-312-10252-6 (together with Pradeep Taneja and Graham Young).
• Culture and society in the Asia-Pacific . Routledge, New York 1998, ISBN 0-415-17277-2 (with Richard Maidment).
• Dictionary of the politics of the People's Republic of China . Routledge, London 1998, ISBN 0-415-15450-2 (with Donald H. McMillen and Andrew Watson).
• Australia and China. Partners in Asia . Macmillan Education Australia, Melbourne 1996, ISBN 0-7329-4186-5 .
• East and Southeast Asia. A multidisciplinary survey . Lynne Rienner, Boulder Col. 1995, ISBN 1-55587-612-9 .
• Imperialism, colonialism and nationalism in East Asia. History through documents . Longman, Melbourne 1994, ISBN 0-582-80165-6 .
• Contemporary Vietnam. Perspectives from Australia . University of Wollongong Press, North Wollongong 1988, ISBN 0-947127-01-1 (with Robert Cribb and Allan Healy).
• Drama in the People's Republic of China . State University of New York Press, Albany, NY 1987, ISBN 0-88706-389-6 (with Constantine Tung).
• From fear to friendship. Australia's policies towards the People's Republic of China, 1966–1982 . University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia 1985, ISBN 0-7022-1738-7 (with Edmund S. Fung).
• Marxism in Asia . Croom Helm, London 1985, ISBN 0-7099-1745-7 (with Nick Knight).
• China. The impact of revolution; a survey of twentieth century China . Longman, Hawthorn 1976, ISBN 0-582-68669-5 .

Web links

• Emeritus Professor Colin Mackerras AO Griffith University.
• John Taylor: Chinaphile reflects on societal change ABC , March 20, 2005.