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Biography
Mark Strange is a Sinologist with research interests in the intellectual history and the historiography of pre-modern China, especially between the third and eleventh centuries AD. His particular focus is the history of political thought and of philosophy. He has taught Chinese history and Literary Chinese language at the Universities of Warwick, Oxford, and Cambridge. He joined the Australian National University in 2012.
Qualifications
B.A. Hons (Durham); M.St., D.Phil. (Oxon)
Research interests
Medieval Chinese intellectual history (esp. eleventh-century political thought and philosophy)
Medieval Chinese political history
Chinese traditional historiography (esp. Zi zhi tong jian)
Textual criticism
Researcher's projects
A Comprehensive Mirror to Aid Orderly Rule (Zi zhi tong jian): a translation of juan 1-8, with historical and philological commentary
The political thought of Zi zhi tong jian: a study and critical translation of Sima Guang’s comments as historian
History and empire in eleventh-century China: a reading of Sima Guang's Zi zhi tong jian
‘Jie du Song Shen zong “Zi zhi tong jian xu”’ 解讀宋神宗”資治通鑑序“ [‘A Reading of Song Shen zong’s ‘Preface to Zi zhi tong jian’]
Studies of the reception history of Zi zhi tong jian in China, Japan, and Korea
with Esther S. Klein: selected translation of Liu Zhiji's Shi tong; edited volume on Liu Zhiji and medieval historiography
Book-length study of representations of Emperor Wu of Liang (r. 502-549)
Current student projects
Tony EDWARDS, Internal Alchemy in Transition: Wang Qihuo (1839-1917) and his disciples Wei Yao and Xu Songyao
KANG Xiruo, Legal thought in fourth-century China: a reading of Ge Hong's Bao pu zi
WANG Linfang, Chen Jingyuan (1024-1094) and his times
ZHU Yayun, Nanjing in late-Ming and early-Qing China
Past student projects
Previous PhD students:
SANG Yu, Reality and Function in Xiong Shili's thought (1920-37)
YANG Qin, Pictorial forms of canonical interpretation in Song China (960-1279)
Victor FONG, Law, subjecthood, and state control in Early Tang (618-755)
Other recently supervised research projects include: Chinese Buddhist translations of Kumarajiva from the perspective of language contact; representations of Wu shan in Tang poetry; Wang Pang's (1044-1076) commentary on Zhuang zi; accounts of sagehood in Yang Xiong's Fa yan; a critical translation of Suseongji by Im Je (1549-87); Yao Xie's (1805-1864) commentary on Hong lou meng; representations of Xinjiang in the work of Ji Yun (1724-1805).
I welcome proposals from students interested in researching any of the areas of medieval Chinese intellectual history, political history, or historiography that I list under my research interests, above. I particularly welcome topics on the eleventh century.
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Projects
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Exegesis of the Awakening of Faith
Makeham, J., Jorgensen, J., Powers, C. & Strange, M.
Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange
1/07/15 → 30/11/17
Project: Research
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Treatise on Awakening Mahāyāna Faith
Jorgensen, J., Lusthaus, D., Makeham, J. & Strange, M., 2019, 1st ed. New York, USA: Oxford University Press. 162 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Walking by Itself: The Singular History of the Chinese Cat
Barrett, T. H. & Strange, M., 2019, Animals Through Chinese History: Earliest Times to 1911. Roel Sterckx, Martina Siebert & Dagmar Schäfer (ed.). 1st ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 84-98Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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When Emperor Wu Met Bodhidharma: A Reading of Mid-Tang Religious Policy
Strange, M., 2018, In: Asia Major. 31, 1, p. 119-165Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Wine, Gods, and Morning Dew
Chen, J. & Strange, M., 2018, Prosperity: The China Story Yearbook 2017. Jane Golley and Linda Jaivin (ed.). 1st ed. Acton, Australia: ANU Press, p. 5-7Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Nan shi
Strange, M. & Hruby, J., 2015, Early Medieval Chinese Texts: A Bibliographic Guide. C Chennault, K Knapp, A Berkowitz & A Dien (ed.). 1st ed. Berkeley, CA, USA: University of California Press, p. 209-216ppResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary