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.

B.A. Hons (Durham); M.St., D.Phil. (Oxon)

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

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)

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

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.