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Prof. Colin Mackerras |
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Professor Emeritus Colin Mackerras worked at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia, from 1974 to his retirement in 2004. However, he remains active in research, writing and editing. He has visited China numerous times for research and teaching. His many research areas include Chinese modern history, theatre, ethnic minorities, past and present, Western images of China and Australia-China relations, and he has written widely on all of these. His books include China’s Minorities: Integration and Modernization in the Twentieth Century, Oxford University Press, Hong Kong, 1994, China’s Minority Cultures: Identities and Integration Since 1912, Longman Australia, Melbourne, St Martin’s Press, New York, 1995 and China’s Ethnic Minorities and Globalisation, RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. He has also edited Ethnicity in Asia, Routledge, 2003; (with Michael Clarke), China, Xinjiang and Central Asia, Routledge, 2009; and the four-volumed Ethnic Minorities in Modern China, Critical Concepts in Asian Studies, Routledge, 2011. From 2000 to 2007 he was the (founding) editor-in-chief of the scholarly Taylor & Francis journal Asian Ethnicity. Among the ethnic minorities the one on which he has written most is the Uygurs, including The Uighur Empire According to the T’ang Dynastic Histories, A Study in Sino-Uighur Relations 744–840, Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1972, University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, 1973, and several major articles on the Uighurs of the past and in contemporary times.
He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Humanities of Australia, and has received several major honours, including appointment as Officer in the Order of Australia, 2007, Centenary Medal, 2003, and Australia-China Council Award for ‘outstanding contributions and achievements by individuals from Australia and China’ in the area of culture in Australia-China relations, 1999.