Colin Mackerras

Colin Mackerras (valgt kinesisk navn: 马克林; pinyin: Mǎ Kèlín; født 26. august 1939 i Sydney i Australia) er en australsk sinolog og spesialist på kinesisk kultur, fremfor alt drama, kinesiske etniske minoriteter, australsk-kinesiske relasjoner og kinabilder i Vesten.
Mackerras fikk en katolsk oppdragelse. Han studerte ved University of Cambridge og kom i 1964 med sin hustru første gang til Kina og underviste til 1966 ved fremmedspråkinstituttet (nå Beijings fremmedspråksuniversitet) i Beijing. De opplevde der begynnelsen av kulturrevolusjonen i byen.
I 1970 fikk han sin ph.d. i avdelingen for Det fjerne østens historie ved Australian National University. Mackerras er professor emeritus ved Griffith University i Brisbane i Queensland.
Dirigenten Charles Mackerras er en av hans brødre.


== Verker i utvalg ==
som forfatterChina's ethnic minorities and globalisation. 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. 2. utg. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1999, ISBN 0-19-590738-8.
China in transformation, 1900–1949. Longman, London 1998, ISBN 0-582-31209-4.
Peking 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, Peking 1990, ISBN 7-80005-096-3.
Chinese society since Mao. Religion and family. Aquinas Library, Brisbane 1984, ISBN 0-9591-2231-1.
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 theatre in modern times. From 1840 to the present day. Thames & Hudson, London 1975, ISBN 0-500-90002-7.
Amateur theatre in China 1949–1966. Australian National University Press, Canberra 1973.
The rise of the Peking Opera, 1770–1870. Social aspects of the theatre in Manchu China. Clarendon Press, Oxfordm 1972.
The Uighur Empire (744–840) according to the T'ang dynastic histories. Centre of Oriental Studies, Australian National University, Canberra 1968.
China observed. Praeger, New York 1967 (zusammen mit Neale Hunter).som utgiverEthnicity in Asia. Routledge-Curzon, New York 2003, ISBN 0-415-25817-0.
Eastern Asia. An introductory history. 3. utg. 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, modernisation, and „socialism with Chinese characteristics“. 2. utg. Addison Wesley Longman, Melbourne 1998, ISBN 0-312-10252-6 (sammen med Pradeep Taneja og Graham Young).
Culture and society in the Asia-Pacific. Routledge, New York 1998, ISBN 0-415-17277-2 (sammen med Richard Maidment).
Dictionary of the politics of the People's Republic of China. Routledge, London 1998, ISBN 0-415-15450-2 (ammen med Donald H. McMillen og 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, BoulderCol. 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 (sammen med Robert Cribb og Allan Healy).
Drama in the People's Republic of China. State University of New York Press, Albany, N.Y. 1987, ISBN 0-88706-389-6 (sammen med 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 (sammen med Edmund S. Fung).
Marxism in Asia. Croom Helm, London 1985, ISBN 0-7099-1745-7 (sammen med Nick Knight).
China. The impact of revolution; a survey of twentieth century China. Longman, Hawthorn 1976, ISBN 0-582-68669-5.


== Referanser ==


== Eksterne lenker ==
Emeritus Professor Colin Mackerras AO Griffith University.
John Taylor: Chinaphile reflects on societal change ABC, 20. mars 2005.