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 forfatter 
* *China'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 utgiver 
* *Ethnicity 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.