Mark Edward Lewis
| Mark Edward Lewis | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 25, 1954 |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Chinese history |
| Institutions |
Cambridge University Stanford University |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago |
| Doctoral advisor | Ho Ping-ti |
| Notable students | Roel Sterckx |
Mark Edward Lewis (born September 25, 1954) is an American sinologist and historian of ancient China.
Mark Edward Lewis was born on September 25, 1954. He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and studied Chinese at the International Chinese Language Program (ICLP). His dissertation, entitled “The Imperial Transformation of Violence in Ancient China,”was written under the Chinese-American historian Ho Ping-ti. He was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard University Society of Fellows.
Since 2002 he has been Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in Chinese Culture at Stanford University. Previously he was a Reader at the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Cambridge.
He was a Humboldt Research Award Fellow for one year at the University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany.
He has created an online course for learning classical Chinese and reading early Chinese philosophers. It is free and open to anyone.
China’s Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.
China Between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.
The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007. Awarded the Prix Stanislas Julien by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres of the Institut de France, 2009.
The Flood Myths of Early China. State University of New York Press, 2006.
The Construction of Space in Early China. State University of New York Press, 2006.
Writing and Authority in Early China. State University of New York Press, 1999. Awarded the Prix Budget by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres of the Institut de France, 2002.
Sanctioned Violence in Early China. State University of New York Press, 1990.
“Early Imperial China, from the Qin and Han through the Tang.” In Fiscal Regimes and the Political Economy of Premodern States. Ed. Andrew Monson and Walter Scheidel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
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