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Dr Lewis Mayo

Professional Address

Asia Institute
The University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010, Australia

Tel: +61 3 8344 8907
Fax: +61 3 9349 4870
Email: lmayo@unimelb.edu.au

Degrees, Qualifications

2000	Ph.D., Australian National University, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
1991	M.A., University of Hawaii, Hawaii, U.S.A.
1984	B.A., University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Career, Principal Offices, Principal Positions Held

2000-

Senior Tutor, Asia Institute, Melbourne University

Research Interests

History of Northwest China and Central Asia, 7th to 21st centuries. (including history of Sino-Turkic and Sino-Tibetan interactions)
Social history of plants and animals
Cultural politics of the past in China, 19th to 21st centuries
Social, cultural and political history of China, 600-1300
Chinese legal history, 7th to 13th centuries
History of marriage in China, 7th to 13th centuries
Colonial rule in China and Central Asia

Principal Publications

Sole-authored articles

"Images of Feudal‚ Marriage in Recent Chinese Art Cinema" in Mabel Lee and A.D. Syrokomla-Stefanowska (eds), The Modernisation of the Chinese Past, Sydney: Wild Peony, 1993.
Forthcoming. "The Names of the Hundred Birds" in East Asian History.