Mark Strange

Mark Strange is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Culture, History & Language at the Australian National University (ANU). He specializes in pre-modern Chinese intellectual history, particularly Northern Song (960-1127) political thought, historiography, and textual scholarship. His research focuses on seminal texts like Zi zhi tong jian and the political narratives of Chinese imperial history.

Education: B.A. Hons (Durham), M.St. and D.Phil. (Oxford). He has taught at Warwick, Oxford, and Cambridge before joining ANU in 2012.

Current projects include a monograph on Sima Guang’s Zi zhi tong jian, translations of the text, and studies on its reception in East Asia. His work bridges historical analysis with textual criticism, exploring how political ideas were encoded in historical writing.

Recent publications (2018-2019) examine Tang religious policy and cultural history of animals in China, while earlier works address military factionalism in the Song and Buddhist influences on Liang rulers. He co-led the Exegesis of the Awakening of Faith project (2015–2017), focusing on Buddhist doctrinal texts.

His research emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches, linking political philosophy with historical documentation. Supervision focuses on graduate students pursuing advanced study in pre-modern Chinese intellectual and political history.