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Dr Mark Harrison

Senior Lecturer in Chinese

Contact Details
Telephone: +61 3 6226 2345
Fax: +61 3 6226 7813
Location: Hobart Campus, Arts Building, 328A
Email: Mark.Harrison@utas.edu.au

Dr Mark Harrison is Senior Lecturer and Head of Chinese in the School of Asian Languages and Studies, teaching Chinese language and studies.


Career Summary

Following several years in China and Taiwan, he completed his PhD at Monash University, and from 2002 to 2008 worked as Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster in London, UK.


Research Interests

He is the author of "Legitimacy, Meaning and Knowledge in the Making of Taiwanese Identity", published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2006 and co- editor of "The Margins of Becoming: Identity and Culture in Taiwan (Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007). His research interests include questions of representation, identity and epistemology in the Chinese contexts. As well as on-going work on the news media representation of China, his current research project is entitled "Visions of the Future in the Chinese speaking World", which covers the representation of China's futures in architecture, Chinese sci-fi literature, Singapore and other sites of discourse.

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Mark Harrison