John Makeham, BA (Hons) (ANU), MA (ANU), PhD (ANU), FAHA

Professor, School of Culture, History & Language

Email: john.makeham@anu.edu.au

Biographical statement

John teaches Classical Chinese language courses and courses in Chinese thought and religion. He is happy to supervise students on a broad range of topics in modern and pre-modern Chinese intellectual history.

Research interests

John is a specialist in Chinese intellectual history with a particular interest in Confucian philosophy. He is a past President of the Australasian Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy and is editor of the monograph series, Modern Chinese Philosophy (Brill). He has also recently completed an edited volume on Neo-Confucian philosophy and an edited volume on the formation of Chinese philosophy as an academic discipline. Currently is preparing an annotated translation of Xiong Shili's Xin Weishi lun (New Treatise on Cognition-only), a seminal text in twentieth-century Chinese Buddhist and Confucian philosophy.