Dr Colin Jeffcott
Faculty of Asian Studies, The Australian National University
Visiting Fellow, Centre for Asian Societies and Histories, |
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Dr Colin Jeffcott [BA(NZ); MA(Oxford); PhD(ANU); Senior Lecturer with the Centre for Asian Societies and Histories ] specialises in the social and economic history of China (especially, during the Song Dynasty period), in Neo-Confucian philosophical history, and, in the comparative social history of Japan and China.
He teaches Classical Chinese and the courses 'Chinese Civilisation in the Song Period', 'Confucianism in Question: Orthodoxy and Enlightenment', 'Readings in Modern Chinese History', and 'Society and Ideology in China and Japan'.
His publications include 'Peng Shaosheng', in (ed. B. Penny) Biography and Religious Traditions in Asia (Canberra, 1995).