Mark Edward Lewis (born September 25, 1954) is an American sinologist and historian of ancient China.

Life and career

Lewis was born on September 25, 1954. He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and studied Chinese at the International Chinese Language Program (ICLP). His dissertation, entitled "The Imperial Transformation of Violence in Ancient China," was written under the Chinese-American historian Ho Ping-ti. He was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard University Society of Fellows. Since 2002 he has been Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in Chinese Culture at Stanford University. Previously he was a Reader at the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Cambridge. He was a Humboldt Research Award Fellow for one year at the University of Muenster. He created the Chinese Texts course, which is intended to teach students how to read Classical Chinese philosophy and history. The course uses texts from the Warring States and Early Han period, provides detailed analysis of the passages and how the translation was reached, and explains the uses of parallelism and rhythmic patterns in Classical Chinese.

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