Colin Mackerras

Colin Patrick Mackerras AO FAHA (Chinese: 马克林; pinyin: Mǎ Kèlín; born 26 August 1939 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian sinologist, Emeritus Professor at Griffith University, and specialist in Chinese culture.

In 1964 he went with his wife, Alyce Mackerras, for the first time to China, where their first son was born.

Since 2004 he has been Professor Emeritus at the Department of International Business and Asian Studies (Griffith University).

[citation needed] One recent scholar, Liu Siyuan, said that Mackerras' scholarship on theatre in China made him a founder of the field and successor to A.C. Scott, and praised as "an historian whose extensive scholarship on Chinese theatre forms part of his wide-ranging publications on Chinese and Asian history."

Liu went on to say that Mackerras is "rightly hailed as rivaling some of the most outstanding Chinese and Japanese scholars in the past century.