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Birds, Nations and Empires

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"A very, very old tradition of associations between political power, particularly male political power, and hunting birds that ran through the whole of northern Eurasia, from Japan all the way across to Ireland." - Dr Lewis Mayo

Dr Lewis Mayo

Dr Lewis Mayo is Lecturer of Chinese Studies at Asia Institute. Lewis is a specialist in the history of the Chinese Inner Asian borderlands. His latest research involves the field of sensory history – the study of how sight, sound, taste, touch, smell and the broader category of “feel” operate in history.

Lewis is part of a large group of Australian scholars interested in the history of the Chinese Inner Asian borderlands, which includes people working on Mongolia, on the history of Chinese-Tibetan relations, on Chinese Islam and on the interface between China and the Iranian and Turkic worlds, and on the Manchurian / Korean border area.

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USEFUL LINKS

Publications

  • “The social logic of disease in Guiyijun Dunhuang” Inner Asia (Cambridge, England) 7, no.1 (2005): 47-63. ISSN: 1464-8172.
  • “Illness, threat and systems of authority in Dunhuang” Inner Asia (Cambridge, England) 7, no.1 (2005): 5-46. ISSN: 1464-8172.
  • “Heavenly creatures?” New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 5, 2 (December, 2003): 155-165. ISSN 1174-8915.
  • “Birds and the hand of power: a political geography of avian life in the Gansu corridor, ninth to tenth centuries” East Asian History (Canberra) no.24 (Dec 2002): 1-66. ISSN: 1036-6008.

Dr Lewis Mayo's web page

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CREDITS

Host: Sian Prior
Producers: Kelvin Param, Eric Van Bemmel and Sian Prior
Audio Engineer: Craig McArthur
Theme Music performed by Sergio Ercole. Mr Ercole is represented by the Musicians' Agency, Faculty of Music
Voiceover: Paul Richiardi

Series Creators: Eric van Bemmel and Kelvin Param

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