Dr Mark Harrison is Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Tasmania. He is a Founding Fellow of the Australian Centre on China in the World at the Australian National University and was previously a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster in London.

He is the author of a range of publications on Taiwanese and Chinese politics, culture, and society. Some of his publication include Legitimacy, Meaning and Knowledge in the Making of Taiwanese Identity (2006), Art, violence and memory in Taiwan: Telling the story of the beautiful island, Thesis Eleven 146(1):3-23 (2018), and Rethinking Taiwan Policy: History, Politics, Ideology (2019) which was a special report for the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. His recent book Revolutionary Taiwan: Making Nationhood in a Changing World Order, written with Catherine Lila Chou, was published in 2024.