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Dr Geremie Barmé

Founding director of the Australian Centre on China in the World and Professor of Chinese History at ANU

Geremie R Barmé is an historian, cultural critic, filmmaker, translator and web-journal editor. He works on Chinese cultural and intellectual history from the early modern period (1600s) to the present. From 2006 to 2011, he held an Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship and, in 2010, he became the founding director of the Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW) at The Australian National University (http://ciw.anu.edu.au).

He is the editor of the e-journal China Heritage Quarterly (www.chinaheritagequarterly.org) and creator of The China Story Project (www.thechinastory.org). His most recent edited volume is China Story Yearbook 2013: Civilising China, with Jeremy Goldkorn, following on from China Story Yearbook 2012: Red Rising, Red Eclipse, Canberra: CIW, 2012 (online at: www.thechinastory.org) and his last monograph was The Forbidden City (London: Profile Books and Harvard University Press, 2008, reprinted 2012), and he editedAustralia and China: A Joint Report on the Bilateral Relationship, a collaborative project in English and Chinese by the Australian Centre on China in the World and The China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, Beijing, published jointly in February 2012 (see: http://ciw.anu.edu.au/joint_report/).

His previous work includes collections (Seeds of Fire; New Ghosts, Old Dreams; and, Shades of Mao), monographs (An Artistic Exile,awarded the Joseph Levenson Prize), documentary films (with the Long Bow Group in Boston: ‘The Gate of Heavenly Peace’; and, ‘Morning Sun’), web sites (www.tsquare.tv; www.morningsun.org), translations (China Candid, by Sang Ye), numerous Chinese essays and two collections. He has also written extensively on what he calls 'New Sinology', (see:http://www.thechinastory.org/about-the-china-story/new-sinology/).