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Geremie barme the future of u s china relations
Geremie Barmé (born 1954) is an Australian sinologist, author, and film-maker on modern and traditional China. He is Director, Australian Centre on China in the World and Chair Professor of Chinese History at Australian National University College of Asia and the Pacific in Canberra.
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- Geremie barme the future of u s china relations
- Discussion with david kelly geremie barme and chan koonchung at the 2010 acyd part 2
- Education and career
- New Sinology
- Selected major publications
- China in the world lecture geremie barm
- References
Barmé is known for his scholarship on modern Chinese cultural history, his writings as a public intellectual in newspapers and magazines, and his work in the documentary films. These include The Gate of Heavenly Peace (1995), which depicted the spring on 1989 in China leading up to the events of June Fourth, and Morning Sun, on the Cultural Revolution. He is known as a non-native scholar who can research and write Chinese at the highest level.
His book An Artistic Exile: A Life of Feng Zikai was awarded the Joseph Levenson Book Prize for Modern China, 2004. He is editor of ANU's journal, China Heritage Quarterly.
Discussion with david kelly geremie barme and chan koonchung at the 2010 acyd part 2
Education and career
Barmé took his B.A. Asian Studies from ANU, majoring in Chinese and Sanskrit, then studied at universities in the People's Republic of China (1974–77) and Japan (1980–83). When he first returned to Australia as a Lecturer in History, one of his first students was future Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, whose support was important in funding the Centre for China in the World. He edited the journal East Asian History from 1991 to 2007 In 2011, he gave the inaugural "China in the World" Invited Lecture at ANU, "Australia and China in the World: Whose Literacy?"
New Sinology
In an essay first published in 2005, Barmé called for a "New Sinology," which would be
descriptive of a "robust engagement with contemporary China" and indeed with the Sinophone world in all of its complexity, be it local, regional or global. It affirms a conversation and intermingling that also emphasizes strong scholastic underpinnings in both the classical and modern Chinese language and studies, at the same time as encouraging an ecumenical attitude in relation to a rich variety of approaches and disciplines, whether they be mainly empirical or more theoretically inflected. In seeking to emphasize innovation within Sinology by recourse to the word 'new', it is nonetheless evident that I continue to affirm the distinctiveness of Sinology as a mode of intellectual inquiry.The historian Arif Dirlik is among those who welcomed Barmé’s intervention as "an important reminder of the importance of language as the defining feature of the term."