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Personal profile
Biography
After graduating in Asian Studies from the ANU (majoring in Chinese and Sanskrit), I studied at universities in the People's Republic of China (1974-77) and Japan (1980-83), with periods working as a journalist, freelance writer and translator in Hong Kong and China. My research work in Chinese culture and intellectual history has been interspersed with film, web site and writing projects in the United States, China and Hong Kong.
Career highlights
Premiere of The Gate of Heavenly Peace at the New York Film Festival in 1995; premiere of Morning Sun at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2003; being awarded the Joseph Levenson Prize for Modern China, 2004; work with the New York photographer Lois Conner on the Garden of Perfect Brightness (Yuanming Yuan) in Beijing; editing China Heritage Quarterly (www.chinaheritagequarterly.org); work on the sacred geography of China with the oral historian Sang Ye; research funded by an ARC Federation Fellowship (2006-10) on Beijing and China in the Olympic era; and contributing to the establishment at ANU of the Australian Centre on China in the World in 2010.
Research interests
Historiography in 21st-century China; 20th century Chinese intellectual and cultural history; contemporary Chinese cultural and intellectual debates; Ming-Qing literature and aesthetics; Cultural Revolution history (1950s-70s) and Beijing, its history and reconstruction.
Qualifications
Expertise Areas
- Architectural Design
- Arts and Cultural Policy
- Urban Sociology and Community Studies
- Studies of Asian Society
- Art Theory
- Film and Television
- Performance and Installation Art
- Multicultural, Intercultural and Cross-cultural Studies
- HISTORICAL STUDIES
- Asian History
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Projects
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Manchu Rivers and Mountains: rediscovering the Bannerman cultural world of nineteenth-century China and its modern heritage
Barme, G. & Minford, J.
Australian Research Council (ARC)
1/01/09 → 31/12/17
Project: Research
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Chinese Studies Online
Minford, J. & Barme, G.
Chinese University of Hong Kong, The
31/03/08 → 31/12/11
Project: Research
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Reconfiguring ideology: embodying China's new concepts of heritage in commemorative rituals
Australian Research Council (ARC)
1/01/08 → 31/12/13
Project: Research
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Beijing: China's Heritage and the City as Spectacle
Australian Research Council (ARC)
10/12/05 → 9/12/10
Project: Research
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China Story Yearbook 2014: Shared Destiny
Barme, G., Jaivin, L. & Goldkorn, J., 2015, 1st ed. Canberra, Australia: ANU Press. 351 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Beijing: Contemporary and Imperial
Conner, L. & Barme, G., 2014, Beijing: Contemporary and Imperial. 1st ed. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, p. 157Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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A Clash of Civilisations
Barme, G., 2013, China Story Yearbook 2013: Civilising China. Geremie R Barme & Jeremy Goldkorn (ed.). 1st ed. Australian National University: Australian Centre on China in the World - Australian National University, p. 422-433Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Engineering Chinese Civilisation
Barme, G., 2013, China Story Yearbook 2013: Civilising China. Geremie R Barme & Jeremy Goldkorn (ed.). 1st ed. Australian National University: Australian Centre on China in the World - Australian National University, p. i-xxixResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Reviews: Speaking to History: The Story of King Goujian in Twentieth-Century China by Paul Cohen
Barme, G., 2011, In: Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. 71, 2, p. 351-364Research output: Contribution to journal › Article