China in the world - Professor Geremie R Barmé

15 July 2011

Professor Geremie R Barmé

Professor Geremie Barme gives the Inaugural CIW Annual Lecture, Australia and China in the World: whose literacy? This video was recorded at The Australian National University on 15 July 2011.
This lecture seeks to address anxieties over 'China Literacy' in an age of Chinese economic ebullience, historical revival and national aspiration. In doing so it recalls some of the concerns of founding figures of Chinese Studies at The Australian National University, while advancing ideas related to the Australian Centre on China in the World, which was established in 2010.

Broad Topics: Asia and the Pacific

Sub-topics: Humanities

Areas: ANU College of Asia and the Pacific

Geremie R Barmé is an historian, cultural critic, filmmaker, translator and web-journal editor who works on Chinese cultural and intellectual history from the early modern period (1600s) to the present. He is a research professor and Australian Research Council Federation Fellow in the ANU College of Asia & the Pacific, The Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, where he also edits the online e-journal China Heritage Quarterly. He is presently working with the oral historian Sang Ye on a book entitled Inside the Rings of Beijing: China's Global Aura, a monograph related to The Dream of the Red Chamber and Qing history in modern China, and a study of the Garden of Perfect Brightness (Yuánmíng Yuán). His latest book is The Forbidden City (London: Profile Books and Harvard University Press, 2008). He is the Director of the Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW), ANU.