Geremie R. Barmé (born 1954) is an Australian

sinologist Sinology, also referred to as China studies, is a subfield of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on China. It is an academic discipline that focuses on the study of the Chinese civilizatio ...

and film-maker on modern and traditional China. He was formerly Director, Australian Centre on China in the World and Chair Professor of Chinese History at

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public university, public research university and member of the Group of Eight (Australian universities), Group of Eight, located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton, A ...

College of Asia and the Pacific in Canberra. His films include ''The Gate of Heavenly Peace'' (1995), which depicts the spring of 1989 in China leading up to the events of June Fourth, and ''Morning Sun'', on the

Cultural Revolution The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a Social movement, sociopolitical movement in the China, People's Republic of China (PRC). It was launched by Mao Zedong in 1966 and lasted until his de ...

. His book ''An Artistic Exile: A Life of

Feng Zikai Feng Zikai (; November 9, 1898 – September 15, 1975) was an influential Chinese painter, pioneering ''manhua'' () artist, essayist, and lay Buddhist of 20th-century China. Born just after the First Sino-Japanese War and dying just before the en ...

'' was awarded the Joseph Levenson Book Prize for Modern China, 2004. He was editor of the ANU based e-journal ''China Heritage Quarterly''from 2005 to 2012, and is the editor of ''China Heritage''. In 2016, he founded The Wairarapa Academy for New Sinology in collaboration with sinologist John Minford.

Education and career

Barmé took his B.A. Asian Studies from the

, 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

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, 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."Arif Dirli
Literary Identity/Cultural Identity: Being Chinese in the Contemporary World
MCLC Resource Center (accessed April 9, 2015).

Selected major publications

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New Sinology 后汉学/後漢學
''The China Story'' (ANU). A collection of texts and links on the New Sinology. {{DEFAULTSORT:Barme, Geremie Australian sinologists Academic staff of the Australian National University 1954 births Living people