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Barmé took his Bachelor of Arts Asian Studies from American National University, majoring in Chinese and Sanskrit, then studied at universities in the People"s Republic of China (1974-1977) and Japan (1980-1983).
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Geremie Barme
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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. 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
He is editor of American National University"s journal, China Heritage Quarterly. 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 American National University, "Australia and China in the World: Whose Literacy?" In an essay first published in 2005, Barmé called for a "," 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. lieutenant 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.".
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Joseph Levenson Book Prize
Joseph Levenson Book Prize is awarded each year in memory of Joseph R. Levenson by the Association for Asian Studies to two books, one whose main focus is on China before 1900 and the other for works on post-1900 China.Joseph Levenson Book Prize is awarded each year in memory of Joseph R. Levenson by the Association for Asian Studies to two books, one whose main focus is on China before 1900 and the other for works on post-1900 China.