Prof Gregory Lee

Professor of Chinese Studies

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 3664

Email

gbl1@st-andrews.ac.uk

Office

Room 303

Location

Buchanan

Office hours

Friday 10-12, or by appointment

 

Research areas

Professor Lee specialises in the culture and cultural history of China and its diaspora from the nineteenth-century imagining of China the nation-state to today. His areas of interest include collective memory, censorship, the technical/technological society, the Anthopocene, and the ideology and representation of work. He is particularly interested in the contribution premodern, pre-Chinese thought — as found in the Zhuangzi 莊子 — may make to the resolution of contemporary problems.

His current research project involves creating an archive, and writing a multi-volume history, of Chinese culture 1976-2025. Amanda Mantong Zhang, Research Fellow, works alongside him on this project.

He has supervised numerous doctoral students in the fields of Chinese Studies and Transcultural Studies.

PhD supervision

• Xuanru Li
• Runyuan Bai
• Zitao Zhao
• Zifeng Pan
• Alba Barrera

Selected publications

• Cartooning China: Punch, Power, & Politics in the Victorian Era, Amy Matthewson

  Lee, G. B., 26 Apr 2023, In: Global Intellectual History. p. 1-4 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

• Huang Zunxian 黃遵憲 1848 –1905

  Lee, G. B., 27 Apr 2023, Creators of Modern China: 100 Lives from Empire to Republic 1796-1912. Harrison-Hall, J. & Lovell, J. (eds.). London: Thames & Hudson, in collaboration with The British Museum

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

• Open access

  Perspective: Hong Kongers in Scotland

  Lee, G. B., 31 Mar 2023, 1 p. Migration Policy Scotland.

  Research output: Other contribution

• Open access

  The historian who foresaw (almost) everything about China: Arif Dirlik (1940-2017)

  Lee, G. B., 14 Mar 2023, Mediapart.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• Open access

  "Ai Weiwei: The Liberty of Doubt" at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, 12 Feb-19 June 2022

  Lee, G. B., 14 Feb 2022, Paris : Mediapart.

  Research output: Other contribution

• Open access

  "Ai Weiwei: la liberté du doute"– exposition à Cambridge, 12 février-19 Juin 2022

  Lee, G. B. & Lee, I., 15 Feb 2022, Paris : Mediapart.

  Research output: Other contribution

• Hong Kong : Avant-Propos/Introduction

  Lee, G. B., Jortay, C. (ed.), Gaffric, G. (ed.) & Bouchaud, J., 15 Sept 2022, Jentayu revue littéraire d'Asie: Hors-série Numéro 5. FRANCE: Éditions Jentayu, Vol. Hors-série Numéro 5. p. 5 10 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Tagore’s China, Yeats’ Orient

  Lee, G. B., 1 May 2022, Tagore and Yeats: A Postcolonial Re-envisioning. Ghosh, A. & Redwine, E. B. (eds.). Leiden: Brill, p. 107-123 17 p. (Cross/Cultures; vol. 217).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• 中国 Zhongguo, Chine. Qu’est-ce que la Chine et depuis quand existe-t-elle ?

  Lee, G. B., 14 Oct 2022, Mots de la Chine: Ruptures, émergences, peristances. Frangville, V., Villard, F. & Lauwaert, F. (eds.). Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, Rennes, p. 115-136 22 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• 第八位中國商人與消失嘅海員/The Eighth Chinese Merchant and the Disappeared Seamen

  Lee, G. B., Huang, Y. (Translator), Poon, P. (ed.), Liang, H. (ed.), Lee, G. B. (ed.) & Tam, E. Y., 1 Jul 2022, Hong Kong: 手民出版社 Typesetter Publishing. 212 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

 

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