Prof Gregory Lee

Emeritus Professor

Researcher profile

Email

gbl1@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

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.

Selected publications

• De l’anticolonialisme à la décolonialité et l'Institut franco-chinois de Lyon

  Lee, G. B., 30 May 2025, Mediapart.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• De l’anticolonialisme à la décolonialité : le piège nationaliste

  Lee, G. B., 26 May 2025

  Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products

• Open access

  How the year 2025 changed writing recent Chinese (and world) history

  Lee, G. B., 14 Mar 2025, Mediapart.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• Open access

  Éditorial: Lire et écrire Hong Kong et sa diaspora

  Lee, G. B. & Wong, J., 4 Dec 2024, In: Transtext(e)s Transcultures 跨文本跨文化. 18, 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial

• Chinese poetry and translation: rights and wrongs edited by Maghiel van Crevel and Lucas Klein

  Lee, G. B., 9 Feb 2024, In: Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR) . 45, p. 318-323

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

• Les macronistes nous ressortent le lieu commun galvaudé de la "valeur travail"

  Lee, G. B., 23 Jun 2024, Online : Mediapart.

  Research output: Other contribution

• Open access

  序文: 寫讀全球香港

  Lee, G. B. & Wong, J., 30 Dec 2024, In: Transtext(e)s Transcultures 跨文本跨文化. 18, 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial

• 芒克朗读 《没有时间的时间 - 序》与 《四月》

  Lee, G. B. (Producer) & 芒克, M. K. (Performer), 29 Jan 2024

  Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products

• Open access

  A contextual introduction

  Lee, G. B., 30 Dec 2023, In: Transtext(e)s Transcultures 跨文本跨文化. 18, 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Cartooning China: Punch, Power, & Politics in the Victorian Era: by Amy Matthewson, London, Routledge, 2022, 188 pp., 77 illustrations, £130.00 (Hardback)/£38.99 (Paperback)/£39.09 (eBook), ISBN: 9780367460990

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

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

 

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