Professor Geremie R. Barmé

Present appointments

Australian Research Council, Federation Fellow, 2005 -,
Professor, Division of Pacific & Asian History,
Director, China Heritage Project,
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies,
The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200
Phone: 61-2-6125-3168; fax: 61-2-6125-5525
email: geremie.barme@anu.edu.au

Editor: East Asian History
Co-Editor: China Heritage Quaterly

• Main Research Interests
• Current Research Projects
• Websites
• Publications
• Academic Qualifications/Awards, etc

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Main research interests

• Issues of intellectual and cultural history in China from the late-Ming dynasty (15th century) to the present time. In particular Geremie is pursuing issues related to
• political and socio-cultural responses to globalization in the 1990s and the first decade of 2000
• the revival of economic and political liberalism in the public arena
• the Cultural Revolution in China.
• historicial biography and post-1949 Chinese cultural and intellectual history (resulting in the publications mentioned below) provides the basis for the major works on which Geremie will be engaged over the next three to five years. (see Current Research)

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Academic qualifications

PhD, ANU (1989)
Diploma, Liaoning University (1978)
BA/AS, ANU (1974)

Academic awards and distinctions

• The ANU J.G. Crawford Prize for doctoral dissertation in 1990.
• Max Crawford Award from the Academy of Humanities in Australia for contribution to the humanities, 1993-1994 (awarded in November 1994).
• Fellow of the Academy of the Humanities in Australia (1997-).
• The 57th George E. Morrison Lecture, 1996.
• Académie du Midi, member
• Long Bow Group, Boston, board member

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Current research projects

• Books
• Grants
• Film Work
• Web-Encylopaedia of 20th-century Chinese History

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Books

1. A book on historiography, the Third Way in China in the 1940s and 1990s (really continuing up to 2003 or so), and the issues of modernity in Chinese intellectual and political discourse. One recently-published book chapter ('The Revolution of Resistance') and a lengthy paper presented at a Chinese history conference in Hamburg in 1999 (included as the concluding chapter to Gloria Davies, ed., Voicing Concerns: Critical Inquiry and Chinese Intellectual Debate Rowman & Littlefield, 2001), along with my previously-published work on the public historian Dai Qing, form the basis of this project.



2. My continued interest in cultural history will focus on the rise of Beijing (Beiping) as the centre of modern Chinese national identity and political symbolism from the last years of the Manchu-Qing dynasty. I have already presented two papers on this subject, including 'Death and Life in Beijing', being given as a keynote address at the annual conference of the British Association of Chinese Studies at SOAS in London. Work on this project will, I hope, be a contribution to multidisciplinary school approaches to urbanisation in the region. I believe that my study of Beijing will provide a historical dimension to this research and be a case study for those engaged in debates on urbanisation.



3. This work will be combined with my illustrated cultural biography of the Yuanming Yuan, the garden palace from which the Manchu-Qing empire was ruled from 1720 to 1860, with the New York-based photographer Lois Conner. I have already published three papers related to this project (see below). The final work will consist of a study of the rise of the Manchu-Han hybrid culture over the past three hundred years that over the last century has become the basis for 'Chinese' and 'Han' national identity. Since 1998, I have worked with Lois Conner, a photographer and professor of photography at Yale University, to produce a photographic record of the remains of the gardens. That material was curated as an exhibition with images and text (written by myself) at the Sherman Gallery in Sydney in September 2001.



4. A multimedia web-based encyclopaedia of 20th-century Chinese history built using the Long Bow Archives in Boston. I am the academic director of this project which is being coordinated by Richard Gordon and Carma Hinton of the Long Bow Group.



5. ‘Making a spectacle of contestation’, a project co-authored with Gloria Davies of Monash University and funded by an ARC grant that investigates the cultures of intellectual contestation, media and celebrity in 20th-century and early 21st-century China.



6. Mountains and meaning in China. A long-term project to be undertaken with Lois Conner from 2004.

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Grants

As part of my work with the Boston-based Long Bow Group, a film and media organization specializing in work on twentieth-century China, I have been closely involved in making major grant applications to the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Luce Foundation, as well as to a number of private funds and foundations. These grants have led to the making of two major historical documentary films on China (produced in 1995 and 2003), related websites, and the preliminary development of the Long Bow multimedia web encyclopaedia of 20th-century China.

A three-year ARC grant was awarded to Dr Gloria Davies of Monash University and myself to work on a project entitled 'Spectacles of disagreement: A history of modern Chinese intellectual debates'. This project will be completed in 2004.

Film Work

Since 1997, I have developed, along with the film-directors Carma Hinton and Richard Gordon of the Long Bow Group in Boston, a major new documentary film project on China in the 1950s and 60s. This project for a two-hour documentary history of the Cultural Revolution received the support of leading international scholars in the field (including Jonathan Spence, Andrew Walder, Anita Chan, Elizabeth Perry and Gail Hershatter), and received a major grant from National Endowment of Humanities in Washington. Work on the actual production began in Boston in October 1999 and came to an end in February 2003 when the resulting film, Morning Sun, premièred at the Berlin International Film Festival.

In the major projects in which I have been involved I have been particularly interested in pursuing my work in 20th Century Chinese history and thought, and applying elements of this to the study of contemporary Chinese cultural and political events. Since 1990, this has led to my close involvement with the Long Bow Group in Boston. In particular, I was involved in the research for and writing of The Gate of Heavenly Peace, a three-hour historical documentary film directed by Richard Gordon and Carma Hinton which premièred at the New York Film Festival in October 1995, and which has subsequently been screened at many film festivals, and on various television networks (including PBS in the USA, the BBC in England, also in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Russia, etc). This collaborative project allowed me to work with a number of prominent US-based historians.

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Web-encyclopaedia of 20th-century Chinese History

Since the beginning of this year I have been the founding academic director of The Multi-media Encyclopedia of 20th Century China, a major website project based in Boston and intitially funded by the Luce Foundation. This innovative history-related project, which is still in its nascent stage, promises to have a direct impact on the teaching of Chinese history at tertiary level internationally.

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List of publications

A. Books and Monographs

1. China Candid: the people on the People's Republic, by Sang Ye, edited by G. R. Barmé with Miriam Lang, 2006,350pp.



2. An Artistic Exile, a life of Feng Zikai (1898-1975), Berkeley:University of California Press, 2002, 471 pp.



3. In the Red, contemporary Chinese culture, New York:Columbia University Press, 1999, 500pp.



4. Gong Xiaogong, a case of mistaken identity, Wellington:Asian Studies Institute, Victoria University, 1999, 21pp.



5. Shades of Mao: the Posthumous Career of the Great Leader, Armonk, New York:M.E. Sharpe, 1996, 300pp. (A shorter version of this work was published under the same title as the Fall 1995, vol.28, no.1, issue of Chinese Sociology and Anthropology, 104pp.)



6. On The Eve:China Symposium '89, Bolinas, California, 27-29 April, 1989, edited and annotated by Geremie R. Barmé, cyberpublication in 1996, see http://www.tsquare.tv



7. New Ghosts, Old Dreams:Chinese Rebel Voices, edited with Linda Jaivin, New York:Times Books, 1992, 500pp.



8. Seeds of Fire:Chinese Voices of Conscience, edited with John Minford, Hong Kong:Far Eastern Economic Review (1986); 2nd edition New York:Hill & Wang (1988), reissued with a new introduciton by Noonday Press (1989), 450pp.



9. Zixingche wenji, by Bai Jieming, Hong Kong:Cosmos Books, 1984 (A second volume of essays in Chinese), 183pp.



10. Xiyangjing xia, by Bai Jieming (G. Barmé), Hong Kong:Po Wen Books, 1981 (a collection of essays, film criticism and satire in Chinese), 206pp.



11. Lazy Dragon, Stories from the Ming Dynasty, translated by Gladys Yang and Yang Xianyi, edited by G. Barmé, Hong Kong:Joint Publications, 1981.



12. A China Traveler's Phrase Book, compiled by G. Barmé and B. Lee, New York:Eurasia Press, 1980, 157pp.




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Translated Books

13. Lost in the Crowd, by Yang Jiang, Melbourne:McPhee Gribble, 1989 (revised and expanded work based on A Cadre School Life, see below).



14. The Three Beatings of Tao Sanchun, or 'A Shrew Untamed', a traditional Peking Opera by Wu Zuguang, Shanghai:Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, 1988.



15. Random Thoughts, by Ba Jin, Hong Kong:Joint Publications, 1984.



16. Fragrant Weeds -- Chinese short stories once labelled as 'poisonous weeds', translated by G. Barmé and Bennett Lee, edited and with an introduction by W.J.F. Jenner, Hong Kong:Joint Publications, 1983.



17. A Cadre School Life: Six Chapters, by Yang Jiang, Hong Kong:Joint Publications, 1982.



18. The Wounded:Stories from the Cultural Revolution, 1977-78, selected and translated by G. Barmé and Bennett Lee, Hong Kong:Joint Publications, 1979.



19. China's New Democracy, by Qi Xin, edited and translated by G. Barmé and Bennett Lee, Hong Kong:Cosmos Books, 1979.



20. Woodblock Prints of War-time China, Hong Kong:Cosmos Books, 1978.



21. Deng Xiaoping:a political biography, by Chi Hsin, Hong Kong:Cosmos Books, 1978 (as a member of the Chi Hsin group I edited and translated this volume with Wanda Lee).



22. The Case of the Gang of Four, by Chi Hsin, Hong Kong:Cosmos Books, 1977 (Edited and translated most of this volume).

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B. Film

1. Morning Sun, (a two-hour documentary) directed and produced by Carma Hinton, Geremie R. Barmé and Richard Gordon; written by Barmé and Hinton. Boston: Long Bow Group, 2003.



2. The Gate of Heavenly Peace, (a three-hour documentary) dir. Richard Gordon and Carma Hinton, Boston: Long Bow Group, 1995. Co-author, associate director and senior academic advisor.

C. Websites

1. http://www.tsquare.tv



2. http://www.morningsun.org

D. Book Chapters

Introductory Essays



1. 'Borrowing the Landscape', in Lois Conner, China, New York:Calloway, 2000.



2. 'Between the Lines and Beyond the Text', introductory essay to Beyond the Headlines, edited by Lionel Jensen, Boulder:Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.



3. 'Cultural Cross-dressing', in Vivienne Tam, China Chic, New York:Reagan Books, 2000.



4. Introductory essay to Liu Xinwu, Black Walls and Other Stories, edited by Don J. Cohn, Hong Kong:Chinese University Press, 1990, i-vii.



5. Introduction to the OUP reprint of In Search of Old Peking, by L.C. Arlington and William Lewisohn, Hong Kong/Oxford:Oxford University Press, 1987, pp.v-xii


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6. Introduction to the OUP reprint of A Superficial Journey Through Tokyo and Peking, by Peter Quennell, Hong Kong/Oxford:Oxford University Press, 1986, pp.v-xiv.

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Chapters

1. 'Have We Been Noticed Yet?-intellectual contestation and the Chinese web’ (with Gloria Davies), in Chinese Intellectuals Between State and Market (Routledge Curzon Studies on China in Transition, 17), edited by Edward X. Gu and Merle Goldman (forthcoming January 2004).



2. Nineteen entries (14,000 words) in The Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture, edited by Edward Davis, London & New York: Routledge (forthcoming 2003).



3. ‘Engines of Revolution: Car Cultures in China’, in Autopia: Cars and Culture, edited by Peter Wollen and Joe Kerr, London: Reaktion Books, 2002, pp.177-90.



4. 'A Note on the Imperial Mountain Villa at Chengde’, East Asian History, no. 22 (December 2001), pp.11-16.



5. 'Time's Arrows: Imaginative Pasts and Nostalgic Futures', in Gloria Davies, ed., Voicing Concerns, contemporary Chinese critical inquiry, Boulder: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001, pp. 226-257.



6. ‘A Note on Translation’ (Gloria Davies and Barmé), in Voicing Concerns: contemporary Chinese critical inquiry, Gloria Davies, ed., Boulder: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001 pp. xi-xii.



7. 'Translation: In Search of a "Third Way": A Conversation Regarding "Liberalism" and the "New Left Wing" by Xu Jilin, Liu Qing, Luo Gang, and Xue Yi', in Voicing concerns: contemporary Chinese critical inquiry, Gloria Davies, ed., Boulder: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001, pp.199-226.



8. 'The Revolution of Resistance' in Social Change in Contemporary China:Conflict and Resistance, edited by Elizabeth Perry and Mark Selden, London:Routledge, 1999, pp.198- 220.



9. 'China:A State of Anxiety', in Anthony Milner and Mary Quilty, ed., Australia In Asia, Communities of Thought, Oxford University Press, 1996, pp.29-49.



10. 'To Screw Foreigners is Patriotic:China's Avant-Garde Nationalists', 25pp., in Chinese Nationalism, edited by Jonathan Unger, Armonk, NY:M.E. Sharpe, 1996; and published in The China Journal, July 1995, pp.209-234.



11. 'History for the Masses', a chapter in Jonathan Unger, ed., Using the Past to Serve the Present:Historiography and Politics in Contemporary China, New York:M.E. Sharpe, 1993, pp.260-86.



12. 'Export, Exploit, Expropriate:Artful Marketing from China, 1989-1993', in Johnson Chang, ed., New Art from China, 1989-93, Hong Kong:Hanart, 1993, pp.47-51. Reprinted in edited form in Mao Goes POP:China Post-1989, Nicholas Jose, ed., Sydney:Museum of Contemporary Art, 1993, pp.28-30; and in full in Third Text (London), no.25 (Winter 1993), pp.67-76. Also published in Chinese in a volume produced for the exhibition and again in the Taiwan monthly academic journal Dangdai (Contemporary).



13. 'Beijing Days, Beijing Nights', in Jonathan Unger (ed.), The Pro-Democracy Protests in China:Reports from the Provinces, New York:M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, 1991, pp.35-58.



14. 'Confession, Redemption and Death:Liu Xiaobo and the 1989 Protest Movement', in George Hicks (ed.), The Broken Mirror:China After Tiananmen,London:Longmans, 1990, 52-99.



15. 'An Afternoon in Beijing--September 1978', China in the Seventies:Australian Perspectives, edited by Pamela Hewitt and Stephen Fitzgerald, ANU:Contemporary China Paper No.15, 1980, pp.137-46.

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E. Papers/Articles/Essays

Academic Papers

1. 'Hedda Morrison's Jehol-a Photographic Journey: introductory essay', East Asian History, Vol. 22, December, 2001, pp. 11-16.



2. 'Spring Clamor and Autumnal Silence: Cultural Control in China', Current History, September 1998, vol.97 no.620, pp.257-262.



3. 'Trinket, a common property', Translation Quarterly, Hong Kong Translation Society, nos. 5 &6 (April 1997), Special Issue:Martial Arts Fiction in English Translation, pp.43-67.



4. 'The Garden of Perfect Brightness, a life in ruins', East Asian History, no.11, June 1996, pp.111-58.



5. 'Private Practice, Public Performance:The Cutlural Revelations of Dr Li', an essay on Dr Li Zhisui's autobiographical account of his career as Mao Zedong's physician. I was invited to write this essay by the editors of The China Journal along with Anne Thurston, the editor of Li's memoirs, and Lucien Pye, a leading expert on Mao. Published in The China Journal, no.35, January, 1996, pp.121-127.



6. 'Soft Porn, Packaged Dissent, and Nationalism', Current History, September 1994, pp.270- 275.



7. 'Culture at Large:Consuming T-shirts in Beijing', China Information, vol. VIII, nos.1/2, Summer/Autumn 1993, pp.1-44.



8. 'Video:Evasion, Education and Entertainment', China News Analysis, 1 February 1993 (no.1478), pp.4-5.



9. 'A Storm in a Rice Bowl: Fictional Chinese Politics', China Information, vol.7, no.2 (Autumn) 1992, pp.12-19.



10. 'Wang Shuo and Liumang ("hooligan") Culture', The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, no.28 (July 1992) pp.23-64.



11. 'The Greying of Chinese Culture', China Review, Kuan Hsin-chi & Maurice Brosseau (eds), Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1992, Chapter 13, pp.1-52.



12. 'The Trouble with Dai Qing', Index on Censorship, 21(8), September 1992, pp.15-19.



13. 'Using the Past to Save the Present: Dai Qing's Historiographical Dissent', East Asian History, no.1, 1991, pp.139-80.



14. 'An Iron Fist in a Velvet Prison: Literature in Post-June 1989 China', China News Analysis, no.1443 (15 September 1991), pp.1-9.



15. 'Travelling Heavy: the Intellectual Baggage of the Chinese Diaspora', Problems of Communism, no.40, January-April 1991, pp.94-112.



16. 'The Chinese Velvet Prison: Culture in the "New Age", 1976-1989', Issues & Studies, vol.25, no.8, August 1989, pp.54-79.



17. 'An Artist and His Epithet: Notes on Feng Zikai and the Manhua', Papers on Far Eastern History, no.39, March 1989, pp.17-43.



18. 'Do You Have to be a Modernist to be Modern?', introduction to the debate on Modernism in China, Renditions Special Issue: Chinese Literature Today, 1983, nos.19&20, Hong Kong: Chinese University, pp.44-8, with a translation of a People's Daily survey of the subject, pp.49-54.



19. 'Notes on Publishing in China 1976 to 1979', The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, July 1980, no.4, pp.167-74.



20. 'Chaotou wenxue -- China's New Literature', The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, July 1979, no.2, pp.137-48.



21. 'Flowers or More Weeds? Culture in China Since the Fall of the Gang of Four', The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, January 1979, no.1, pp.125-34.




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Review Essays

22. 'Qing Shadowland', The Australian's Review of Books, September 1999, pp.9-10.



23. 'The Great Con:Value-added Asia', The Australian's Review of Books, April 1998, pp.8-10.



24. 'A rose-coloured past', The Australian's Review of Books, November 1997, pp.10-12.



25. 'Koe naki tokoro ni kyorai o kiku: `Bunka daikakumei' go no chugoku bungaku, and Bungaku no jiritsu o rnotomete: Konjitsu no chugoku bungaku o yomu, by Takashima Toshio, The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, January 1984, no.11, pp.200-3.




Catalogue Essays

26. 'Totems that are poles apart', in Beyond the Future:The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, edited by Jennifer Webb, Brisbane:Queensland Art Gallery, 1999, pp.238-239. [ISBN 1 876 509 66 X] Reprinted in Beijing Scene, vol.6, issue 3, 29 October-4 November 1999.



27. 'Flying dragon in the sky, Draco volans est in coelo', Cai Guo Qiang Catalogue, Humblebæk, Denmark, March 1997, main catalogue essay of 7 pages (no pagination), 3000 words. Reprinted in Beijing Scene, March 1997.



28. 'Taiwan:China's Other', Contemporary Taiwan Art, Taipei/Sydney:Museum of Modern Art, 1995, pp.66-69.



29. 'Reformist Baroque:Liu Dahong and the Chinese Fin-de-Millenium', in Liu Dahong:Paintings 1986-9, Hong Kong:Schoeni Fine Oriental Art, 1992.



30. 'Arrière-Pensée on an Avant-Garde: The Stars in Retrospect', in The Stars: 10 Years, Hong Kong: Hanart 2 Gallery, 1989, pp.76-82.



31. 'Persistence de la tradition au "royaume des ombres". Quelques notes visant a contribuer a une approche nouvelle du cinéma chinois', translated by Françoise Derré, Le cinéma chinois, Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1985, pp.113-28.




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Essays

32. 'China: the Party has its way with history', Index on Censorship, no.7, 1991, pp.12-14.



33. 'Shi Hui:A Profile', Chinese Literature, August, 1985, pp.96-104.



34. 'Yin Guangzhong and the Gods of Cathay', Chinese Literature, Autumn 1985, pp.207-15.



35. 'A Vision of Old Beijing:Wang Daguan's 'The Capital in Late Winter'', Chinese Literature, Summer 1984, pp.127-34.




Cultural Comment

36. 'Helicon', Muse, no.193 (March 2000), p.25.



37. 'The East is Read:Writers Challenged', Australian Author, vol.31, no.2 (August 1999), pp.10-12, 15. (Australian Society of Authors)



38. 'Paper Tigers', Beijing Scene, volume 5, issue 25, 10-16 September 1999, pp.4-5.



39. 'Hong Kong the floating city', in 'Hong Kong Goes Back' Index on Censorship, No.1, January/ February 1997, vol.26, issue 174, pp.154-160.



40. 'Mb@Game!--A Chinese Screensaver', Art AsiaPacific, issue 15 (July 1997), pp.78-83.



41. 'The Great Firewall of China', with Sang Ye, in Wired, 5.06 (June 1997), pp.138-50, pp.174- 78.



42. 'The Fab Four and Friends Do China' (on stained glass windows in China and their origin), Object (Crafts Council of Australia, 1995:2, pp.20-25.



43. 'Archaeotainment:Fantasy at the Other End of History', Third Text, no.30, Spring 1995, pp.29-38.



44. 'Xu Bing:A Chinese Character', Australia Art Monthly, July 1993 (no. 61), pp.13-15.



45. 'Liu Dahong:Artist laureate of China's reform', Far Eastern Economic Review, 4 March 1993, p.60.



46. 'Red Noise', Hybrid (International Cross-Artform Bi-monthly), June-July 1992, p.42.



47. 'Culture In Exile', The Independent Monthly, February, 1990, pp.4-5.



48. 'Artists on a non-stop see-saw ride', Far Eastern Economic Review, 5 October 1989, pp.71-2.



49. 'Stars in their day', Far Eastern Economic Review, 26 January 1989, pp.39-40.



50. 'The Lazy Dragon:Chinese Culture in '88', 'China Survey', Financial Times (London), December 1988.



51. 'Critics now chip away at China's concrete eyesores', Far Eastern Economic Review, 17 November 1988, pp.54-6.



52. 'TV requiem for the myths of the Middle Kingdom', Far Eastern Economic Review, 1 September 1988, pp.40-3.



53. 'Grim reality behind the silver screen', on the historicity of Bertolucci's 'The Last Emperor', Spectrum, The Sydney Morning Herald, 19 December 1987.



54. 'Chinese Culture: Unity in Chaos', Blast (Canberra), no.3, 1987, pp.22-3.



55. 'Revolutionary opera arias sung to a new, disco beat', Far Eastern Economic Review, 5 February 1987, pp.36-8.



56. 'My Friend the Memory Hole--a comment on living with Deng Xiaoping's "antibourglib" campaign', Renditions, 1986, no.26, pp.5-6.



57. 'Bureaucrats and zealots stifle Chinese cinema', Far Eastern Economic Review, 13 March 1986, pp.40-1.



58. 'A Word for the Imposter--introducing the drama of Sha Yexin', Renditions Special Issue: Chinese Literature Today, 1983, nos.19&20, pp.319-32.



59. 'A Touch of the Absurd--introducing Gao Xingjian, and his play "The Bus-stop"', Renditions, 1983, nos.19&20, pp.373-7, with a translation of a section of Gao's play on pp.379-86.



60. 'Culture Clubbed:China Blames the West for "Cultural Pollution"', The National Times (Sydney), 13-19 January 1984, pp.12-15; Part II, 20-26 January 1984, p.17.



61. 'The Tragi-Comic Adventures of Ah Q', Asiaweek, 11 June 1982, p.39.




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Journalism

62. 'Zhongnanhai:Walled Heart of China's Kremlin', Time Magazine [Special:'China's Amazing Half-Century, 50 Places Where History Was Made'], 27 September 1999, pp.40-41.



63. 'Mao Zedong:The Profit Center', Asian Wall Street Journal, 26 December 1994.



64. 'The Censors Can't Beat the Market', Asian Wall Street Journal, 20 January 1994.



65. 'A Gentle Voice of Reason Pierces the Rhetoric', Human Rights Tribune (New York), vol.II, no.5 (November 1991), p.406.



66. 'Dragon with Two Heads', Independent Monthly, June 1991, p.30.



67. 'Filial impieties in China', Far Eastern Economic Review, 17 January 1991, p.35.



68. 'A foot in both camps', Far Eastern Economic Review, 23 August 1990, p.27.



69. 'From 'River' to 'Road'', Far Eastern Economic Review, 25 October 1990, p.32.



70. 'Zhao Ziyang, the Man and the Myth', The Asian Wall Street Journal, 1-2 June 1990.



71. 'Where is China Heading?', The Independent Monthly, May 1990, pp.36-7.



72. 'A day in the death of China', Far Eastern Economic Review, 9 November 1989, p.45.



73. 'Enemy of the people', Far Eastern Economic Review, 10 August 1989, pp.29-30.



74. 'Blood offering', Far Eastern Economic Review, 22 June 1989, pp.37-41.



75. 'Memory as the enemy of tyranny', Far Eastern Economic Review, 19 May 1988, pp.47-8.



76. 'Cultural commissars in the camera's eye', Far Eastern Economic Review, 10 March 1988, pp.42-6.



77. 'Political prisoners hidden in the new era', Far Eastern Economic Review, 14 January 1988, pp.41-2.



78. 'Letter of protest opens Chinese eyes', Far Eastern Economic Review, 2 April 1987.



79. 'The man who speaks too much, too often', Far Eastern Economic Review, 22 October 1987, pp.52-3.



80. 'Nouvelle communism', Far Eastern Economic Review, 26 November 1987, pp.54-6.




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Chinese Essays

81. 'Yijia ren fei yijia yan', introduction to Dai Qing, Wode sige fuqin, Hong Kong:Ming Pao,1995.



82. 'Zhongguo dalude "yazhimin wenhua"', Zhongguo shibao zhoukan (China Times Weekly), 1 December 1993.



83. 'Gaige Baluoke--Liu Dahong ji Zhongguode shijimo', Mingbao yuekan, 1992:11, pp.79-90.



84. 'Didang buzhude ganjue', Zhongguo shibao zhoukan, 8-14 March 1992, pp.12-13.



85. 'Yuyong wenhuade zhaohuan' (The Appeal of Cultural Apparatchiki), Kaifang zazhi, 1990:11, pp.87-88.



86. 'Fanji 'Heshang':Zhongxuanbude "Shijixing"' ('On the Road', the CPC Ministry of Propaganda's Risposte to 'River Elegy'), Jiushiniandai yuekan, 1990:10, pp.112-3.



87. 'Dalu wentan laozuode Baoding huiyi' (The Leftist Baoding Arts Conference), Jiushiniandai yuekan, 1990:8, pp.68-9.



88. 'Ji yu xiong:Hou Dejian he Dai Qingde yitong' (A Matter of Timing:The Cases of Hou Dejian and Dai Qing), Jiushiniandai yuekan, 1990:7, pp.40-1. (Reprinted in Hou Dejian, Huotouzi zhengzhuan, Taibei:Liangjing chuban qiye gongsi, 1990.)



89. 'Dai Qing huoshi ganyan' (On the Release of Dai Qing), Jiushiniandai yuekan, Hong Kong, 1990:6, pp.62-3.



90. 'Kuaizi yu rou' (Chopsticks and Meat), The Capital Morning Post (Shoudu zaobao), Taipei, 24 May 1990.



91. 'Aozhou "teshu guanxi" meimeng chuxing' (Australia's 'Special Relationship':the Morning After), Dangdai, 1989:8, pp.23-5.



92. 'Zai zijide yuandi jiexia shuoguo--du Yang Jiang Xizao' (Fruits of Her Own Garden--on Yang Jiang's Washing in Public), Dangdai (Taibei), 1989:7, pp.131-3.



93. 'Mo xiede huangshuo, jue yanbuzhu xie xiede shishi' (Lies Written in Ink Cannot Conceal a Truth Written in Blood), Dangdai, 1989:7, pp.98-9.



94. 'Yaogun fanshenle?' (Rock fanshen?), Jiushiniandai yuekan, 1988:11, pp.94-5



95. 'Xiang wentan rengchu zhadande pinglunjia' (An Iconoclastic Literary Critic), Jiushiniandai yuekan, 1988:10, pp.93-4.



96. 'Dianshi xiliepian "Heshang" jiqi qishi' (The tele-series 'River Elegy' and its Lessons), Jiushiniandai yuekan, 1988:9, pp.98-100.



97. 'Yuwai jiutan--jiezipian', in Jieyouji, a collection of articles on the theme in vino veritas edited by Wu Zuguang, Beijing:Zhongwai wenhua chuban gongsi, 1988, pp.317-21.



98. 'Ziji jiefang ziji, Fang Lizhi Aozhouxing' (Self-Liberation:Fang Lizhi in Australia), Zhongguo shibao (Taibei), 29 August 1988.



99. 'Dalu zuojiade duli pingge--yu Liu Xinwu shangque' (The Individual Critical Faculty of Mainland Chinese Writers--a Discussion with Liu Xinwu), Jiushiniandai yuekan, 1988:8, p.107.



100. 'Dui "Fan Lizhide tiaozhan" de buchong' (A Note on 'The Challenge of Fang Lizhi'), Jiushiniandai yuekan, 1988:7, p.113.



101. 'Weiji, quanwei, fenjiang--raorang jingniande dalu chengdiao zhenglun' (Crisis, the Powers-That-Be and Dividing the Spoils--a Debate Over Urban Sculpture That Won't Go Away), Jiushiniandai yuekan, 1988:5, pp.104-5.



102. 'Beijingde yangshalong' (The Foreign Salons of Beijing), Jiushiniandai yuekan, 1988:3, pp.94-5.



103. 'You "fanzi" dao "Haiziwang"' (From the Anti-Bourgelib Campaign to 'The King of Children'), Jiushiniandai yuekan, 1988:1, pp.94-5.



104. 'Chuji jieduande jizhong zhishi fenzi--tan Fang Lizhi, Liu Binyan, Wu Zuguang' (Intellectuals in the Primary Stage of Socialism--a discussion of Fang Lizhi, Liu Binyan and Wu Zuguang), Jiushiniandai yuekan, 1987:12, pp.81-3.



105. '"Pianzi" chuguole--Aozhou jutuan yanchu "Jiaru woshi zhende"' ('The Imposter' Leaves China--An Australian Production of 'If I Were Real'), Jiushiniandai yuekan, 1987:11, pp.108-9.



106. 'Shehui zhuyi guojiade "ruanjin wenhua"--du Halaciqide Hua di wei lao' (Culture Confined--On Reading Miklos Haraszti's The Velvet Prison), Jiushiniandai yuekan, 1987:10, pp.96-7.



107. 'Shangying jituande fanji--dalu dianyingjiede yichang zhengzhi douzheng' (The Shanghai Film Consortium Goes on the Offensive--a Political Struggle in Mainland Cinema), Jiushiniandai yuekan, 1987:9, pp.100-1.



108. 'Zai Aozhou kan Zhongguode "liu Ao re"' (Looking at China's 'Study in Australia Fad'), Jiushiniandai yuekan, 1987:8, pp.22-3.



109. 'Chen Kaige fang Ao geqian ji' (The Becalming of the Film Director Chen Kaige), Jiushiniandai yuekan, 1987:7, pp.19-20.



110. 'Aozhou A Q zouxiang shijie' (An Australian Ah Q Goes International), Jiushiniandai yuekan, 1987:6, pp.18-9.



111. 'Xie Jin:"Furong zhen" yu ruxue dianying' (The Director Xie Jin: 'Hibiscus Town' and Confucian Cinema), Jiushiniandai yuekan, 1987:5, pp.110-1.



112. 'Qizi, tongyangxi he Dayuebing--wei dishiyijie Xianggang dianyingjie zengyan' (Chess, Child Brides and The Grand Parade--On the Opening of the 11th Hong Kong International Film Festival), Jiushiniandai yuekan, 1987:4, pp.112-3.



113. 'Zhongguorende jiefang zai ziwo juexing' (The Liberation of the Chinese Lies in SelfAwareness--a Conversation with the Critic Liu Xiaobo), Jiushiniandai yuekan, 1987:3, pp.61-5.



114. '"Kuanrongsha" yu Bo Yang re' ('Murder by Indulgence' and the Ba Yang Fever), Jiushiniandai yuekan, 1987:1, pp.11-2.



115. 'Mianxiang shijiede dangdai dalu wenxue--Zhongguo Zuoxiede Shanghai guoji taolunhui' (Contemporary Mainland Chinese Literature Confronting the World--notes on the Shanghai International Literature Conference of the Chinese Writer's Association), Jiushiniandai yuekan, 1986:12, pp.82-5.



116. 'Zhongguo dalu "xinshiqi" de gexing sanwen' (The Casual Essay in the "New Period" of Mainland Chinese Literature), Jiushiniandai yuekan, 1986:11, pp.96-99.



117. 'Zhongguo wenyijiede "biansaire"' (The 'Frontier Fever' in Chinese Culture), Jiushiniandai yuekan, 1986:10, pp.96-7.



118. 'Yangbanxide zai jueqi' (The Revival of Revolutionary Peking Opera), Jiushiniandai yuekan, 1986:9, pp.144-5.



119. 'Huangdan chuanju Pan Jinlian de fengbo' (The Controversy Surrounding the Theatre of the Absurd Sichuan Opera 'Pan Jinlian'), Jiushiniandai yuekan, 1986:8, pp.92-4.



120. 'Zhongguo meishujie xinruide houshe' (An Outspoken New Voice for Chinese Art), Jiushiniandai yuekan, 1986:7, pp.92-3.



121. 'Dalu chuban Aoweierde 1984' (Orwell's 1984 Published in the Mainland), Jiushiniandai yuekan, 1986:6, p.13.



122. 'Mofang:raodao erxing' ('Rubik's Cube:The Detour', an introduction with text), Jiushiniandai yuekan, 1986:5, pp.100-2.



123. 'Mianying' (Surface Shadows), Bolanggu ji, Nanjing:Nanking Writers' Association, 1985, pp.190-3.



124. 'Riben zuidade shudian' (The Largest Bookstore in Japan), Reading (Dushu), Peking, 1981:8, pp.106-7. (Other essays published from 1979-1983 have been collected in two books, see above.)



125. 'Ding Ling manhua ershinian zaoji' (Ding Ling:Reflections on Twenty Years), Qishiniandai yuekan, August 1979, pp.90-2.

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F. Translations from Chinese

1. Sang Ye, 'Beam me up', Humanities Research, 2, 1999, 'Asia and Modernity', pp.71-78.



2. Sang Ye, 'Consuming Habits', Meanjin, vol.57, no.3 (1998:3), pp. 615-22.



3. Feng Mengbo, 'My Private Album' (from the CD-Rom of the same name), Grand Street 63 (Crossing the Line), vol.16,no.3, p.27.



4. Sang Ye, 'Unfair Competition--a Chinese athlete speaks', Heat, no.6, 1997-98, pp.123-138.



5. Five translations of interviews by Sang Ye used as catalogue entries in Evolution & Revolution:Chinese Dress 1700s-1990s, edited by Claire Roberts, Sydney:Powerhouse Museum, 1997:'A revolutionary dressing down', pp.44-45; 'Making foreign things serve China', pp.46-47; 'Patriotic rag wool', pp.47- 48; 'A pretty face', pp.49-50; and, 'Comrade lover', pp.50-51.



6. Sang Ye, 'Fringe-dwellers:Down and Out in the Yuan Ming Yuan Artists' Village', translated and introduced by Barmé, Art AsiaPacific, issue no.15 (July 1997), pp.74-77.



7. Sang Ye, 'Sino-CompuBug:an interview with one of Beijing Four Heavenly Kings of Hacking', translated and introduced by Barmé, Wired, July 1996, pp.82-89.



8. Four chapters in Sang Ye's The Year the Dragon Came, Linda Jaivin, ed., Brisbane:Queensland University Press, 1996.



9. Li Xianting, 'The Imprisoned Heart:Ideology in an age of consumption', Art and Asia Pacific, 'Art of the Chinese Diaspora' Special Issue, vol.1, no.2, 1994, pp.24-30.



10. Sang Ye, 'Exhibiting the Cultural Revolution', The Sydney Review, October 1992, p.10.



11. Dai Qing, 'My Imprisonment' (an excerpt), Index on Censorship, 21(8), September 1992, pp.20-27.



12. Guan Wei, 'Nesting--the Art of Idleness' (trans and edited by G. Barmé & Linda Jaivin) Island 48 (Spring 1991), pp.9-11.



13. Sang Ye, 'Are you Satisfied?' (trans and edited by G. Barmé & L. Jaivin) Independent Monthly, June 1991, pp.11-12.



14. Liu Xiaobo, 'The Inspiration of New York: Meditations of an Iconoclast', translated and edited by G. Barmé, Problems of Communism no.40 (January-April 1991), pp.113-18.



15. Lee Yee, 'Hong Kong Slide to Xu Jiatun Solution', The Asian Wall Street Journal, 31 May 1990 (reprinted in The Wall Street Journal, 4 June).



16. He Xin, 'A Word of Advice to the Politburo', translated, annotated and introduced by Barmé, The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, no.23, January 1990, pp.49-76.



17. Lee Yee, 'Fear and Loathing in Hong Kong', The Asian Wall Street Journal, 20 June 1989.



18. San Su (Gao Xiong), 'Hong Kong:A "Performance Artist's' Paradise", from Two Decades of Hong Kong Oddities, Renditions (Special Issue:Hong Kong), nos.29&30, 1988, pp.73-83.



19. Yau Ma Tei, '1997 Rhapsody--A Prophetic Documentary Film', Renditions (Special Issue:Hong Kong), nos.29-30, 1988, pp.346-53.



20. Lee Yee, 'Playing by Peking's Rules', Renditions (Special Issue:Hong Kong), nos.29-30, 1988, pp.316-19 (reprinted from The Asian Wall Street Journal, 11-12 July 1986).



21. Shen Rong, 'Snake and Ladders--Three Days in the Life of a Chinese Intellectual', a novella translated with Linda Jaivin, in Shen Rong, At Middle Age, Beijing:Panda Books, 1987, pp.119-236.



22. Shen Rong, 'Not Your Average Girl', Renditions (Special Issue:Women Writers), nos.27&28, Spring & Autumn 1987, pp.158-62.



23. Five translations of entries in Chinese Profiles, by Zhang Xinxin and Sang Ye, Beijing:Chinese Literature Press, 1986, pp.84-94; 261-8; 269-76; 277-85; 286-93; and one in Chinese Lives:An Oral History of Contemporary China, by Zhang Xinxin and Sang Ye, edited by W.J.F. Jenner and Delia Davin, Pantheon (New York) and Macmillan (London), 1987, pp.135-9.



24. Huang Yongyu, 'Selections from A Can of Worms', Renditions, 1986, no.26, pp.11- 21.



25. Wang Peigong, 'Urbling Winter', Renditions, 1986, no.25, 86-94.



26. Tao Jun, 'The Detour', Renditions, 1986, no.25, 95-100.



27. Liu Xinwu, 'Black Walls', Renditions, 1985, no.23, 39-46.



28. Su Shuyang, 'Loved Ones', Chinese Literature, Autumn 1985, pp.109-23.



29. Wu Zuguang, 'Four Essays by Wu Zuguang', Chinese Literature, Summer 1985, pp.64-83.



30. Shi Hui, 'There Was No Confucius Before Confucius', Chinese Literature, August, 1983, pp.105-12.

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F. Translation into Chinese

1. 'Suweiai shehuide yuyan he quanli--Gebaqiefu nengfou gaibian zhege zhidu?', a translation by Barmé and Yang Lian of 'Language & Power in Soviet Society, A Conversation between George Urban & Alain Besançon', Encounter, May & June 1987, Contemporary, 1989:8, pp.128-41 and 1989:9, pp.100-16.

G. Translation into Japanese

1. Hi no tane:Chugoku ryûshin no koe, by G. Barmé and J. Minford, translated by Karima Fumitoshi, et al, Tokyo:Gaifusha, 1989 (a translation of Seeds of Fire with additional material unique to this Japanese version).

Published Interviews

1. 'The Shadow Behind the Halo of June 4', ('Liusi' guanghuanhoude yinying), Contemporary (Dangdai), Taipei, 1990:9, pp.79-95.



2. 'The revolution that failed:why Tienanmen was wasted', interview article by Yvonne Preston, The Sydney Morning Herald, 30 January 1990.



3. 'Coming Out of the Absurd' (Huangdan daxi guolairen), an interview by Lin Hui-feng, Zhongshi wanbao (Taibei), 6 September 1988.



4. 'Scars in the Mist' (Menglongde shanghen), an interview by Wang Chih-cheng, Zhongguo shibao (Taibei), 13 October 1988.



5. 'An Australian Scholar's View of the Chinese Cultural Scene' (Ao guoli daxue Bai Jieming kan Zhongguo wentan), Shijie jingji daobao (World Economic Herald, Shanghai), 24 November 1986, p.15.

• Book reviews published in Asiaweek, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, Quadrant, Far Eastern Economic Review and The Spectator for the years 1983-90 have not been included in this list.

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