Writer, academic, broadcaster
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How did China become China? And where is it leading us? We talk as if it had always existed: eternal China with its 5,000 years of uninterrupted history. But the name ‘China’ was first used by sixteenth-century Europeans, and its Chinese equivalent, Zhongguo, only gained currency in the mid-1800s.
China Imagined is a thoughtful exploration of the idea of China, from the naming and mapping of its territory and peoples to the creation and rise of the modern nation-state. China’s early history describes a multilingual space, ruled by a homogeneous elite with its own minority culture—a far cry from Maoism’s national mass culture, or Xi Jinping’s state-controlled digital society today.
In this book I trace this complex, diverse entity’s evolution since the Opium Wars into a China made in ‘our’ image. Today, it is a great power integral to the global system, whether it comes to climate change, security or inequality. Given this rapid convergence with the West, Xi’s China holds up a mirror to our own nations. Trump’s America, Putin’s Russia and post-Brexit Europe all betray echoes of ’the Chinese Dream’.
‘This richly provocative text, written with verve and urgency, has something to say to all scholars of China, past and present. Its broad reach and moral grasp enable penetrating questions about exactly what it is we think we are studying when we study China.’
Craig Clunas, Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, University of Oxford, and author of Art in China
‘If there’s one word to describe Gregory Lee’s book, it’s iconoclastic. Bristling with ideas and insights leavened by his vast knowledge and understanding of ‘things Chinese’, this sweeping account lays the ground for a new reading of both China and the Western imagination of it.’
Michael Dutton, Professor of Politics, Goldsmiths University of London and author of Beijing Time
‘An erudite and trenchant analysis of a political, cultural, social, ethnic, and linguistic world that has taken many shapes under several different historical pressures. Each chapter contains a wealth of information, presented clearly and vividly. One could not wish for a better guide and interpreter than Gregory Lee.’
David Palumbo-Liu, Professor of Comparative Literature, Stanford University
How did China become China? And where is it leading us? We talk as if it had always existed: eternal China with its 5,000 years of uninterrupted history. But the name ‘China’ was first used by sixteenth-century Europeans, and its Chinese equivalent, Zhongguo, only gained currency in the mid-1800s.
China Imagined is a thoughtful exploration of the idea of China, from the naming and mapping of its territory and peoples to the creation and rise of the modern nation-state. China’s early history describes a multilingual space, ruled by a homogeneous elite with its own minority culture—a far cry from Maoism’s national mass culture, or Xi Jinping’s state-controlled digital society today.
In this book I trace this complex, diverse entity’s evolution since the Opium Wars into a China made in ‘our’ image. Today, it is a great power integral to the global system, whether it comes to climate change, security or inequality. Given this rapid convergence with the West, Xi’s China holds up a mirror to our own nations. Trump’s America, Putin’s Russia and post-Brexit Europe all betray echoes of ’the Chinese Dream’.
‘This richly provocative text, written with verve and urgency, has something to say to all scholars of China, past and present. Its broad reach and moral grasp enable penetrating questions about exactly what it is we think we are studying when we study China.’
Craig Clunas, Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, University of Oxford, and author of Art in China
‘If there’s one word to describe Gregory Lee’s book, it’s iconoclastic. Bristling with ideas and insights leavened by his vast knowledge and understanding of ‘things Chinese’, this sweeping account lays the ground for a new reading of both China and the Western imagination of it.’
Michael Dutton, Professor of Politics, Goldsmiths University of London and author of Beijing Time
‘An erudite and trenchant analysis of a political, cultural, social, ethnic, and linguistic world that has taken many shapes under several different historical pressures. Each chapter contains a wealth of information, presented clearly and vividly. One could not wish for a better guide and interpreter than Gregory Lee.’
David Palumbo-Liu, Professor of Comparative Literature, Stanford University
Gregory B. Lee 利大英
Littérature et culture, histoire culturelle, la sinité, le postcolonial, les cultures "mineures" et en marge
Literature and culture, cultural history, "Chineseness", postcolonial studies, "minor" and marginal cultures
CV English
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- Professeur des Universités, Études chinoises, pré chinoises, et transculturelles, Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3
- Directeur-Fondateur de l'équipe de recherche Institut d'Etudes Transtextuelles et Tranculturelles (IETT) (EA4186)
- Directeur de la revue trilingue Transtext(e)s-Transcultures 跨文本跨文化
- Fellow de la Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities (FHKAH)
Littérature et culture, histoire culturelle, la sinité, le postcolonial, les cultures "mineures" et en marge
- Professor of Chinese, Pre-Chinese and Transcultural Studies, Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3
- Founding Director, Institute of Transtextual and Transcultural Studies (IETT) (EA4186)
- Editor, Transtext(e)s-Transcultures 跨文本跨文化
- Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities (FHKAH)
Literature and culture, cultural history, "Chineseness", postcolonial studies, "minor" and marginal cultures
CV English
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