Geremie Barmé

Geremie R. Barmé (born 1954) is an Australian sinologist and film-maker on modern and traditional China. He was formerly 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.

His films include ''The Gate of Heavenly Peace'' (1995), which depicts the spring of 1989 in China leading up to the events of June Fourth, and ''Morning Sun'', on the Cultural Revolution.

His book ''An Artistic Exile: A Life of Feng Zikai'' was awarded the Joseph Levenson Book Prize for Modern China, 2004. He was editor of the ANU based e-journal ''China Heritage Quarterly''from 2005 to 2012, and is the editor of ''China Heritage''. In 2016, he founded The Wairarapa Academy for New Sinology in collaboration with sinologist John Minford. Provided by Wikipedia