Gregory B. Lee

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Gregory B. Lee
利大英 (Lì Dàyīng)
SOAS, University of London
University of Chicago
University of Hong Kong
City University of Hong Kong
University of Lyon
Main interestsChinese and comparative literary and cultural studies

Gregory B. Lee (born 1955) is an academic, author, and broadcaster. Lee is Founding Professor of Chinese Studies at the

French Order of Academic Palms. In 2011, he was elected Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities.[4]

Academic career

Lee received his undergraduate degree in modern and classical Chinese at the

School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in 1979, and his PhD in Chinese poetry from the same institution in 1985.[5] He also studied political economy and Chinese literature at Peking University (1979–83) as a British Council Scholar, and held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (1985–86) at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences's Institute of Literature, whose then director was Liu Zaifu
.

Lee formerly taught in the United Kingdom at the

School of Oriental and African Studies (1987–1988), before occupying posts as an assistant professor in East Asian Languages and Civilization at the University of Chicago (1990–1994) and associate professor at the University of Hong Kong (1994–1998), where he taught comparative literature. A specialist in Chinese and comparative literary and cultural studies, his more recent work is in the realm of comparative cultural history, specifically in the fields of Chinese diaspora, transcultural studies, and intellectual decolonization. He joined the University of Lyon in 1998.[3][6]

Writings

Lee's dual-language biographical novel 第八位中國商人同消失咗嘅海員／The Eighth Chinese Merchant and the Disappeared Seamen was published in 2022 by Hong Kong's 手民出版社 Typesetter Press [1].

Lee's first book Dai Wangshu : The Life and Poetry of a Chinese Modernist,

Zephyr Press. His Un Spectre hante la Chine : Les fondements de la contestation actuelle was published in April 2012 (Tigre de Papier Archived 1 November 2020 at the Wayback Machine, 2009; 2011). Lee's China Imagined: From European Fantasy to Spectacular Power was published in 2018 by C. Hurst & Co.[8]

Other professional activities

Lee has also been a radio broadcaster on China and the Chinese diaspora. In 2005 he wrote and presented BBC Radio 3's Sunday Feature "Liver Birds and Laundrymen"[9] in which he revisited the story of Europe's oldest Chinatown, in Liverpool (UK), and interrogated dominant British perceptions of the Chinese. He has also translated a variety of Chinese works, including those of contemporary poet Duo Duo (Looking Out From Death Bloomsbury, 1989; The Boy Who Catches Wasps Zephyr, 2002),[10] Dai Wangshu, and Nobel laureate Gao Xingjian ("Fugitives", a controversial 1989 play). Duo Duo was awarded the 2010 World Literature Today's Neustadt International Prize for Literature.

Lee is the General Editor of the journal Transtext(s)s-Transcultures.[11]

References

  1. ^ "Research portal". Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  2. ^ "scanRBETA". scanRBETA. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Gregory Lee". 18 December 2017. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
  4. ^ "Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities". Retrieved 11 May 2019.
  5. ^ "SOAS Executive Board Agenda" (PDF). 29 November 2010. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
  6. ^ a b Wai, Isabella (1998–1999). "Scholar debunks myth of monolithic China : An interview with Gregory Lee". Road to East Asia. 3. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
  7. ^ "One Englishman's story of Chinese identity". Taipei Times. 7 August 2014.
  8. ^ "Financial Times". 17 December 2018. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
  9. ^ "Liver Birds and Laundrymen. Europe's Earliest Chinatown". BBC. 13 March 2005.
  10. ISBN 9781611493900
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  11. ^ "Open Edition Journals". Transtext(e)s Transcultures. Open Edition Journals. Retrieved 11 May 2019.

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