Professor Gregory Lee specialises in the culture and cultural history of China and its diaspora from the nineteenth-century imagining of China as the nation-state to today. His areas of interest include collective memory, censorship, the technical/technological society, the Anthropocene, 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.
Professor Lee has supervised numerous doctoral students in the fields of Chinese Studies and Transcultural Studies. His current research project involves creating an archive and writing a multi-volume history of Chinese culture, 1976-2025. Dr Amanda Mantong Zhang, Research Fellow of Chinese Studies, works alongside him on this project at St Andrews.
Lee, Gregory B. ” ‘Ai Weiwei: The Liberty of Doubt’ at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, 12 February to 19 June 2022.” Le Club de Mediapart, 14 February 2022. https://blogs.mediapart.fr/gblee/blog/140222/ai-weiwei-liberty-doubt-kettles-yard-cambridge-12-feb-19-june-2022.
Lee, Gregory B. Troubadours, Trumpeters, Troubled Makers: Lyricism, Nationalism, and Hybridity in China and Its Others (Durham: Duke University Press, 1996).
Lee, Gregory B. China’s Lost Decade: Cultural Politics and Poetics 1978-1990 in Place of History (Brookline, Mass.: Zephyr Press, 2012).
