Research areas
Professor Lee specialises in the culture and cultural history of China and its diaspora from the nineteenth-century imagining of China the nation-state to today. His areas of interest include collective memory, censorship, the technical/technological society, the Anthopocene, 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.
He has supervised numerous doctoral students in the fields of Chinese Studies and Transcultural Studies.
Selected publications
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Open access
Lee, G. B., 6 Apr 2026, Mediapart, Online.
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication ? Article
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Open access
Lee, G. B., 7 Apr 2026, Mediapart, Online.
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Lee, G. B., 10 Apr 2026, Mediapart, Online.
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication ? Article
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Lee, G. B., 26 May 2025
Research output: Non-textual form ? Digital or Visual Products
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Lee, G. B., 30 May 2025, Mediapart.
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Open access
Lee, G. B., 14 Mar 2025, Mediapart, Online.
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication ? Article
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Lee, G. B. & Wong, J., 4 Dec 2024, In: Transtext(e)s Transcultures 跨文本跨文化. 18, 3 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal ? Editorial
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Lee, G. B., 9 Feb 2024, In: Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR) . 45, p. 318-323
Research output: Contribution to journal ? Book/Film/Article review ? peer-review
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Lee, G. B., 23 Jun 2024, Online : Mediapart.
Research output: Other contribution
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Open access
Lee, G. B. & Wong, J., 30 Dec 2024, In: Transtext(e)s Transcultures 跨文本跨文化. 18, 3 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal ? Editorial