About China Heritage

China Heritage is a continuation and expansion of the China Heritage Project established by Geremie R. Barmé in 2005 and the e-journal China Heritage Quarterly, which appeared under the auspices of that project from 2005 to 2012.… Read

Acknowledgements

China Heritage was designed by Callum Smith, under the guidance of Geremie R. Barmé, who conceptualised the site and its contents. The featured art work on the masthead, a photograph looking out at West Lake, Hangzhou, from Solitary Hill 孤山, was made by the New York-based photographer Lois Conner, a friend who contributed generously to the China Heritage Project from its inception in 2005, as well as to The China Story Project from 2012.… Read

On Heritage 遺

The following essay offers the Rationale behind China Heritage, an independent web-based publishing and archival project related to Chinese culture, translation and thought. The site, which is the online home of The Wairarapa Academy for New Sinology, builds on the tradition of New Sinology proposed by the China Heritage Project from May 2005.’On… Read

On New Sinology

New Sinology 後漢學 encourages a multifaceted understanding of China and the Sinophone world, one grounded in an ability to appreciate critically the living past in China’s present. This approach essays a more holistic understanding of ‘things Chinese’ relevant not only to academics, but also to a wider, engaged public.… Read