China Heritage<\/i>, which was launched in December 2016,\u00a0<\/i>is also the online home of The Wairarapa Academy for New Sinology \u6e05\u6f2a\u66f8\u9662, which is based in South Wairarapa<\/a>, New Zealand. (In te reo M\u0101ori the word ‘wairarapa’ refers to glistening waters or waves, translated here as \u6e05\u6f2a q\u012bng y\u012b<\/em>, ‘clear and rippling waters’. The Wairarapa region is named after Wairarapa Moana, a large lake south of the town of Featherston<\/a>.)<\/p>\n The main menu of the\u00a0China Heritage<\/i> site is divided into four sections:<\/p>\n China Heritage Annual<\/i><\/a>, a ‘sororal site’, was launched in March 2017. Envisaged as a separate site building on the thematic work of\u00a0China Heritage Quarterly<\/i> (2005-2012) the annual themes of\u00a0China Heritage <\/em>can be found under ‘Topics’ in the menu bar. Similarly,\u00a0A New Sinology Reader <\/i>which\u00a0explores the ideas first proposed by Geremie R. Barm\u00e9 with the founding of the China Heritage Project in 2005, and which informed the creation of the Australian Centre on China in the World in 2010 is available in\u00a0Readings in New Sinology<\/a><\/em>, a section of this site.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n The origins of China Heritage<\/i>\u00a0go back to 1980 when Geremie Barm\u00e9 and John Minford encountered each other\u00a0at The Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra. John was completing\u00a0his doctoral research on (and translation of) the last forty chapters of The Story of the Stone<\/i>\u00a0under the supervision of Professor Liu Ts’un-yan \u67f3\u5b58\u4ec1<\/a>, while Geremie was back at ANU\u00a0to take part\u00a0in an intensive\u00a0Japanese language course\u00a0after a six-year absence studying in the People’s Republic of China and working in Hong Kong. They met at a seminar given by visiting translators and writers from China, including Geremie’s Beijing friends Yang Hsien-yi \u694a\u61b2\u76ca and Gladys Yang<\/a>. It was on that occasion\u00a0that\u00a0the Yangs encountered the writer Pierre Ryckmans (Simon Leys)<\/a>, Geremie’s Chinese teacher <\/a>and future PhD supervisor.<\/p>\n Thereafter, John and family moved to\u00a0Tianjin where John worked as\u00a0a ‘foreign expert’ at the Tianjin Foreign Languages Institute\u00a0and, at the end of 1980, Geremie went to Japan to continue his studies. In 1983, by which time John had been invited by Stephen Soong \u5b8b\u6dc7<\/a>, an old friend of Professor Liu’s, to become the Director\u00a0of the Translation Research Centre at Chinese University of Hong Kong and editor of Renditions<\/i>\u00a0\u8b6f\u53e2, they collaborated on a special issue of Renditions<\/i>\u00a0<\/a>dedicated to contemporary Chinese literature and what they would dub the ‘Chinese commonwealth’ (not dissimilar from the philosopher Tu Wei-ming’s \u675c\u7dad\u660e concept of ‘Cultural China’ \u6587\u5316\u4e2d\u570b). That issue of the journal, designed by John, was titled\u00a0Trees on the Mountain<\/i><\/a> (Renditions<\/em>, Nos. 19 & 20, Spring and Autumn 1983), a title inspired by ‘Gradual’ Jian\u00a0<\/i>\u6f38, Hexagram LIII of the I Ching,\u00a0<\/i>which consists\u00a0of two trigrams representing Wind and Wood on the Mountain (\u826e\u70ba\u5c71\uff0c\u5dfd\u70ba\u6728).<\/p>\n In 1985-1986, John invited Geremie to join him in\u00a0editing\u00a0Seeds of Fire: Chinese Voices of Conscience,\u00a0<\/i>a volume of translations and essays published by Far Eastern Economic Review<\/i>\u00a0that reflected the cultural maelstrom of 1980s’ China, including Hong Kong and Taiwan. Following the repression of student demonstrations in late 1986 and the purge of ‘bourgeois liberalism’ in early 1987, a revised and expanded edition of the book\u00a0was published by in New York by Hill & Wang. After the 4 June 1989 Beijing Massacre, John and Geremie were invited by their US publisher to produce a new book, which they called\u00a0New Ghosts, Old Dreams: Chinese Rebel Voices<\/i>. That volume was\u00a0completed by Geremie with Linda Jaivin and published in 1992.\u00a0Those three volumes \u2014\u00a0Trees on the Mountain<\/i>, Seeds of Fire <\/i>and New Ghosts, Old Dreams \u2014\u00a0<\/i>along with lives spent pursuing\u00a0research, teaching, writing and translation work all contributed to the founding of the China Heritage Project in 2005 and the creation, in 2016, of\u00a0China Heritage<\/i>.<\/p>\n China Heritage<\/i>\u00a0advocates a New Sinology \u5f8c\u6f22\u5b78<\/a>. This is\u00a0an approach to the Chinese and Sinophone world that builds on traditional Sinological strengths while emphasising a learned\u00a0engagement with the complex and shifting realities of contemporary China, and the Chinese commonwealth (Hong Kong, Taiwan, the People\u2019s Republic and the global Sinosphere).<\/p>\n In 2010, the ideas motivating\u00a0New Sinology<\/a>\u00a0underpinned the founding of The Australian Centre on China in the World \u4e2d\u83ef\u5168\u7403\u7814\u7a76\u4e2d\u5fc3 at The Australian National University by then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd with Geremie R Barm\u00e9, and with the support of the university’s vice-chancellor, Ian Chubb. It also informed the Centre’s research agenda and\u00a0The China Story Project<\/a>\u00a0(2012-2016) which, for a time, allowed for the practical application of New Sinology to the study of things Chinese.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n China Heritage\u00a0<\/i>was designed by\u00a0Callum Smith<\/a>, under the guidance of Geremie R. Barm\u00e9, who conceptualised the site and its contents.<\/p>\n The featured art work on the original masthead of the site was a photograph of West Lake, Hangzhou at \u00a0Solitary Hill \u5b64\u5c71. It was made by the New York-based photographer Lois Conner<\/a>, a friend who contributed generously to the China Heritage Project<\/a> from its inception in 2005, as well as to The China Story Project<\/a> from 2012 to 2016.<\/p>\n In 2022, the masthead of China Heritage features a work made by Lois Conner at Lu Shan in Jiangxi province (see\u00a0Prologue \u771f\u9762\u76ee \u2014 The True Face of Mount Lu<\/a>, 1 January 2022).<\/p>\n The leitmotif\u00a0of China Heritage<\/em> is\u00a0the word-idea \u907a y\u00ed<\/i>. On the masthead the character \u907a y\u00ed<\/i>\u00a0is written in the hand of Li Huailin \u674e\u61f7\u7433 of the Tang dynasty. This calligraphic motif was suggested by Callum Smith. Our version of\u00a0\u907a y\u00ed<\/i>\u00a0is taken from Li’s grass-script \u8349\u66f8 transcription of a \u2018Letter to Shan Tao\u2019 \u8207\u5de8\u5c71\u6e90\u7d55\u4ea4\u66f8, a famous epistle written by Xi Kang (\u5d47\u5eb7, 223-262 CE), one of the outspoken Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove \u7af9\u6797\u4e03\u8ce2. Xi Kang’s\u00a0letter frames the essay ‘On Heritage \u907a’<\/a>, a statement about the rationale of this website and The Wairarapa Academy for New Sinology.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n The China Heritage Project and\u00a0China\u00a0Heritage\u00a0Quarterly<\/em> evolved together as part of an Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship, which I held at The Australian National University (ANU) from 2005. Callum Smith’s work on the\u00a0China Heritage<\/i> website in 2016 was also\u00a0made possible by that grant.<\/p>\n Without long years of support from ANU and the Australian Research Council, my work on New Sinology and China Heritage would not have been possible. In particular, I would acknowledge Ian Chubb, Mandy Thomas, Claire Roberts, Bruce Doar, Sang Ye \u6851\u66c4, Judith Pabian, Gloria Davies, Jude Shanahan, Daniel Sanderson, Duncan Campbell, John Minford, Lois Conner, Jeremy Goldkorn, Linda Jaivin and Kevin Rudd for their encouragement and contributions to the first ten years of New Sinology. In creating China Heritage<\/i>\u00a0Nancy Chiu and Celiya Yang were also constant in their support.<\/p>\n I am also grateful to Ryan Manuel, a former colleague at the Australian Centre on China in the World, for introducing me to Callum Smith, the designer of this site. In 2015, Callum worked with me on his Honours Year thesis, China’s Shanzhai <\/i>\u5c71\u5be8 Entrepreneurs: Hooligans or Heroes?<\/a><\/p>\n In 2016, Callum agreed to help me create\u00a0the China Heritage<\/i> website which we\u00a0launched on 15 December 2016 when I presented a keynote address titled ‘Living with Xi Dada\u2019s China \u2014 Making Choices and Cutting Deals’<\/a> at the conference ‘Political Enchantments: Aesthetic practices and the Chinese state’ organised by Gloria Davies and Christian Sorace in Melbourne, Australia.<\/p>\n The serif typefaces used on\u00a0this site are\u00a0part of the\u00a0overall tradition-inspired, black and white style of China Heritage<\/i>. Trajan<\/a> is used for titles, Caslon<\/a> for content and STKaiti, or\u00a0Huawen kaiti <\/i>\u83ef\u6587\u6977\u9ad4, for Chinese. 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