Gregory B. Lee

Gregory B. Lee
Native name	利大英 (Lì Dàyīng)
Born	1955
Known for	British sinologist
Awards	French Order of Academic Palms; Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities
Academic background
Education	University of London
Alma mater	Peking University
Academic work
Discipline	Chinese cultural studies
Institutions	University of Cambridge University of Hong Kong University of Lyon
Main interests	Chinese and comparative literary and cultural studies

Gregory B. Lee (born 1955) is an academic, author, and broadcaster. Lee is Professor of Chinese and Transcultural Studies at the University of Lyon (Jean Moulin) and Director of the French research Institute for Transtextual and Transcultural Studies IETT (Institut d'Etudes Transtextuelles et Transculturelles EA 4186). Lee was previously Chair Professor of Chinese and Transcultural Studies at City University of Hong Kong where he established, and was the founding Director of, the Hong Kong Advanced Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Studies (2010–2012). He also served as Dean of City University's College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. From 2007 to 2010 Lee was First Vice-President of Jean Moulin University Lyon 3. In 2010, Lee was made a Chevalier (Knight) in the French Order of Academic Palms Ordre des Palmes Académiques. In 2011, he was elected Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities.

Lee received his undergraduate degree in modern and classical Chinese at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in 1979, and his PhD in Chinese poetry from the same institution in 1985. He also studied political economy and Chinese literature at Peking University (1979–1981, 1982–83) as a British Council Scholar, and was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences's Institute of Literature in 1985–86.

Lee formerly taught in the United Kingdom at the University of Cambridge (1983-1984) and later 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.

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