Geremie R. Barmé (born 1954) is an Australian sinologist and film-maker on modern and traditional China.

His films include The Gate of Heavenly Peace (1995), which depicts the spring of 1989 in China leading up to the events of June Fourth, and Morning Sun, on the Cultural Revolution.

[3] In 2016, he founded The Wairarapa Academy for New Sinology[4] in collaboration with sinologist John Minford.

[1] When he first returned to Australia as a lecturer in history, one of his first students was future Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, whose support was important in funding the Centre for China in the World.

[7] In an essay first published in 2005, Barmé called for a "New Sinology," which would be The historian Arif Dirlik is among those who welcomed Barmé's intervention as "an important reminder of the importance of language as the defining feature of the term.