国际知名历史学者James Beattie 正式加盟中山大学大洋洲研究中心

2026年5月，国际知名环境史学家James John Beattie（毕以迪） 全职加入中山大学历史学系，同时兼任教育部区域与国别研究基地大洋洲研究中心研究员。

 

 

James Beattie 的研究聚焦于大洋洲地区环境史、英帝国史与园林史，尤其关注 19 世纪至 20 世纪初亚太地区的生态与文化网络构建。他的学术成果丰硕，已出版4部专著和9 部合编作品，在包括环境史领域顶级期刊Environment and History在内的各类重要刊物上发表数十篇论文与著作专章。其代表作有专著Empire and Environmental Anxiety, 1800-1920: Health, Science, Art and Conservation in South Asia and Australasia（Palgrave Macmillan, 2011），合著Eco-Cultural Networks and the British Empire: New Perspectives on Environmental History（Bloomsbury, 2015）、Climate, Science, and Colonization: Histories from Australia and New Zealand（Palgrave, 2014）等。

2015年，他创办了期刊 《国际环境史评论》（International Review of Environmental History） 并担任主编至今。该期刊已发行17期，共106篇文章，全球下载量逾15万次。他还担任《新西兰亚洲研究杂志》（New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies）副主编、Palgrave世界环境史研究丛书联合主编、Routledge 园林史丛书联合主编。他还曾在英国苏塞克斯大学、南非约翰内斯堡大学、澳大利亚国立大学、奥塔哥大学、坎特伯雷大学、日本横滨国立大学等机构担任研究员。

James Beattie加盟中山大学是近年来我国世界环境史学科国际学术影响力持续增强的具体表现。他的工作也有利于增强中山大学在大洋洲区域国别研究领域的优势，同时进一步推动本校跨学科研究的发展。

 

James Beattie学术成果概览：

专著

1. James Beattie and Richard Bullen, Chinese Art and Cultural Diplomacy: The Rewi Alley Collection at Canterbury Museum, Canterbury University Press, 2026 [forthcoming].

2. James Beattie and Richard Bullen, Bringing China Home: Chinese Stories and Objects in Hawke’s Bay, MTG Hawke’s Bay and Asia NZ Foundation, 2016.

3. James Beattie and Richard Bullen, Visions of Peace: The Art of Soft Diplomacy and The W.H. Youren Collection of Chinese Art, Confucius Institute & Museum, Theatre, Gallery Hawke’s Bay, 2014.

4. James Beattie and Duncan Campbell, The Art, Culture and History of Lan Yuan 蘭園: The Dunedin Chinese Garden, Shanghai Museum Press and Dunedin Chinese Gardens Trust, 2013.

5. James Beattie, Empire and Environmental Anxiety, 1800–1920: Health, Science, Art and Conservation in South Asia and Australasia, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

编著

1. James Beattie, Ryan Tucker Jones and Edward D. Melillo (eds.), Migrant Ecologies: Environmental Histories of the Pacific World, University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2023.

2. James Beattie, Richard Bullen and Maria Galikowski (eds.), China in Australasia: Cultural Diplomacy and the Collecting and Display of Chinese Arts since the Cold War, Routledge, 2019.

3. James Beattie (ed.), Gardens at the Frontier: New Methodological Perspectives on Garden History and Designed Landscapes, Routledge, 2018.

4. James Beattie and Richard Bullen (eds.), New China Eyewitness: Roger Duff, Rewi Alley and the Art of Museum Diplomacy, Canterbury University Press, 2017.

5. Tsʼui-jung Liu and James Beattie (eds.), 東亞環境、現代化與發展: 環境史的視野, Asian Culture Publishing Co., Taipei, 2017.

6. Tsʼui-jung Liu and James Beattie (eds.), Environment, Modernization, and Development in East Asia: Perspectives from Environmental History, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

7. James Beattie, Edward D. Melillo and Emily O’Gorman (eds.), Eco-Cultural Networks and the British Empire: New Views on Environmental History, Bloomsbury, 2015.

8. James Beattie, Emily O’Gorman and Matt Henry (eds.), Climate, Science, and Colonization: Histories from Australia and New Zealand, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

9. James Beattie (ed.), Lan Yuan: The Garden of Enlightenment: Essays on the Intellectual, Cultural, and Architectural Background to the Dunedin Chinese Garden, New Zealand Asian Studies Society; Dunedin Chinese Gardens Trust, 2008.

期刊论文

1. James Beattie, "Chinese environmental views in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1870s–1910s", International Review of Environmental History, 10(1), 2024, pp. 79–94.

2. Annika Sveding and James Beattie, "Japanese nature protection and forest acclimatisation in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1900–1940s", New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, 26(2), 2024, pp. 33–54.

3. James Beattie and Richard Bullen, "Chinese Art, Cultural Diplomacy, and the Cold War in Rural New Zealand: H.W. Youren’s Peace Work, 1950s–1980s", New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, 26(1), 2024, pp. 53–74.

4. Annika Sveding and James Beattie, "‘A Lesson from China’: Soil Menace Stories in New Zealand Conservation, 1910s–1940s", New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, 25(1), 2023, pp. 71–94.

5. R. Sampath, James Beattie and J. Gaspar De Freitas, "Managing coastal sand drift in the Anthropocene: A case study of the Manawatū-Whanganui Dune Field, New Zealand, 1800s–2020s", Environment and History, 29(3), 2023, pp. 423–448.

6. K. Hartley, James Beattie and J. Lord, "Shepherds to the subantarctic: Examining the introduction of exotic pasture plants by farmers on Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku, during the short-lived farming era, 1895–1931", International Review of Environmental History, 8(2), 2022, pp. 103–125.

7. James Beattie, "Labour and Enterprise: Cantonese farming, work and environmental change in rural Aotearoa New Zealand, 1860s–1914", New Zealand Journal of History, 56(1), 2022, pp. 115–141.

8. James Beattie, "Fashioning a Future Part II: Settlement, Improvement and Conservation in the European colonization of Otago, 1840–1860", International Review of Environmental History, 7(2), 2021, pp. 97–124.

9. James Beattie and Ruth A. Morgan, "From history of science to history of knowledge? Themes and perspectives in colonial Australasia", History Compass, 19(5), 2021, pp. 1–10.

10. James Beattie, "Fashioning a Future Part I: Settlement, Improvement and Conservation in the European colonization of Otago, 1840–1860", International Review of Environmental History, 6(2), 2020, pp. 75–102.

11. James Beattie and J. Boileau, "‘Cultivated with great carefulness’: Chinese market gardening, urban food supplies and public health in Australasia, 1860s–1950s", New Zealand Journal of History, 54(2), 2020, pp. 57–85.

12. Fei Sheng and James Beattie, "近代华人移民与南太平洋地区复合生态的形成", 历史研究 History Studies, 44, 2020, pp. 193–210.

13. James Beattie, "Biota Barons, ‘Neo-Eurasias’ and Indian–New Zealand Informal Eco-Cultural Networks, 1830s–1870s", Global Environment, 13, 2020, pp. 134–165.

14. James Beattie and L. Stevenson, "‘[W]hat beauty in Oriental art means’: Asian arts, soft diplomacy and New Zealand cultural nationalism—The Loan Exhibition of Oriental Art, Christchurch, 1935", Museum Worlds: Advances in Research, 7, 2019, pp. 58–70.

15. James Beattie and Richard Bullen, "The Rewi Alley Collection and Cultural Diplomacy: A New Perspective on China–New Zealand Relations", Orientations, November/December 2018, pp. 94–101.

16. James Beattie, "Rethinking Chinese environmental history", Global History Review 全球史评论, 14, 2018, pp. 30–69.

17. James Beattie, "Environmental History and Garden History in China and the West: Problems, Methods and Responses", Environment and History, 24(1), 2018, pp. 5–22.

18. James Beattie, "Dragons Abroad: Chinese migration and environmental change in Australasia", RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society, 2, 2017, pp. 59–67.

19. James Beattie and Ruth Morgan, "Engineering Edens on This ‘Rivered Earth’? A Review Article on Water Management and Hydro-Resilience in the British Empire, 1860s–1940s", Environment and History, 23(1), 2017, pp. 39–63.

20. James Beattie and Richard Bullen, "Embracing Friendship through Gift and Exchange: Rewi Alley and the Art of Museum Diplomacy in Cold War China and New Zealand", Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 16(2), 2016, pp. 149–166.

21. Emily O’Gorman, James Beattie and Matt Henry, "Histories of climate, science, and colonization in Australia and New Zealand, 1800–1945", WIREs Climate Change, 2016. doi: 10.1002/wcc.426.

22. James Beattie, "China on a Plate: A Willow Pattern Garden Realised", Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes, 36(1), 2016, pp. 17–31.

23. James Beattie, "Gardens at the Frontier: New Methodological Perspectives on Garden History and Designed Landscapes" [Introduction], Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes, 36(1), 2016, pp. 1–4.

24. Cristian Rayes, James Beattie and Ian Duggan, "Boring through History: An environmental history of marine woodborers’ extent, impact and management in a global and local context", Environment and History, 21(4), 2015, pp. 477–512.

25. James Beattie, "Environmental History in East Asia: Recent Scholarship and Trends", New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, 17(1), 2015, pp. 97–113.

26. James Beattie, "‘Hungry Dragons’: Expanding the Horizons of Chinese Environmental History—Cantonese Gold-Miners in Colonial New Zealand, 1860s–1920s", International Review of Environmental History, 1, 2015, pp. 103–145.

27. James Beattie, "Scientific Agriculture, Health and Gardening: Japan, New Zealand and Bella and Frederic Truby King", New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, 16(2), 2014, pp. 47–76.

28. James Beattie, Emily O’Gorman and Edward Melillo, "Rethinking the British Empire through Eco-Cultural Networks: Materialist–Cultural Environmental History, Relational Connections and Agency", Environment and History, 20(4), 2014, pp. 561–575.

29. James Beattie, "Looking for Arcadia: European environmental perception in 1840–1860", ENNZ: Environment and Nature in New Zealand, 9(1), 2014, pp. 40–78.

30. James Beattie, "华人移民与新西兰的环境变迁，1865—1940" (Chinese Migrants and the Environmental Transformation in New Zealand, 1865–1940), 中国社会科学报 Chinese Social Sciences Today, 17 May 2013, p. 4.

31. James Beattie, "New Perspectives on Chinese New Zealand Market Gardeners, 1860s–2010s", New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, 14(1), 2012, pp. 121–127.

32. James Beattie, "Recent Themes in the Environmental Historiography of the British Empire", History Compass, 10(2), 2012, pp. 129–139.

33. James Beattie, "Imperial Landscapes of Health: Place, Plants and People between India and Australia, 1800s–1900s", Health & History, 14(1), 2012, pp. 100–120.

34. James Beattie and Lauren Murray, "Mapping the Social Lives of Objects: Popular and Artistic Responses to the 1937 Exhibition of Chinese Art in New Zealand", East Asian History, 37, 2011, pp. 39–58.

35. James Beattie, "Natural History, Conservation and Health: Scottish-Trained Doctors in New Zealand, 1790–1920s", Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora, 29(3), 2011, pp. 281–307.

36. James Beattie and Hiroki Oikawa, "Health and Biological Connections between Japan and New Zealand", Journal of the Japan Society of Medical History, 57(3), 2011, pp. 305–324.

37. James Beattie, "Making Home, Making Identity: Asian Garden-Making in New Zealand, 1850s–1930s", Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes, 31(2), 2011, pp. 139–159.

38. James Beattie and Kirsty Holmes, "Reflections on the history of Australasian gardens and landscapes", Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes, 31(2), 2011, pp. 75–82.

39. James Beattie and Paul Star, "Global Influences and Local Environments: Forestry and Forest Conservation in New Zealand, 1850s–1925", British Scholar, 3(2), 2010, pp. 191–218.

40. James Beattie, "The Conservation Ethic of New Zealand", Chinese Social Sciences Today, 88, 13 May 2010, p. 11.

41. James Beattie, "Climate Change, Forest Conservation and Science: A Case Study of New Zealand, 1840–1920", History of Meteorology, 5, 2009, pp. 1–18.

42. James Beattie, "Exploring Trans-Tasman Environmental Connections, 1850s–1900s, through the Imperial Careering of Alfred Sharpe", ENNZ: Environment and Nature in New Zealand, 4(1), 2009, pp. 37–57.

43. James Beattie, "Seeing the Wood for the Trees: Empire, Nation-making and Forest Management", New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, 10(2), 2008, pp. 111–120.

44. James Beattie, "Colonial Geographies of Settlement: Vegetation, Towns, Disease and Well-Being in Aotearoa/New Zealand, 1830s–1930s", Environment and History, 14(4), 2008, pp. 583–610.

45. James Beattie, Jasper Heinzen and John P. Adam, "Japanese Gardens in New Zealand, 1850–1950: Transculturation and Transmission", Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes, 28(2), 2008, pp. 219–236.

46. James Beattie and John Stenhouse, "Empire, Environment and Religion: God and Nature in nineteenth-century New Zealand", Environment and History, 13(4), 2007, pp. 413–446.

47. James Beattie, "Growing Chinese Influences in New Zealand: Chinese Gardens, Identity and Meaning", New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, 9(1), 2007, pp. 38–60.

48. James Beattie, "Alfred Sharpe, Australasia, and Ruskin", Journal of New Zealand Art History, 27, 2006, pp. 38–56.

49. James Beattie, "Rethinking Science, Religion and Nature in Environmental History: Drought in Early Twentieth-Century New Zealand", Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung, 29(3), 2004, pp. 82–103.

50. James Beattie, "Environmental Anxiety in New Zealand, 1840–1941: Climate Change, Soil Erosion, Sand Drift, Flooding and Forest Conservation", Environment and History, 9(4), 2003, pp. 379–392.

51. James Beattie, "Dam Building, Dissent, and Development: The Emergence of the Three Gorges Project, China", New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, 4(1), 2002, pp. 138–158.

书籍章节

1. Eric Pawson, James Beattie and R. Quigg, "The Uses of Nature: Productivism and the commodification of Indigenous nature in the Anthropocene", in Franklin Ginn (ed.), Bloomsbury History of Nature: The Twentieth Century, Bloomsbury, forthcoming.

2. James Beattie, "‘[A] life forced on us by others’: Gardens, Environment, and Agency in a Japanese Prisoner of War Camp in New Zealand, 1942–1945", in Richard Bullen and Tets Kimura (eds.), Art of the Unfree: Japanese POW Camps in Australasia, Hong Kong University Press, forthcoming 2026.

3. Fei Sheng and James Beattie, "Current and Future Horizons of Chinese Environmental History", in Edward Wang (ed.), The Routledge Companion to East Asian Historiography, Routledge, 2026, pp. 454–464.

4. James Beattie, "Chinese Resource Frontiers, Environmental Change, and Entrepreneurship in the Pacific, 1790s–1920s", in Edward D. Melillo, Ryan Tucker Jones and James Beattie (eds.), Migrant Ecologies: Environmental Histories of the Pacific World, University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2023, pp. 47–67.

5. James Beattie, Edward Melillo and Ryan Tucker Jones, "Migrant Ecologies" [Introduction], in Edward D. Melillo, Ryan Tucker Jones and James Beattie (eds.), Migrant Ecologies: Environmental Histories of the Pacific World, University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2023, pp. 1–10.

6. James Beattie and E.N. Anderson, "Environments and Empires in World History, 3000 BCE–1900 CE", in Peter Bang, C.A. Bayly and Walter Scheidel (eds.), The Oxford History of World Empires, Oxford University Press, 2021, pp. 460–494.

7. James Beattie and Ruth Morgan, "From History of Science to History of Knowledge? Themes and Perspectives in Colonial Australasia", in Andrew Goss (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Science and Empire, Routledge, 2021, pp. 228–237.

8. James Beattie and Paul Star, "Global Influences and Local Environments: Forestry and Forest Conservation in New Zealand, 1850s–1925", in Vinita Damodaran and Rohan D’Souza (eds.), Commonwealth Forestry and Environmental History, Primus Books, 2020, pp. 449–490.

9. Richard Bullen and James Beattie, "Dancing Foreigner", in House of Treasures: 150 Objects from Canterbury Museum Ngā Taonga Tuku Iho, University of Canterbury Press, 2020, pp. 254–255.

10. James Beattie and Richard Bullen, "‘A present tendency…to possess “something Japanese”’: Japonisme in New Zealand, 1870s–1940s", in Tets Kimura and Jennifer Harris (eds.), Exporting Japanese Aesthetics, Scholars Publishing, 2020, pp. 61–79.

11. Maria Galikowski, James Beattie and Richard Bullen, "China and the Art of Cultural Diplomacy", in James Beattie, Richard Bullen and Maria Galikowski (eds.), China in Australasia: Cultural Diplomacy and the Collecting and Display of Chinese Arts since the Cold War, Routledge, 2019, pp. 1–17.

12. James Beattie and Richard Bullen, "Rewi Alley and the Art of Museum Diplomacy in Cold War China and New Zealand, 1949–1960s", in James Beattie, Richard Bullen and Maria Galikowski (eds.), China in Australasia, Routledge, 2019, pp. 46–61.

13. James Beattie, "Thomas McDonnell’s Opium: Circulating Plants, Patronage, and Power in Britain, China and New Zealand, 1830s–1850s", in Sarah Burke Cahalan and Yota Basaki (eds.), The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century, Dumbarton Oaks / Harvard University Press, 2017, pp. 163–188.

14. James Beattie and Richard Bullen, "Embracing Friendship through Gift and Exchange: Rewi Alley and the Art of Museum Diplomacy in Cold War China and New Zealand", in Sophie McIntyre (ed.), 34th World Congress of Art History / Comité International de l’Histoire de l’Art, Section 6, Peking University & CAFA, 2016, pp. 585–594.

15. James Beattie and Ts’ui-jung Liu, "Introduction—Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia", in Tsʼui-jung Liu and James Beattie (eds.), Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp. 1–30.

16. James Beattie, "A Case Study of Chinese Migration and Colonial Development in the British Empire, 1860s–1920s", in Tsʼui-jung Liu and James Beattie (eds.), Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp. 59–86.

17. James Beattie, "‘A shock which … can scarcely be understood’: Health panics, migration and plant exchange between India and Australia post-1857", in Robert Peckham (ed.), Empires of Panic: Epidemics and Colonial Anxieties, Hong Kong University Press, 2015, pp. 87–110.

18. James Beattie, "Eco-cultural networks in southern China and colonial New Zealand, 1860s–1910s", in James Beattie, Edward Melillo and Emily O’Gorman (eds.), Eco-Cultural Networks and the British Empire, Bloomsbury, 2015, pp. 151–179.

19. James Beattie, Edward Melillo and Emily O’Gorman, "Eco-Cultural Networks and the British Empire" [Introduction], in James Beattie, Edward Melillo and Emily O’Gorman (eds.), Eco-Cultural Networks and the British Empire, Bloomsbury, 2015, pp. 3–20.

20. James Beattie, "Plants, Animals and Environmental Transformation: New Zealand/Indian biological and landscape connections, 1830s–1890s", in Vinita Damodaran and Anna Winterbotham (eds.), The East India Company and the Natural World, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, pp. 219–248.

21. James Beattie, Emily O’Gorman and Matt Henry, "Introduction: Climate, Science, and Colonization: Histories from Australia and New Zealand", in James Beattie, Emily O’Gorman and Matt Henry (eds.), Climate, Science, and Colonization, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, pp. 1–16.

22. James Beattie, "Science, Religion, and Drought: Rainmaking Experiments and Prayers in North Otago, 1889–1911", in James Beattie, Emily O’Gorman and Matt Henry (eds.), Climate, Science, and Colonization, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, pp. 137–155.

23. James Beattie, Matt Henry and Emily O’Gorman, "Future Research Directions", in James Beattie, Emily O’Gorman and Matt Henry (eds.), Climate, Science, and Colonization, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, pp. 251–253.

24. James Beattie, "‘The Empire of the Rhododendron’: Reorienting New Zealand Garden History", in Tom Brooking and Eric Pawson (eds.), Making a New Land: Environmental Histories of New Zealand, Otago University Press, 2013, pp. 241–257.

25. James Beattie, "Wilderness Found, Lost and Restored: The Sublime and Picturesque in New Zealand", in Richard Reeve and Mick Abbott (eds.), Wild Heart: The Possibility of Wilderness in Aotearoa New Zealand, Otago University Press, 2011, pp. 89–103.

26. James Beattie, "Biological Invasion and Narratives of Environmental History in New Zealand, 1800–2000", in Ian D. Rotherham and Robert A. Lambert (eds.), Invasive and Introduced Plants and Animals, Earthscan, 2011, pp. 343–352.

27. James Beattie, "Japan–New Zealand Cultural Contacts, 1880s–1920", in Machiko Aoyagi (ed.), 63 Chapters to Know New Zealand, Akashi Shoten, 2008, pp. 270–273.

28. James Beattie, "Gardens of Southern China", in James Beattie (ed.), Lan Yuan: The Garden of Enlightenment, New Zealand Asian Studies Society; Dunedin Chinese Gardens Trust, 2008, pp. 35–44.

29. James Beattie, "Growing Chinese Influences: The Dunedin Chinese Garden", in James Beattie (ed.), Lan Yuan: The Garden of Enlightenment, New Zealand Asian Studies Society; Dunedin Chinese Gardens Trust, 2008, pp. 61–89.

30. James Beattie, "Introduction", in James Beattie (ed.), Lan Yuan: The Garden of Enlightenment, New Zealand Asian Studies Society; Dunedin Chinese Gardens Trust, 2008, pp. 1–8.

31. James Beattie, Jasper Heinzen and John P. Adam, "Japanese Gardens in New Zealand", in Machiko Aoyagi (ed.), 63 Chapters to Know New Zealand, Akashi Shoten, 2008, pp. 278–279.

32. James Beattie, "Tropical Asia and Temperate New Zealand: Health and Conservation Connections, 1840–1920", in Brian Moloughney and Henry Johnson (eds.), Asia in the Making of New Zealand, Auckland University Press, 2007, pp. 36–57.

33. James Beattie, Nanyan Guo and Paul Star, "Tsugaru to Otago no shizen hogo", in Nanyan Guo (ed.), Kita Nihon to Minami Nyūji-rando no, Hirosaki University Press, 2007, pp. 187–202.

34. James Beattie, "W.L. Lindsay, Scottish Environmentalism, Webs of Information, and the ‘Improvement’ of Nineteenth-century New Zealand", in Tony Ballantyne and Judith A. Bennett (eds.), Landscape/Community: Perspectives from New Zealand History, University of Otago Press, 2005, pp. 43–56.

35. James Beattie and Paul Star, "State Forest Conservation and the New Zealand Landscape: Origins and Influences, 1850–1914", in Tony Ballantyne and Judith A. Bennett (eds.), Landscape/Community: Perspectives from New Zealand History, University of Otago Press, 2005, pp. 17–29.

36. James Beattie and John Stenhouse, "God and the Natural World in nineteenth-century New Zealand", in John Stenhouse (ed.), Christianity, Modernity and Culture: New Perspectives of New Zealand History, ATF Press, 2005, pp. 180–206.

37. James Beattie, "Alfred Sharpe’s Forest Consciousness in New Zealand and Australia, 1859–1908", in Michael Calver et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 6th National Conference of the Australian Forest History Society Inc., Millwood Press, 2005, pp. 17–25.