Professor Henrietta Harrison FBA

The social and cultural history of China from the Qing through to the present, especially rural north China, links between transnational and local history, religion, diplomacy and revolution
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2014

Current post

Professor of Modern Chinese Studies, University of Oxford; Fellow, Pembroke College, Oxford

Publications

The Missionary’s Curse and Other Tales from a Chinese Catholic Village. 2013

The Making of the Republican Citizen: Ceremonies and Symbols in China, 1911-1929 2000

The Man Awakened from Dreams: One Man's Life in a North China Village 1857-1942 2005

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Simon Swain FBA

Greco-Roman antiquity and its legacy in the East

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Professor Peter Jackson FBA

The Mongol Empire & its relations with the Catholic West; the Crusades & the Latin East; & the eastern Islamic world in the Middle Ages.

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Professor Clare Harris FBA

Art, photography, museums and material culture of Tibet, the Tibetan diaspora and India. Anthropological, art historical and curatorial research on the representation of Tibet internationally in the past and present

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