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

Dr Annabel Teh Gallop FBA

Writing traditions, book cultures and the art of the Qur’an in Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean world; Malay and Indonesian manuscripts, letters, documents and seals, and comparative Islamic diplomatics

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Revd Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch Kt FBA

Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University

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Professor Robert P Gordon FBA

The Hebrew Bible / Old Testament: the ancient near eastern context; the Hebrew text and the ancient versions; exegesis and theology; the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament in Jewish and Christian tradition.

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