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 Harri Englund FBA

African-language political and moral thought; the historical-linguistic translation of freedom, equality and human rights; the racial and humanitarian politics of Christian missions in 19th-century Africa

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Professor Yael Navaro FBA

Professor Yael Navaro FBA is a social anthropologist who specializes in the study of politics, the state, and political violence and its aftermaths.

Professor Yael Navaro FBA

Professor David Wang FBA

Modern and Contemporary Chinese and Sinophone literature; comparative theory of narratology; literature and thought in the making of Chinese modernity

David Wang FBA

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