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 Roel Sterckx FBA

Classical and literary Chinese language and philology; history, religion and thought of pre-imperial and early imperial China; text and manuscript studies (Warring States, Qin, and Han periods); the natural world in pre-modern China

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Revd Professor John Barton FBA

The Old Testament; theory and practice of biblical interpretation, biblical ethics, history of the Old and New Testament canons, and prophecy in ancient Israel.

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Professor Charles Tripp FBA

Politics in the Middle East, particularly in Iraq & Egypt; Islamic political thought; the relationship between art & power in the Middle East.

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