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Professor Julia Lovell FBA

The political and cultural history of China, and of China’s external relations and impact, between the 19th and 21st centuries; the translation and reception of Chinese literature
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2019
Subjects
History
Sections
Modern History from 1850
Website
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/history/our-staff/academic-staff/professor-julia-lovell

Birkbeck, University of London Professor of Modern Chinese History and Literature

Past appointments

Queens’ College, University of Cambridge Research Fellow in Chinese History and Literature

2003 - 2007

Queens’ College, University of Cambridge Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

2003 - 2007

University of Essex Teaching Assistant in Modern Chinese History

2002 - 2003

Publications

Maoism: A Global History

Julia Lovell - Published in 2019 by Bodley Head

The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China

Julia Lovell - Published in 2012 by Picador

The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun

Lu XunForeword by Yiyun Li Translated by Julia Lovell - Published in 2009 by Penguin

The Politics of Cultural Capital: China’s Quest for a Nobel Prize in Literature

Julia Lovell - Published in 2006 by University of Hawai’i Press

From Beijing to Palestine: Zhang Chengzhi’s Journeys from Red Guard Radicalism to Global Islam

Julia Lovell - Published in 2016 by Journal of Asian Studies

The Cultural Revolution and Its Legacies in International Perspective

Julia Lovell - Published in 2016 by China Quarterly

The Uses of Foreigners in Mao-Era China:

Julia Lovell - Published in 2015 by Transactions of the Royal Historical Society

'Techniques of Hospitality' and International Image-Building in the People’s Republic, 1949-1976

‘Maoism’ by Julia Lovell

25 Sep 2019 Professor Julia Lovell FBA

Read an extract from the 2019 Al-Rodhan Prize-nominated book telling the story of Maoism's international impact and enduring political legacy.

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