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 Sabine Schmidtke FBA

Islamic Studies, Islamic and Jewish Intellectual History, Judeo-Arabic, Geniza, Shiism (Twelver Shiism and Zaydism), Yemen, History of Libraries, Islamic Theology (kalam) and Philosophy, Islamic manuscripts, Bible in Arabic, Muslim reception of the Bible, History of Oriental Studies, Correspondences as a Historial Source

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Professor Andrew Gerstle FBA

The cultural and social history of 17th-19th century Japan, with particular reference to Bunraku and Kabuki theatres, popular literature, sexuality and the visual arts

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Professor Elizabeth Anne Lambourn FBA

Material culture and history of the Indian Ocean world before 1500

Elizabeth Anne Lambourn (credit Mikael Wallerstedt)

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