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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
Sections
Africa, Asia and the Middle East , Theology and Religious Studies
Website
https://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/people/henrietta-harrison

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

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