Julia Lovell
China scholar and translator
Julia Lovell is a British scholar and translator who writes non-fiction about China. She is a professor at Birkbeck, University of London.
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British Born 1975
About Julia Lovell
Julia Lovell was born in 1975. She is a professor of modern Chinese history and literature at Birkbeck, University of London. Her research has looked at how culture, including literature, architecture, historiography and sport, relates to nation-building in modern China. Her books include The Great Wall and Maoism: A Global History, which appeared in 2019. Her book on the Opium War won the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature, and she received a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2010. She has also translated works by Lu Xun, Han Shaogong and Eileen Chang, and has written about China for newspapers including The Guardian and The Times.