Julia Lovell on “The Uses of Foreigners in Communist China” – 9/5/14 – UCL, London

Posted: May 9th, 2014 | No Comments »

Dr Julia Lovell

Birkbeck, University of London

 

 

 

“The Uses of Foreigners in Communist China”

Friday 9 May 2014 at 5.30pm

 

Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre

University College London

Julia Lovell is senior lecturer in modern Chinese history and literature at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is the author of three books on modern China, most recently The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China (2011), which won the 2012 Jan Michalski Prize. Her several translations of modern Chinese fiction include Han Shaogong’s A Dictionary of Maqiao (winner of 2011 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature), Zhu Wen’s I Love Dollars, Zhang Ailing’s Lust, Caution and Lu Xun’s The Real Story of Ah-Q, and Other Tales of China. She is currently working on a global history of Maoism, and on a new, abridged translation of Journey to the West.

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