Julia Lovell
Author of The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China
About the Author
Julia Lovell is an author, translator, and academic. She is the author of the widely acclaimed The Great Wall: China Against the World 1000 BC-AD 2000, which was published in eighteen countries. She has translated many key Chinese works into English, including Lust, Caution by Eileen Chang, The show more Complete Fiction of Lu Xun, and Serve the People by Yan Lianke. She is a lecturer m modern Chinese history and literature at the University of London and writes for the Guardian, The Times, the Economist, and the Times Literary Supplement. She spends a large part of the year in China with her family. show less
Works by Julia Lovell
Associated Works
The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun (2009) — Translator, some editions — 298 copies
Monkey King: Journey to the West (A Penguin Classics Hardcover) (1592) — Translator, some editions — 165 copies
The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan: More Stories of China (2013) — Translator, some editions — 14 copies
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- Canonical name
- Lovell, Julia
- Birthdate
- 1975
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- UK
- Education
- University of Cambridge (BA|1997|M.Phil|1999|Ph.D|2002)
Johns Hopkins-Nanjing University (Dipl|1998) - Occupations
- historian
sinologist
translator
professor - Relationships
- Macfarlane, Robert (husband)
- Organizations
- Birkbeck College, University of London
Queens' College, Cambridge University - Awards and honors
- Philip Leverhulme Prize (2010)
Jan Michalski Prize for Literature (2012)
Fellow, British Academy (2019)
Cundill History Prize (2019)
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Statistics
- Works
- 7
- Also by
- 9
- Members
- 814
- Popularity
- #31,349
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 9
- ISBNs
- 49
- Languages
- 11