Julia Lovell

Julia Lovell (born 1975 ) is a British sinologist and translator into English.

Life

Julia Lovell lived in China for a long time and did research at the History Institute of Peking University and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences . She taught modern Chinese history and literature at Queen's College of Cambridge University and is a senior lecturer in Chinese history at the Department of History, Classics and Archeology of Birkbeck College of the University of London .

She is a freelance writer for The Times , The Guardian , The Economist and The Times Literary Supplement . In addition to some literary translations into English, she has published three monographs of her own.

In 2008 she was a finalist for the Kiriyama Prize with her translation of I love Dollars by Zhu Wen . Her research was funded with the Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2010 . In 2012 she received the Jan Michalski Prize in Switzerland for her book The Opium War . In 2019 Lovell was elected to the British Academy .

Fonts

• The Opium War: drugs, dreams and the making of China . London: Picador, 2011, ISBN 978-0-330-53785-8 .
• The Great Wall: China against the world, 1000 BC-AD 2000 . New York: Grove Press 2006.
  • The great wall. China versus the rest of the world. 1000 BC Chr. -. 2000 AD . Translated from the English. by Ursula Pesch and Heike Schlatterer. Stuttgart: Theiss, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-2074-2 .
• The politics of cultural capital: China's quest for a Nobel Prize in literature . Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2006.

Translations (selection)

• Lu Xun : The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China . Translation and introduction by Julia Lovell. Cambridge: Proquest LLC, 2011.
• Zhu Wen : I love dollars and other stories of China . Translation and introduction by Julia Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.
• Yan Lianke : Serve the people! Translation by Julia Lovell. New York, NY: Black Cat, 2007.
• Han Shaogong : A dictionary of Maqiao . Translation by Julia Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. (Winner of the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature 2011)

Web links

• Literature by and about Julia Lovell in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Julia Lovell in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Short biography and reviews of works by Julia Lovell at perlentaucher.de
• Julia Lovell , Department of History, Classics and Archeology Birkbeck, University of London
• Julia Lovell , at paper republic

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Philip Leverhulme Prize Winners 2010 , at Leverhulme Prize
2. ↑ Julia Lovell , at Fondation Jan Michalski