Julia Lovell
Julia Lovell FBA (born 1975) is a British scholar and prize-winning author and translator focusing on China.
Life and career
Lovell is professor of Modern Chinese History and Literature at Birkbeck, University of London, where her research has been focused principally on the relationship between culture (specifically, literature, architecture, historiography and sport) and modern Chinese nation-building.[1]
Lovell's books include The Politics of Cultural Capital: China's Quest for a Nobel Prize in Literature (University of Hawaii Press, 2006); The Great Wall: China Against the World 1000 BC – AD 2000 (Atlantic Books, 2006);[2] and The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China (Picador, 2011).
Lovell is also a
She was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2010 in the category of Medieval, Early Modern, and Modern History. These prizes are given to young scholars who have made a significant contribution to their field.[5]
Lovell has written articles about China for
She is married to author Robert Macfarlane.[7]
Reception
Lovell's book The Opium Wars: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China was widely reviewed in both scholarly journals and the press. Matthew W. Mosca, writing in the
Jeffrey Wasserstrom wrote in Time that Lovell's translation of the works of Lu Xun "could be considered the most significant Penguin Classic ever published."[11]
Awards and honours
- 2010 Philip Leverhulme Prize[5][12]
- 2012
- 2019 Baillie Gifford Prize, shortlisted[14]
- 2019 elected Fellow of the British Academy[15]
- 2019 Cundill History Prize, winner, Maoism[16]
Selected works
- Lovell, Julia (2006). The Politics of Cultural Capital : China's Quest for a Nobel Prize in Literature. Honolulu: ISBN 978-0824829629.
- —— (2006). The Great Wall: China against the World, 1000 BC-Ad 2000. New York; Berkeley, Calif.: ISBN 978-0802118141.
- —— (2011). The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China. London: Picador. ISBN 9780330537858.
- —— (2019). Maoism: A Global History. New York: Knopf. ISBN 9780525656043.
Translations
- Han, Shaogong (2003). A Dictionary of Maqiao. New York: ISBN 978-0231127448.
- Zhu, Wen (2007). I Love Dollars and Other Stories of China. New York: ISBN 978-0231136945.
- Zhang, Ailing (2007). Lust, Caution: The Story. New York: ISBN 978-0307387448.
- Yan, Lianke (2007). Serve the People!. New York, NY: Black Cat. ISBN 9780802170446.
- Lu, Xun (2009). The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun. London; New York: ISBN 9780140455489.
- Monkey King: Journey to the West. New York: ISBN 9780143107187. Translation of selected chapters of the 16th century novel Xiyou Ji into lively contemporary English, with an extensive Introduction by Lovell and a Preface by Gene Luen Yang.[17][18][19]
References
- ^ "Professor Julia Lovell — Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London". Birkbeck, University of London. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- ^ Abrahamsen, Eric (22 October 2015). "Julia Lovell". Paper-republic.org. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
- ^ "Finalists". The Kiriyama Prize. Archived from the original on 18 June 2011. Retrieved 2 February 2011.
- ^ a b "The Jan Michalski Prize for Literature 2012".
- ^ a b "Awards made in 2010" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
- ^ "Penguin Classics". Penguin Classics. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 7 October 2020.
- S2CID 163366425.
- ^ Mitter, Rana (2 September 2011). "The Opium War (A review)". The Guardian.
- ^ "Be Careful What you Wish For". The Economist. 29 October 2011.
- ^ "China's Orwell". Time. 7 December 2009. p. 174.
- ^ "Dr Julia Lovell". University of London website. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
- ^ "Le Prix Jan Michalski 2012 attribué à Julia Lovell". Le Temps (in French). 22 November 2012. Retrieved 23 November 2012.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction shortlist revealed | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
- The British Academy. Retrieved 8 November 2019.
- ^ "British scholar Julia Lovell wins McGill-run history prize for book on Maoism". www.citynews1130.com. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
- ^ Van Fleet, John Darwin (31 January 2021). "Monkey King (Review)". Asian Review of Books. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
- ^ Wasserstrom, Jeffrey (10 December 2020). "Julia Lovell on the Monkey King's Travels Across Borders: A Conversation". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
- ^ Review my Minjie Chen, 'A Chinese Classic Journeys to the West: Julia Lovell’s Translation of “Monkey King”' in the Los Angeles Review of Books , 5 Oct 2021 https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-chinese-classic-journeys-to-the-west-julia-lovells-translation-of-monkey-king/ Retrieved 5 Oct 2021
External links
- Interview with Julia Lovell, Paper Republic.
- "Julia Lovell's Lu Xun," Danwei.
- Julia Lovell, "Beijing Values the Nobels: That's Why This Hurts."
- Kiriyama Prize Finalists Archived 18 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine.
- Yang Guang, "Establishing a Bond with Chinese writing," China Daily (July 30, 2010).