Professor of Modern Chinese Literature, Queen's College, Cambridge

Cambridge, UK

Julia Lovell is a lecturer in modern Chinese history and literature at the University of London. Her faculty webpage is here.

In addition to the translations listed below, she has also written two books, The Politics of Cultural Capital: China’s Quest for a Nobel Prize in Literature (University of Hawai’i Press, 2006) and The Great Wall: China Against the World 1000 BC-AD 2000 (Atlantic Books, 2006). Her next book, The Opium War and Its Afterlives will be published by Picador in 2011.

Works by Julia Lovell

The Real Story of Ah-Q, and Other Tales of China (阿Q正传), published by Penguin in November, 2009

Serve the People, published by Grove Press in February, 2008

China Witness (co-translated with Nicky Harman), published by Chatto & Windus in January, 2008

Lust, Caution (色戒), published by Penguin in November, 2007

I Love Dollars and other stories of China, published by Columbia University Press in November, 2006

The Dictionary of Maqiao (马桥词典), published by Columbia University Press in August, 2003