Julia Lovell
Autor von The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China
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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 mehr anzeigen 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. weniger anzeigen
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Die Große Mauer: China gegen den Rest der Welt. 1000 v. Chr. - 2000 n. Chr (2006) — Autor — 273 Exemplare
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The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun (2009) — Übersetzer, einige Ausgaben — 299 Exemplare
Monkey King: Journey to the West (A Penguin Classics Hardcover) (1592) — Übersetzer, einige Ausgaben — 166 Exemplare
The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan: More Stories of China (2013) — Übersetzer, einige Ausgaben — 14 Exemplare
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- Lovell, Julia
- Geburtstag
- 1975
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- UK
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- University of Cambridge (BA|1997|M.Phil|1999|Ph.D|2002)
Johns Hopkins-Nanjing University (Dipl|1998) - Berufe
- historian
sinologist
translator
professor - Beziehungen
- Macfarlane, Robert (husband)
- Organisationen
- Birkbeck College, University of London
Queens' College, Cambridge University - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Philip Leverhulme Prize (2010)
Jan Michalski Prize for Literature (2012)
Fellow, British Academy (2019)
Cundill History Prize (2019)
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The book focuses on The First Opium War. Julia Lovell starts with a background of the Qing Empire and the steady degradation of the king. Conditions in China were unstable. The traders were making money off opium, and the courtiers routinely gave false information to the king. Conversely, you had a ravenous British Crown looking for revenue. Opium.
She covers huge ground in the book, revealing Chinese weakness, British duplicity and warmongering, and the debates that raged in England around opium.
Then, she skipped past the next wars and wrote about the fall of the Qing Empire and the rise of Chinese Nationalism and its memory of the wars.
The Chinese have long memories, and, as she says, the memories of the Century of Humiliation live on in China.
An excellent book, one for the keeping.… (mehr)