Henrietta Harrison

Henrietta Katherine Harrison, FBA (born 1967) is a British historian, sinologist, and academic.

Education and career[]

Henrietta Harrison was educated at St Paul's Girls' School, Hammersmith, Newnham College, Cambridge (BA 1989), Harvard University (MA) and the University of Oxford (DPhil). She was formerly a junior research fellow at St Anne's College, Oxford (1996–1998), a lecturer in Chinese at the University of Leeds (1999–2006), and a professor of history at Harvard University (2006–2012).^[1] Since 2012, she has been Professor of Modern Chinese Studies at the University of Oxford. She has also been a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford since 2015, and was previously a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford (2012–2015).^[1][2][3]

Honours[]

In 2014, Harrison was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.^[4]

Selected works[]

• Harrison, Henrietta (2000). The making of the Republican citizen: political ceremonies and symbols in China, 1911-1929. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0198295198.
• Harrison, Henrietta (2005). The man awakened from dreams: one man's life in a north China village, 1857-1942. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0804750684.
• Harrison, Henrietta (2013). The Missionary's Curse and Other Tales from a Chinese Catholic Village. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520273115.
• Harrison, Henrietta (2021). The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691225456

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