Julia Lovell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3745332 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julia Lovell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julia |
| FAMILY NAME | Lovell |
| SIGNATURE | LOVELL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 278 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Sanxingdui Site
The Sanxingdui site is a Neolithic and early Bronze Age site in the Sichuan Basin and home to a civilisation unrecorded in Chinese historical sources. Propelled to national prominence by the discovery of extraordinary bronze artefacts between 1986 and 2021, Sanxingdui is a distinctive case study of how field archaeology in a regional setting has been carried out and interpreted, and how it fits into the practice of Chinese archaeology. This chapt…
Copyright Page
Zeng Zhaoyu, Nanjing Museum, and the Politics of Museums in Early Mao-Era China
During the Mao era (1949–1976), Chinese museums used a Marxist framework to interpret unearthed cultural relics. This chapter uses documents from the Nanjing Museum in the Jiangsu Provincial Archive to explore one case study of this process. It develops an intellectual and professional biography of Zeng Zhaoyu (1909–1964), one of China’s first female archaeologists and museum directors. Born into a declining gentry family, Zeng studied for a mast…
Public Archaeology in China between the Late Qing and Republican Periods
The opening of China to the West after the First Opium War (1839–1842) ushered in two major changes in Chinese intellectual life: the widespread introduction of Western knowledge and the development of a new medium of communication, a modern press. The latter became the principal medium for the dissemination of Western learning in China and also a channel for public opinion in Chinese intellectual circles. Around the same time, in the latter part…
The Oxford Handbook of the History and Practice of Chinese Archaeology
This volume focuses on the history and practice of archaeology in the Sinophere (China and Taiwan). It brings together 48 chapters by a diverse community of international scholars (archaeologists, historians, heritage specialists, and museum professionals) from Asia, Europe, and North America. The chapters cover many of the most significant issues in Chinese archaeology: the discipline’s origins in antiquarian practices at least a millennium old;…
Maoism
The Politics of Cultural Capital
Lucien Bianco. La récidive
For the best part of a century, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has looked to the Soviet Union, in turn worshipfully, beseechingly, loathingly, and then anxiously. Between the 1920s and the 1940s, Chinese Communists sought practical assistance and ideological guidance in making revolution. During the 1950s, they requested—and received—vast transfers of material and technical aid, including the rudiments of an atom bomb. Across the 1960s and 197…
From Beijing to Palestine
This article traces the intellectual evolution of Zhang Chengzhi (b. 1948), a contemporary Chinese poet, novelist, essayist, archaeologist, and ethnographer, from Mao-era radicalism to Islamic internationalism. Allegedly the inventor of the term "Red Guard" in the context of the Cultural Revolution, he has remained an unapologetic defender of Mao and of the "Red Guard spirit" since the 1960s. In 1987, meanwhile, Zhang converted to an impoverished…
Undesired Outcomes
This article will explore the evolution of China's border policy through the 1950s and 1960s. Drawing on newly available archival sources and recent secondary literature, it will argue that during the early Cold War, the PRC leadership lacked a clear sense of the concept of national sovereignty, and often attempted to use territorial negotiations with China's neighbours to bargain for broader foreign policy objectives. The article will also exami…
The Uses of Foreigners in Mao-Era China
This paper focuses on the inner workings of Mao-era China's ‘foreign affairs’ system ( waishi xitong ): the complex, comprehensive web of bureaucracy woven after 1949 to monitor and control Chinese contact with the outside world. It explores one of the channels along which the People's Republic between 1949 and 1976 tried to project international, soft-power messages beyond conventional diplomatic channels: the inviting of so-called ‘foreign gues…
Finding a Place
The political, economic and social changes experienced by China over the past decade have been mirrored by transformations in the literary realm. Writers, editors, critics and readers have contended with the acceleration of commercialisation, the rise of the Internet, and the Communist Party's subtly changing attitude to creative freedom. This essay examines the creative responses of three critically acclaimed generations of novelists - born betw…
"Pointing to New Clarity with New Perplexity" The 2011 Newman Prize Lecture
SPECIAL SECTION Han Shaogong (b.1953) is one of contemporary China's most critically acclaimed novelists, celebrated for his linguistically sophisticated and inventive novels and essays of modern China. More biographical information is included in Julia Lovell's essay {page 25). LadiesandGentlemen, Itisa great honor for metobeherereceivingencouragement from thejurors ontheselectioncommittee andaccepting thesecondNewman PrizeforChineseLiterature. …
Dropped off the Map
u UJ Q C O Io X a. Han with nality, Shaogong exceptional human (b. perspectives artistry 1953)intertwines, and of origithe withexceptional artistry and originality ,humanperspectives of the localandtheglobal, andhiscareer exemplifies thecreative revolution thathas takenplacein Chinesewriting since1976.Han's representativework , A Dictionary ofMaqiao, is tobe commendedforthehumorand humanity of its storytelling; for itsunsentimental dedication to …
Beginning (End) 归元(归完)
Editorial note: From A Dictionary ofMaqiao (slightly revised), copyright©2003 by Columbia University Press. Reprinted by permission of CUP and HarperCollins Australia. Fofe a review of ADictionary of■ pag^o,seefte September 1 In nounced the Maqiao same wan dialect, as in the Mandarin) the word word for for is "beginning" pronounced "end"(pronounced waninMandarin) is pronounced the same as the word for"beginning" {yuan). Two temporal extremes are …
Prologue
Within China, Beijing's successful bid to host the 2008 Olympics has been celebrated as proof of the country's confident resurgence in world politics and culture. Chinese analysts have seized upon the Olympic Movement's stated universalistic aim of ‘promoting a peaceful society concerned with the preservation of human dignity’ to underline the benignity of China's own ‘peaceful rise’; to assert that China's new power and influence will be a force…
The Great Wall
The Oxford Handbook of the History and Practice of Chinese Archaeology
This volume focuses on the history and practice of archaeology in the Sinophere (China and Taiwan). It brings together 48 chapters by a diverse community of international scholars (archaeologists, historians, heritage specialists, and museum professionals) from Asia, Europe, and North America. The chapters cover many of the most significant issues in Chinese archaeology: the discipline’s origins in antiquarian practices at least a millennium old;…
Prologue
Within China, Beijing's successful bid to host the 2008 Olympics has been celebrated as proof of the country's confident resurgence in world politics and culture. Chinese analysts have seized upon the Olympic Movement's stated universalistic aim of ‘promoting a peaceful society concerned with the preservation of human dignity’ to underline the benignity of China's own ‘peaceful rise’; to assert that China's new power and influence will be a force…
The Uses of Foreigners in Mao-Era China
This paper focuses on the inner workings of Mao-era China's ‘foreign affairs’ system ( waishi xitong ): the complex, comprehensive web of bureaucracy woven after 1949 to monitor and control Chinese contact with the outside world. It explores one of the channels along which the People's Republic between 1949 and 1976 tried to project international, soft-power messages beyond conventional diplomatic channels: the inviting of so-called ‘foreign gues…
Undesired Outcomes
This article will explore the evolution of China's border policy through the 1950s and 1960s. Drawing on newly available archival sources and recent secondary literature, it will argue that during the early Cold War, the PRC leadership lacked a clear sense of the concept of national sovereignty, and often attempted to use territorial negotiations with China's neighbours to bargain for broader foreign policy objectives. The article will also exami…
The Great Wall
Finding a Place
The political, economic and social changes experienced by China over the past decade have been mirrored by transformations in the literary realm. Writers, editors, critics and readers have contended with the acceleration of commercialisation, the rise of the Internet, and the Communist Party's subtly changing attitude to creative freedom. This essay examines the creative responses of three critically acclaimed generations of novelists - born betw…
The Great Wall
Prologue
Within China, Beijing's successful bid to host the 2008 Olympics has been celebrated as proof of the country's confident resurgence in world politics and culture. Chinese analysts have seized upon the Olympic Movement's stated universalistic aim of ‘promoting a peaceful society concerned with the preservation of human dignity’ to underline the benignity of China's own ‘peaceful rise’; to assert that China's new power and influence will be a force…
"Pointing to New Clarity with New Perplexity" The 2011 Newman Prize Lecture
SPECIAL SECTION Han Shaogong (b.1953) is one of contemporary China's most critically acclaimed novelists, celebrated for his linguistically sophisticated and inventive novels and essays of modern China. More biographical information is included in Julia Lovell's essay {page 25). LadiesandGentlemen, Itisa great honor for metobeherereceivingencouragement from thejurors ontheselectioncommittee andaccepting thesecondNewman PrizeforChineseLiterature. …
Dropped off the Map
u UJ Q C O Io X a. Han with nality, Shaogong exceptional human (b. perspectives artistry 1953)intertwines, and of origithe withexceptional artistry and originality ,humanperspectives of the localandtheglobal, andhiscareer exemplifies thecreative revolution thathas takenplacein Chinesewriting since1976.Han's representativework , A Dictionary ofMaqiao, is tobe commendedforthehumorand humanity of its storytelling; for itsunsentimental dedication to …
Beginning (End) 归元(归完)
Editorial note: From A Dictionary ofMaqiao (slightly revised), copyright©2003 by Columbia University Press. Reprinted by permission of CUP and HarperCollins Australia. Fofe a review of ADictionary of■ pag^o,seefte September 1 In nounced the Maqiao same wan dialect, as in the Mandarin) the word word for for is "beginning" pronounced "end"(pronounced waninMandarin) is pronounced the same as the word for"beginning" {yuan). Two temporal extremes are …
Finding a Place
The political, economic and social changes experienced by China over the past decade have been mirrored by transformations in the literary realm. Writers, editors, critics and readers have contended with the acceleration of commercialisation, the rise of the Internet, and the Communist Party's subtly changing attitude to creative freedom. This essay examines the creative responses of three critically acclaimed generations of novelists - born betw…
Undesired Outcomes
This article will explore the evolution of China's border policy through the 1950s and 1960s. Drawing on newly available archival sources and recent secondary literature, it will argue that during the early Cold War, the PRC leadership lacked a clear sense of the concept of national sovereignty, and often attempted to use territorial negotiations with China's neighbours to bargain for broader foreign policy objectives. The article will also exami…
The Uses of Foreigners in Mao-Era China
This paper focuses on the inner workings of Mao-era China's ‘foreign affairs’ system ( waishi xitong ): the complex, comprehensive web of bureaucracy woven after 1949 to monitor and control Chinese contact with the outside world. It explores one of the channels along which the People's Republic between 1949 and 1976 tried to project international, soft-power messages beyond conventional diplomatic channels: the inviting of so-called ‘foreign gues…
From Beijing to Palestine
This article traces the intellectual evolution of Zhang Chengzhi (b. 1948), a contemporary Chinese poet, novelist, essayist, archaeologist, and ethnographer, from Mao-era radicalism to Islamic internationalism. Allegedly the inventor of the term "Red Guard" in the context of the Cultural Revolution, he has remained an unapologetic defender of Mao and of the "Red Guard spirit" since the 1960s. In 1987, meanwhile, Zhang converted to an impoverished…
The Politics of Cultural Capital
Lucien Bianco. La récidive
For the best part of a century, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has looked to the Soviet Union, in turn worshipfully, beseechingly, loathingly, and then anxiously. Between the 1920s and the 1940s, Chinese Communists sought practical assistance and ideological guidance in making revolution. During the 1950s, they requested—and received—vast transfers of material and technical aid, including the rudiments of an atom bomb. Across the 1960s and 197…
Maoism
The Sanxingdui Site
The Sanxingdui site is a Neolithic and early Bronze Age site in the Sichuan Basin and home to a civilisation unrecorded in Chinese historical sources. Propelled to national prominence by the discovery of extraordinary bronze artefacts between 1986 and 2021, Sanxingdui is a distinctive case study of how field archaeology in a regional setting has been carried out and interpreted, and how it fits into the practice of Chinese archaeology. This chapt…
Copyright Page
Zeng Zhaoyu, Nanjing Museum, and the Politics of Museums in Early Mao-Era China
During the Mao era (1949–1976), Chinese museums used a Marxist framework to interpret unearthed cultural relics. This chapter uses documents from the Nanjing Museum in the Jiangsu Provincial Archive to explore one case study of this process. It develops an intellectual and professional biography of Zeng Zhaoyu (1909–1964), one of China’s first female archaeologists and museum directors. Born into a declining gentry family, Zeng studied for a mast…
Public Archaeology in China between the Late Qing and Republican Periods
The opening of China to the West after the First Opium War (1839–1842) ushered in two major changes in Chinese intellectual life: the widespread introduction of Western knowledge and the development of a new medium of communication, a modern press. The latter became the principal medium for the dissemination of Western learning in China and also a channel for public opinion in Chinese intellectual circles. Around the same time, in the latter part…
The Oxford Handbook of the History and Practice of Chinese Archaeology
This volume focuses on the history and practice of archaeology in the Sinophere (China and Taiwan). It brings together 48 chapters by a diverse community of international scholars (archaeologists, historians, heritage specialists, and museum professionals) from Asia, Europe, and North America. The chapters cover many of the most significant issues in Chinese archaeology: the discipline’s origins in antiquarian practices at least a millennium old;…
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