Henrietta Harrison
Biographic Data
| ID | 974916 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Henrietta Harrison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Henrietta |
| FAMILY NAME | Harrison |
| SIGNATURE | HARRISON H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Chinese Doctor in Eighteenth-Century Naples and the Practice of Pulse Diagnosis
Diagnosing a patient on the basis of their pulse alone is an impressive demonstration of medical ability for which early modern Chinese doctors were famous. This article looks at the early history of Chinese medicine in Europe by examining the encounter between Xu Shizhi, who travelled to Naples to study for the Catholic priesthood but became a sensation as a doctor, and Domenico Cirillo, a prominent physician who met him through a patient and be…
The Stauntons of Galway in China
George Leonard Staunton, who travelled on the first British embassy to China in 1793, and his son George Thomas Staunton, who translated the Chinese legal code into English, are well-known figures in the history of China. Their British identity was constructed by George Thomas to conceal the family's Irish Catholic background, but in fact George Leonard used that background for the benefit of an imperial career that propelled him from Galway to t…
Mark Gamsa. Harbin
Journal Article Mark Gamsa. Harbin: A Cross-Cultural Biography. Get access Mark Gamsa. Harbin: A Cross-Cultural Biography. Toronto, CA: University of Toronto Press, 2020. Pp. 394. Paper $42.95. Henrietta Harrison Henrietta Harrison University of Oxford, England Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 129, Issue 2, June 2024, Pages 800–8…
State and Family in China
Naples, China and the Cosmos
This paper examines the correspondence of Li Zibiao (1760–1826), a Chinese Catholic priest trained in Naples who worked as a missionary in North China. Whereas existing studies of Chinese theology mainly focus on contextualisation, Li responded to persecution by thinking in global terms and de-emphasising differences between Europe and China. Using developments in casuistry and the moral theology associated with Alphonso de Liguori he was able to…
The Perils of Interpreting
A fascinating history of China’s relations with the West—told through the lives of two eighteenth-century translators The 1793 British embassy to China, which led to Lord George Macartney’s fraught encounter with the Qianlong emperor, has often been viewed as a clash of cultures fueled by the East’s lack of interest in the West. In The Perils of Interpreting , Henrietta Harrison presents a more nuanced picture, ingeniously shifting the historical…
Perils of Interpreting
The Board of Rites and the Making of Qing China, by Macabe Keliher
Historians who do not work on China looking only at the title might not immediately see the importance of a book about the early history of a government institution in charge of rituals, but that would be a mistake. For historians of the Qing dynasty, which ruled China from 1644 to 1911, this is one of those wonderful books that says something that the moment you read it you know is completely obvious but somehow no one has seen before: that the …
The Great Exodus from China
Global Entanglements of a Man who Never Traveled
Patrick Fuliang Shan. Yuan Shikai
Yuan Shikai is one of the most important and complex figures in China’s twentieth-century history, and Patrick Fuliang Shan’s Yuan Shikai: A Reappraisal is the first full biography of him in English since Jerome Ch’en’s 1961 Yuan Shih-k’ai (written using the former Wade-Giles romanization system, hence the different spelling of his name). Yuan was a high-ranking Qing official who became president of China after the 1911 Revolution overthrew the Q…
A Faithful Interpreter? Li Zibiao and the 1793 Macartney Embassy to China
This paper is about the interpreter of the first British embassy to China. Li Zibiao was a Chinese Catholic priest who Lord Macartney recruited in Europe and brought with him to China. This account of his participation in the embassy aims to help us understand the role of the interpreter in intercultural negotiations in the late 18th century. Interpreting is something we tend to think of as invisible, but in these negotiations, where only a singl…
Introduction
The history of early modern foreign relations is undergoing radical conceptual and methodological change. Research on European diplomatic history has overcome the traditional state-centred view tha
Chinese and British Diplomatic Gifts in the Macartney Embassy of 1793
This paper looks at the choice, reception and afterlife of both the Chinese and the British gifts given during Britain’s first embassy to China. Earlier studies have tended to fault the Qing court for understanding the gifts they received as tribute and failing to appreciate the scientific items given by the British. However, gift-giving was a highly charged political issue in the domestic politics of both countries at this time and the terms in …
Delia Davin (1944-2016)
Delia Davin will be remembered by scholars above all for the book she wrote in the 1970s on the changes wrought by the Communist Party on women’s lives in the early years of People’s Republic of China. Like many of the best scholarly works, this book was the expression of things that Davin cared about at a very deep level, in this case the position of women in society and the impact of socialism in China. Davin’s appreciation of the tension betwe…
The Qianlong Emperor’s Letter to George III and the Early-Twentieth-Century Origins of Ideas about Traditional China’s Foreign Relations
This article examines the famous edict in which the Qianlong emperor responded to the British embassy led by Lord Macartney to China in 1793, which has often been interpreted as a symbol of the Qing dynasty’s ignorance and narrow-mindedness. An examination of a wider range of archival documents suggests that the quotation does not reflect the Qianlong emperor’s response to the British embassy, which was primarily to see it as a security threat, b…
Sherman Cochran and Andrew Hsieh. The Lius of Shanghai
This unusual but immensely readable book by Sherman Cochran and Andrew Hsieh is a study of the family correspondence of Liu Hongsheng (1888–1956), one of modern China's most famous entrepreneurs. The work is animated by questions of business history, especially the issue of how the internal dynamics of a Chinese family enterprise worked, but it is written as a family history in which we get to know Liu, his wife, and their twelve children during …
The Missionary's Curse and Other Tales from a Chinese Catholic Village
The Missionary's Curse tells the story of a Shanxi village that has been Catholic since the seventeenth century and that connects its history to that of China and of the globalizing Catholic Church. It is structured round the folktales that the villagers tell about their past. The story begins with merchants and peasants who adopt Catholic rituals and teachings for their own purposes, and then find themselves in conflict with newly arrived Italia…
The Missionary's Curse and Other Tales from a Chinese Catholic Village
The Missionary’s Curse tells the story of a Chinese village that has been Catholic since the seventeenth century, drawing direct connections between its history, the globalizing church, and the nation. Harrison recounts the popular folk tales of merchants and peasants who once adopted Catholic rituals and teachings for their own purposes, only to find themselves in conflict with the orthodoxy of Franciscan missionaries arriving from Italy. The vi…
Rethinking Missionaries and Medicine in China
This paper uses the cult of Assunta Pallotta, an Italian Catholic nun who died in a north China village in 1905, to critique the existing literature on missionary medicine in China. She was recognized as holy because of the fragrance that accompanied her death, and later the incorrupt state of her body, and her relics were promoted as a source of healing by the Catholic mission hospital, absorbed into local folk medicine, and are still in use tod…
British Imperialism, French charity and the changing behaviour of Italian Franciscan missionaries in Shanxi Province, 1800–1850
Prior to the Opium War the Italian missionaries in Shanxi were dependent on the local Chinese population both for their safety and their funding. This meant that only missionaries who were willing to conform to Chinese customs could succeed and thus it was impossible to implement the rulings against various Chinese customs made by the papacy in the eighteenth century. The treaties that followed the war greatly reduced the penalties on missionarie…
Dilemmas of Victory
A Penny for the Little Chinese”
“I don't have any money ... I have a rabbit and I could sell it, but ... ” Tears rose in the little boy's eyes
Christian Heretics in Late Imperial China
Clothing and Power on the Periphery of Empire
Research Article| May 01 2003 Clothing and Power on the Periphery of Empire: The Costumes of the Indigenous People of Taiwan Henrietta Harrison Henrietta Harrison Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2003) 11 (2): 331–360. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-11-2-331 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Henrietta Harrison; Clothing and Power on the Peripher…
A Penny for the Little Chinese”
“I don't have any money ... I have a rabbit and I could sell it, but ... ” Tears rose in the little boy's eyes
Clothing and Power on the Periphery of Empire
Research Article| May 01 2003 Clothing and Power on the Periphery of Empire: The Costumes of the Indigenous People of Taiwan Henrietta Harrison Henrietta Harrison Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2003) 11 (2): 331–360. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-11-2-331 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Henrietta Harrison; Clothing and Power on the Peripher…
The Qianlong Emperor’s Letter to George III and the Early-Twentieth-Century Origins of Ideas about Traditional China’s Foreign Relations
This article examines the famous edict in which the Qianlong emperor responded to the British embassy led by Lord Macartney to China in 1793, which has often been interpreted as a symbol of the Qing dynasty’s ignorance and narrow-mindedness. An examination of a wider range of archival documents suggests that the quotation does not reflect the Qianlong emperor’s response to the British embassy, which was primarily to see it as a security threat, b…
A Faithful Interpreter? Li Zibiao and the 1793 Macartney Embassy to China
This paper is about the interpreter of the first British embassy to China. Li Zibiao was a Chinese Catholic priest who Lord Macartney recruited in Europe and brought with him to China. This account of his participation in the embassy aims to help us understand the role of the interpreter in intercultural negotiations in the late 18th century. Interpreting is something we tend to think of as invisible, but in these negotiations, where only a singl…
Introduction
The history of early modern foreign relations is undergoing radical conceptual and methodological change. Research on European diplomatic history has overcome the traditional state-centred view tha
British Imperialism, French charity and the changing behaviour of Italian Franciscan missionaries in Shanxi Province, 1800–1850
Prior to the Opium War the Italian missionaries in Shanxi were dependent on the local Chinese population both for their safety and their funding. This meant that only missionaries who were willing to conform to Chinese customs could succeed and thus it was impossible to implement the rulings against various Chinese customs made by the papacy in the eighteenth century. The treaties that followed the war greatly reduced the penalties on missionarie…
Martyrs and Militarism in Early Republican China
(1998). Martyrs and Militarism in Early Republican China. Twentieth-Century China: Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 41-70
The Making of the Republican Citizen
What does it mean to be Chinese? How did the major political events of the early 20th century affect the everyday lives of ordinary people in China? This book uses a wealth of new sources, including newspapers, memoirs, interviews, and photographs, to look at the political history of the period and to understand the ways in which politics intersected with the thoughts and feelings of ordinary people. To be a modern citizen of the Chinese republic…
Children's Literature in China
In Search of Chinese Democracy
Reconstructing Twentieth-Century China
Clothing and Power on the Periphery of Empire
Research Article| May 01 2003 Clothing and Power on the Periphery of Empire: The Costumes of the Indigenous People of Taiwan Henrietta Harrison Henrietta Harrison Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2003) 11 (2): 331–360. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-11-2-331 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Henrietta Harrison; Clothing and Power on the Peripher…
Christian Heretics in Late Imperial China
A Penny for the Little Chinese”
“I don't have any money ... I have a rabbit and I could sell it, but ... ” Tears rose in the little boy's eyes
Dilemmas of Victory
British Imperialism, French charity and the changing behaviour of Italian Franciscan missionaries in Shanxi Province, 1800–1850
Prior to the Opium War the Italian missionaries in Shanxi were dependent on the local Chinese population both for their safety and their funding. This meant that only missionaries who were willing to conform to Chinese customs could succeed and thus it was impossible to implement the rulings against various Chinese customs made by the papacy in the eighteenth century. The treaties that followed the war greatly reduced the penalties on missionarie…
Rethinking Missionaries and Medicine in China
This paper uses the cult of Assunta Pallotta, an Italian Catholic nun who died in a north China village in 1905, to critique the existing literature on missionary medicine in China. She was recognized as holy because of the fragrance that accompanied her death, and later the incorrupt state of her body, and her relics were promoted as a source of healing by the Catholic mission hospital, absorbed into local folk medicine, and are still in use tod…
The Missionary's Curse and Other Tales from a Chinese Catholic Village
The Missionary's Curse tells the story of a Shanxi village that has been Catholic since the seventeenth century and that connects its history to that of China and of the globalizing Catholic Church. It is structured round the folktales that the villagers tell about their past. The story begins with merchants and peasants who adopt Catholic rituals and teachings for their own purposes, and then find themselves in conflict with newly arrived Italia…
The Missionary's Curse and Other Tales from a Chinese Catholic Village
The Missionary’s Curse tells the story of a Chinese village that has been Catholic since the seventeenth century, drawing direct connections between its history, the globalizing church, and the nation. Harrison recounts the popular folk tales of merchants and peasants who once adopted Catholic rituals and teachings for their own purposes, only to find themselves in conflict with the orthodoxy of Franciscan missionaries arriving from Italy. The vi…
Sherman Cochran and Andrew Hsieh. The Lius of Shanghai
This unusual but immensely readable book by Sherman Cochran and Andrew Hsieh is a study of the family correspondence of Liu Hongsheng (1888–1956), one of modern China's most famous entrepreneurs. The work is animated by questions of business history, especially the issue of how the internal dynamics of a Chinese family enterprise worked, but it is written as a family history in which we get to know Liu, his wife, and their twelve children during …
The Qianlong Emperor’s Letter to George III and the Early-Twentieth-Century Origins of Ideas about Traditional China’s Foreign Relations
This article examines the famous edict in which the Qianlong emperor responded to the British embassy led by Lord Macartney to China in 1793, which has often been interpreted as a symbol of the Qing dynasty’s ignorance and narrow-mindedness. An examination of a wider range of archival documents suggests that the quotation does not reflect the Qianlong emperor’s response to the British embassy, which was primarily to see it as a security threat, b…
A Faithful Interpreter? Li Zibiao and the 1793 Macartney Embassy to China
This paper is about the interpreter of the first British embassy to China. Li Zibiao was a Chinese Catholic priest who Lord Macartney recruited in Europe and brought with him to China. This account of his participation in the embassy aims to help us understand the role of the interpreter in intercultural negotiations in the late 18th century. Interpreting is something we tend to think of as invisible, but in these negotiations, where only a singl…
Introduction
The history of early modern foreign relations is undergoing radical conceptual and methodological change. Research on European diplomatic history has overcome the traditional state-centred view tha
Chinese and British Diplomatic Gifts in the Macartney Embassy of 1793
This paper looks at the choice, reception and afterlife of both the Chinese and the British gifts given during Britain’s first embassy to China. Earlier studies have tended to fault the Qing court for understanding the gifts they received as tribute and failing to appreciate the scientific items given by the British. However, gift-giving was a highly charged political issue in the domestic politics of both countries at this time and the terms in …
Delia Davin (1944-2016)
Delia Davin will be remembered by scholars above all for the book she wrote in the 1970s on the changes wrought by the Communist Party on women’s lives in the early years of People’s Republic of China. Like many of the best scholarly works, this book was the expression of things that Davin cared about at a very deep level, in this case the position of women in society and the impact of socialism in China. Davin’s appreciation of the tension betwe…
Global Entanglements of a Man who Never Traveled
Patrick Fuliang Shan. Yuan Shikai
Yuan Shikai is one of the most important and complex figures in China’s twentieth-century history, and Patrick Fuliang Shan’s Yuan Shikai: A Reappraisal is the first full biography of him in English since Jerome Ch’en’s 1961 Yuan Shih-k’ai (written using the former Wade-Giles romanization system, hence the different spelling of his name). Yuan was a high-ranking Qing official who became president of China after the 1911 Revolution overthrew the Q…
The Perils of Interpreting
A fascinating history of China’s relations with the West—told through the lives of two eighteenth-century translators The 1793 British embassy to China, which led to Lord George Macartney’s fraught encounter with the Qianlong emperor, has often been viewed as a clash of cultures fueled by the East’s lack of interest in the West. In The Perils of Interpreting , Henrietta Harrison presents a more nuanced picture, ingeniously shifting the historical…
Perils of Interpreting
The Board of Rites and the Making of Qing China, by Macabe Keliher
Historians who do not work on China looking only at the title might not immediately see the importance of a book about the early history of a government institution in charge of rituals, but that would be a mistake. For historians of the Qing dynasty, which ruled China from 1644 to 1911, this is one of those wonderful books that says something that the moment you read it you know is completely obvious but somehow no one has seen before: that the …
The Great Exodus from China
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