Dr. Julia Lovell, born in 1975, is a prize-winning translator who has also written on China for The Guardian

The Guardian

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, The Times (London), The Economist

The Economist

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, and The Times Literary Supplement

The Times Literary Supplement

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Her translations include works by Lu Xun

Lu Xun

Lu Xun or Lu Hsün , was the pen name of Zhou Shuren , one of the major Chinese writers of the 20th century. Considered by many to be the leading figure of modern Chinese literature, he wrote in baihua as well as classical Chinese...

, Han Shaogong

Han Shaogong

Han Shaogong is a Chinese novelist and fictionist.Han was born in Hunan, China. While relying on traditional Chinese culture, in particular Chinese mythology, folklore, Taoism and Buddhism as source of inspiration, he also borrows freely from Western literary techniques...

, Eileen Chang

Eileen Chang

Eileen Chang was a Chinese writer. Her most famous works include Lust, Caution and Love in a Fallen City....

 and Zhu Wen

Zhu Wen

Emperor Taizu of Later Liang , personal name Zhu Quanzhong , né Zhu Wen , name later changed to Zhu Huang , nickname Zhu San , was a Jiedushi at the end of the Chinese dynasty Tang Dynasty, who previously served as a general under the major agrarian rebel Huang Chao's...

. She has published two non-fiction works, 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). She is lecturer of modern Chinese history and literature at Birkbeck, University of London

Birkbeck, University of London

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, where her research has been focused principally on the relationship between culture (specifically, literature, architecture, historiography and sport) and modern Chinese nation-building.