Julia Lovell

Julia Lovell FBA (born 1975) is a British scholar, author, and translator whose non-fiction books focus on China. Lovell is professor of Modern Chinese History and Literature at Birkbeck, University of London. Her works on the Opium Wars (The Opium Wars: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China) and Maoism (Maoism: A Global History) were widely reviewed. Her translations include works by Lu Xun, Han Shaogong, Eileen Chang and others.