Henrietta Harrison Explained

Henrietta Harrison
Nationality:	British
Alma Mater:	Newnham College, Cambridge Harvard University St Antony's College, Oxford
Thesis Title:	State ceremonies and political symbolism in China, 1911-1929
Thesis Year:	1996
Doctoral Advisor:	Glen Dudbridge & David Faure
Discipline:	History

Henrietta Katherine Harrison, (born 1967) is a British historian, sinologist, and academic. Since 2012, she has been Professor of Modern Chinese Studies at the University of Oxford. She was previously 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 at Harvard University (2006–2012).

Early life and education

Harrison was born in 1967 in London, England.^[1] She was educated at St Paul's Girls' School, an independent school in Hammersmith, London. She studied at Newnham College, Cambridge (BA 1989), Harvard University (MA 1992) and St Antony's College, Oxford (DPhil 1996). Her doctoral thesis was titled "State ceremonies and political symbolism in China, 1911-1929".^[2]

Academic career

She was 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).^[3] 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).^{[3] [4] [5]}

Harrison works mainly on the social and cultural history of China from the Qing through to the present, especially rural north China, links between transnational and local history, religion, diplomacy and revolution.

Honours and recognition

In 2014, Harrison was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.^[6]

Her book, The Perils of Interpreting, won the 2022 Kenshur Prize for best book in Eighteenth-Century Studies,^[7] and was shortlisted for the 2022 Cundill Prize and the 2023 Wolfson History Prize.^{[8] [9]}

Selected works

• Book: Harrison . Henrietta . The Making of the Republican Citizen: Political Ceremonies and Symbols in China, 1911-1929 . 2000 . Oxford University Press . Oxford . 978-0198295198.
• Book: Harrison, Henrietta . China: Inventing the Nation . Hodder Arnold . 2001 . 978-0340741337 . London.
• Book: Harrison, Henrietta . Natives of Formosa, British Reports of the Taiwan Indigenous People, 1650-1950 . Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines . 2001 . 978-9579976794 . Taipei.
• Book: Harrison . Henrietta . The Man Awakened from Dreams: One Man's Life in a North China Village, 1857-1942 . registration . 2005 . Stanford University Press . Palo Alto, CA . 978-0804750684.
• Book: Harrison . Henrietta . The Missionary's Curse and Other Tales from a Chinese Catholic Village . 2013 . University of California Press . Berkeley, CA . 978-0520273115.
• Book: Harrison, Henrietta . The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire . Princeton University Press . 2021 . 978-0691225456 . Princeton, NJ.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Harrison, Prof. Henrietta Katherine, (born 1967), Professor of Modern Chinese Studies, University of Oxford, since 2012; Fellow, Pembroke College, Oxford, since 2015 . . Oxford University Press . 6 September 2023 . en . 1 December 2022.
2. Web site: Harrison . Henrietta . State ceremonies and political symbolism in China, 1911-1929 . E-Thesis Online Service . The British Library Board . 6 September 2023 . 1996.
3. Web site: Harrison, Prof. Henrietta Katherine . . Oxford University Press . 26 October 2018 . 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U282252 . 1 December 2017 . 978-0-19-954088-4 .
4. Web site: Henrietta Harrison . Faculty of Oriental Studies . University of Oxford . 26 October 2018 . en.
5. Web site: Professor Henrietta Harrison . Pembroke College . University of Oxford . 26 October 2018 . en . 26 October 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181026105734/https://www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/fellows-staff/profiles/professor-henrietta-harrison . dead .
6. Web site: Professor Henrietta Harrison . The British Academy . 26 October 2018.
7. Web site: Kenshur Prize: Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies: Indiana University Bloomington . 2023-03-18 . Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies . en-US.
8. Web site: 2022-09-26 . US$75k Cundill History Prize shortlist announced . 2022-09-26 . Books+Publishing . en-AU.
9. Web site: The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire - The Wolfson History Prize shortlist 2023 . The Wolfson History Prize . 5 September 2023.