Awards

• Long-listed for Cundill Prize 2012 (UK)
• Long-listed for The Orwell Prize 2012 (UK)

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A gripping read as well as an important one -- Rana Mitter * Guardian * Lively, erudite and meticulously researched * Literary Review * An important reminder of how the memory of the Opium War continues to cast a dark shadow * Sunday Times *

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Julia Lovell teaches modern Chinese history at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is the author of The Opium War, The Great Wall: China Against the World and The Politics of Cultural Capital: China’s Quest for a Nobel Prize in Literature and writes on China for The Guardian, Independent and The Times Literary Supplement. Her many translations of modern Chinese fiction include Lu Xun’s The Real Story of Ah-Q, and Other Tales of China.

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