China’s hidden century

Jessica Harrison-Hall is curator of the exhibition China's hidden century and Head of the China Section, Curator of the Sir Percival David Collections, and of Chinese Decorative Arts and Ceramics at the British Museum. Her latest book China: A History in Objects (2017) is available in 6 languages internationally. Julia Lovell is Professor of Chinese History and Literature at Birkbeck, University of London. Her book The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China won the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature in 2012 and her book Maoism: A Global History won the 2019 Cundill History Prize. She is a regular contributor to the BBC and national press. Other contributors: Mei Mei Rado is Associate Curator of Chinese Textiles at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Stephen R. Platt is Professor of History, University of Massachusetts. Chia-ling Yang is Senior Lecturer in the History of Art, University of Edinburgh. Anne Gerritsen is Professor, History Department, University of Warwick and Chair of Asian Art, University of Leiden. Jeffrey Wasserstrom is Chancellor's Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. Wenyuan Xin is Project Curator for the exhibition China's hidden century.