Henrietta Katherine Harrison, (born 1967) is a British historian,

sinologist Sinology, or Chinese studies, is an academic discipline that focuses on the study of China primarily through Chinese philosophy, language, literature, culture and history and often refers to Western scholarship. Its origin "may be traced to the ex ...

, and academic.

Education and career

Henrietta Harrison was educated at St Paul's Girls' School, Hammersmith,

Newnham College, Cambridge Newnham College is a women's Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1871 by a group organising Lectures for Ladies, members of which included philosopher Henry Sid ...

(BA 1989),

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

(MA) and the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

(DPhil). She was formerly a junior research fellow at

St Anne's College, Oxford St Anne's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It was founded in 1879 and gained full college status in 1959. Originally a women's college, it has admitted men since 1979. It has some 450 undergraduate and 200 ...

(1996–1998), a lecturer in Chinese at the

University of Leeds , mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased , established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds , ...

(1999–2006), and a professor of history at

(2006–2012). Since 2012, she has been

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of Modern Chinese Studies at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

. She has also been a

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Pembroke College, Oxford Pembroke College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford, is located at Pembroke Square, Oxford. The college was founded in 1624 by King James I of England, using in part the endowment of merchant Thomas Tesdale, and was named after ...

since 2015, and was previously a Fellow of

St Cross College, Oxford St Cross College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1965, St Cross is an all-graduate college with gothic and traditional-style buildings on a central site in St Giles', just south of Pusey Street. It a ...

(2012–2015).

Honours and recognition

In 2014, Harrison was elected a

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(FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. Her book, ''The Perils of Interpreting'', was shortlisted for the 2022 Cundill Prize.

Selected works

* * * *Harrison, Henrietta (2021).
The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire.
' Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691225456

References

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