China's Hidden Century

Jessica Harrison-Hall is curator of the exhibition China's Hidden Century, head of the China Section, and curator of the Sir Percival David Collections and of Chinese Decorative Arts and Ceramics at the British Museum. She is author of China: A History in Objects. Julia Lovell is professor of modern China 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. Mei Mei Rado is Assistant Professor of History of Dress, Textiles and Decorative Arts, Bard Graduate Center. Stephen R. Platt is Professor of Chinese History, University of Massachussetts, Amherst. Chia-ling Yang is Professor of Chinese Art, University of Edinburgh. Anne Gerritsen is Professor of History, University of Warwick. Jeffrey Wasserstrom is Chancellor's Professor of History, University of California, Irvine. Wenyuan Xin is Project Curator for the exhibition China's hidden century

"Superlative."- Laura Cummings (Observer) "[A] typically sumptuous catalogue."(Books & Boots) "A substantial tome: a coffee-table book that incorporates many more objects and artworks than the actual exhibition could fit."(China Books Review) "The exhibition catalogue's seven essays, edited by the scholars Jessica Harrison-Hall and Julia Lovell, are a guide to this re-reading of the past, threading the relics on display into a rich tapestry of what life entailed under the last century of Manchu reign."(Mekong Review) "[A] handsomely illustrated catalogue that includes essays from some of the foremost historians of nineteenth-century China."(Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide) "[A] fascinating, lavishly illustrated, exhibition book."(Lancet) "[A] resounding success in its documentation of the exhibition and in introducing recent scholarship on China's nineteenth century to a wider audience. . . The authoritative chapters, illustrations and representative bibliography will be a valuable guide to laypeople, students and scholars on the late Qing for years to come."(Sehepunkte) "A bold, ambitious and imaginative effort."(The Conversation)