Julia Lovell was born in 1975 and lectures in Chinese history and literature at Cambridge University, where she is one of the university’s young teachers. She has spent extended periods in China and has recently translated the prizewinning Chinese novel, A Dictionary of Maqiao. She writes on China for The Times, The Observer, The Economist, and The Times Literary Supplement. She lives in Cambridge and is married to the writer Robert MacFarlane.
