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Jonathan Howlett
Senior Lecturer in Chinese and Colonial History

Biography

BA (Bristol), MA (Bristol), MPhil (Oxford), PhD (Bristol)

Dr Jon Howlett is a Senior Lecturer in Chinese and Colonial History. He has published on a range of topics, including: the political and social history of the People’s Republic of China; Sino-British relations; the history of Shanghai; propaganda production; and decolonisation. 

Dr Howlett is a co-director of York’s Asia Research Network and is Regional Coordinator for East Asia. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and won a Vice Chancellor’s Teaching Award in 2020. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and has served as an elected council member of the British Association for Chinese Studies. 

He has held visiting scholarships at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, East China Normal University (Shanghai), Fudan University (Shanghai), Lund University and Zhejiang University (Hangzhou).

 

 

Contact details

Dr Jonathan Howlett
Vanbrugh College V/A/203A
Department of History
University of York
Heslington
York
YO10 5DD

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