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Harriet Evans has written extensively on the politics of gender and sexuality in China, and on political posters and visual culture of the Mao era. She is currently completing Beijing from Below, an oral history of everyday life since the 1950s in a poor neighbourhood of central Beijing, and has just finished a Leverhulme Trust funded 3-year research project on ‘Conflicts in Culture: Localities and Heritage in Southwest China.’ She is Trustee of the London-based The Rights Practice and works with lawyers representing women seeking asylum in the UK.
Expertise
Gender and sexuality; feminist movements of the twentieth century; political posters, visual culture and legacies of the Mao era; oral history, memory and urban neighbourhood life; localities, cultural transmission and gendered contestations of heritage