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Harriet Evans has written extensively on topics related to politics, gender, and sexuality in China, focusing on political posters and visual culture from the Mao era. She is currently completing a project that explores the oral history of everyday life in poor neighborhoods of central Beijing during the 1950s. Evans has recently finished a three-year research project funded by the Leverhulme Trust titled ‘Conflicts in Culture: Localities, Heritage in Southwest China.’ In addition, she serves as a trustee for the London-based Rights Practice, an organization that collaborates with lawyers representing women seeking asylum in the UK. Her expertise encompasses feminist movements in the twentieth century, political posters, the visual culture legacies of the Mao era, oral history, urban neighborhood life, and the cultural transmission and gendered contestations of heritage.
Department of Economics