Research Fellowship for Professor Kitson
The English programme is very pleased to announce that Professor Peter Kitson has been awarded one of the Leverhulme Trust's Major Research Fellowships in the Humanities and Social Sciences (2010-2013). These highly competitive awards are made "to enable well-established and distinguished researchers in the disciplines of the Humanities and Social Sciences to devote themselves to a single research project of outstanding originality and significance, capable of completion within two or three years."
The award (£85,310) is for a project entitled "Britain, China and the Far East: representation and exchange, 1760-1845", which will study the representation of China and the Far East from the late 18th century to the first Opium War of 1839-42, and of the cultural exchanges, knowledge creation and transfers between China and Britain.
The research will cover the historical and cultural origins in the Romantic period of the contemporary problematic relationship of China to the West, and reassess the process by which Britain culturally absorbed the Qing Empire into her 'informal empire' leading to the Opium Trade and Wars and their ensuing mass Chinese addictions.
Posted: 6 January 2010
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