HENRIOT, Christian

PERSONAL:

Male.

ADDRESSES:

Agent—c/o Author Mail, Cambridge University Press, 40 West Twentieth St., Seventh Floor, New York, NY 10011-4233.

CAREER:

Institute of East Asian Studies, Lumière-Lyon II University, Lyon, France, director.

WRITINGS:

(Compiler) La Femme en Asie orientale: Politique, société, littérature, Université Jean Moulin-Lyon III, Centre Rhonalpin de Recherche sur l'Extrême-orient Contemporain (Lyon, France), 1988.

Shanghai, 1927-1937: Élites locales et modernisation dans la Chine nationaliste, Editions de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris, France), 1991, translation by Noël Castelino published as Shanghai, 1927-1937: Municipal Power, Locality, and Modernization, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1993.

(With Shi Lu) La Réforme des entreprises en Chine: Les Industries shanghaiennes entre état et marché, L'Harmattan (Paris, France), 1996.

Belles de Shanghai: Prostitution et sexualité en Chine aux XIXe-XXe siècle, CNRS Editions (Paris, France), 1997, translation by Noël Castelino published as Prostitution and Sexuality in Shanghai: A Social History, 1849-1949, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 2001.

(With Zheng Zu'an and others) Atlas de Shanghai: Espaces et représentations de 1849 à nos jours, CNRS Editions (Paris, France), 1999.

(Editor, with Robert Bickers) New Frontiers: Imperialism's New Communities in East Asia, 1842-1953, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 2000.

(Editor, with Geneviève Dubois-Taine) Cities of the Pacific Rim: Diversity and Sustainability, PUCA (Paris, France), 2001.

(Editor, with Wen-hsin Yeh) In the Shadow of the Rising Sun: Shanghai under Japanese Occupation, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 2003.

SIDELIGHTS:

The director of the Institute of East Asian Studies in Lyon, France, Christian Henriot is a scholar who has focused considerable attention on China and, most specifically, the city of Shanghai. Several of his works have been translated into English, including Shanghai, 1927-1937: Municipal Power, Locality, and Modernization and Prostitution and Sexuality in Shanghai: A Social History, 1849-1949. Both books have been praised by critics for the author's extensive research. Although the history of Shanghai has received a great deal of attention by academics since the 1980s, Henriot's work is considered by critics to be among the most thorough and valuable. In a review of Shanghai, 1927-1937, Journal of Urban History contributor Kristin Stapleton asserted that "the author's research into the complex subject is outstanding compared to most previous Western scholarship on Chinese history."

Prostitution and Sexuality in Shanghai has drawn particular interest from critics for its thorough analysis of the role of prostitution in the social and economic history of Shanghai, a feat considered impressive because of the lack of written documentation on the subject. As Hanchao Lu observed in the Journal of Social History, "The merit of Henriot's book is that the author has nearly exhausted the materials currently available to scholars and has presented readers with a study that is richly clotted with details, insights, and sensitivities."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

American Historical Review, October, 1992, Mary Backus Rankin, review of Shanghai, 1927-1937: Élites locales et modernisation dans la Chine nationaliste, p. 1265.

Asian Affairs, October, 2001, J. E. Hoare, review of New Frontiers: Imperialism's New Communities in East Asia, 1842-1953, pp. 309-310.

China Quarterly, March, 1991, Delia Davin, review of La Femme en Asie orientale: Politique, société, littérature, p. 175; December, 1992, Rhoads Murphey, review of Shanghai, 1927-1937, p. 1171.

Choice, March, 1994, E. H. Kaplan, review of Shanghai, 1927-1937: Municipal Power, Locality, and Modernization, p. 1192; December, 2001, H. T. Wong, review of Prostitution and Sexuality in Shanghai: A Social History, 1849-1949, p. 738.

Economic History Review, November, 2001, David Clayton, review of New Frontiers, pp. 806-807.

Journal of Asian History, spring, 1995, Thomas D. Curran, review of Shanghai, 1927-1937, p. 97.

Journal of Asian Studies, May, 1994, Bryna Goodman, review of Shanghai, 1927-1937, p. 532.

Journal of Contemporary Asia, August, 1995, Gang Tian, review of Shanghai, 1927-1937, p. 431.

Journal of Social History, winter, 2002, Hanchao Lu, review of Prostitution and Sexuality in Shanghai, p. 469.

Journal of Urban History, September, 1998, Kristin Stapleton, review of Shanghai, 1927-1937, p. 768.

Journal of Women's History, spring, 2003, Pippa Holloway, "Regulation and the Nation: Comparative Perspectives on Prostitution and Public Policy," p. 202.

Modern China, April, 1996, Gail Hershatter, "A Response," p. 164.

Pacific Affairs, fall, 2001, Bill Sewell, review of New Frontiers, p. 413.

Times Higher Education Supplement, March 1, 2002, Harriet Evans, "China Life through a Courtesan's Mirror," p. 30.

Times Literary Supplement, February 14, 2003, Dina Temple-Raston, "A Century of Chinese Sex Sales," p. 32.*