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Paul Bevan
Paul Bevan is a writer, Sinologist, historian and literary translator. From 2020 to 2023, he worked as departmental lecturer in modern Chinese literature and culture at the University of Oxford. From 2018 to 2020, he was a Christensen fellow in Chinese painting at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. He is currently a research associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies. Paul’s most recent books are translations of Murder in the Maloo: A Tale of Old Shanghai (Earnshaw Books, 2024) and The Adventures of Ma Suzhen: An Heroic Woman Takes Revenge in Shanghai (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). He has written two monographs: A Modern Miscellany: Shanghai Cartoon Artists, Shao Xunmei’s Circle and the Travels of Jack Chen, 1926–1938 (Brill, 2015) and ‘Intoxicating Shanghai’: Modern Art and Literature in Pictorial Magazines during Shanghai’s Jazz Age (Brill, 2020). John A. Crespi’s review of Intoxicating Shanghai calls attention to the translations imbedded in the book: ‘Featured within the book’s densely informative analyses are translations of four modernist short stories. [These] in themselves contribute significantly to modern Chinese literary studies’.