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Helena F.S. Lopes is a historian of modern China and its global interactions. She holds a DPhil in History from St Antony’s College, Oxford, and two MA degrees from SOAS, University of London. She served as a Departmental Lecturer in Modern East Asian History at the University of Oxford’s Faculty of History and Merton College from 2017 to 2019. Currently, she is an Associate Member of these institutions and contributes to interdisciplinary research through the International History of East Asia Seminar (Oxford China Centre, since 2016) and the Colonial Ports and Global History network at TORCH (joined in 2019).
Her research focuses on overlooked global encounters, including neutrality, collaboration, and imperialism during the Second World War in East Asia (1937–1945), with a special emphasis on Macau and Hong Kong. She has explored Chinese wartime diplomacy, refugee crises, and transnational collaboration using multilingual sources. Additional research interests include Sinophone cinema, Portuguese Eurasian communities, and school relocations during wartime.
Teaching responsibilities include courses on China since 1900, modern Chinese historiography, and global history frameworks (1930–2003 and 1750–1930). She also teaches disciplinary methods in historical studies.
While no specific scientific awards or student advisees are listed, her work bridges colonial and global history, emphasizing interdisciplinary collaboration. Current projects include a monograph on Macau’s wartime neutrality and a comparative study of Macau and Hong Kong’s refugee responses.
