Paul Bevan, Christensen Fellow at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (2018-2020), has taught modern Chinese literature, art, and history at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and London. His first book, A Modern Miscellany, was published by Brill in 2015.

In Intoxicating Shanghai, Paul Bevan explores the work of a number of Chinese modernist artists and writers, examining the role played by pictorial magazines in the dissemination of their work, with a focus on 1934 - 'The Year of the Magazine'.