Helena Lopes is a historian of modern China and global history. Her research focuses on the international, political, and social history of the Second World War and the early post-war period in South China, including imperialism(s), anti-imperialism, and decolonisation, as well as experiences of movement, displacement and refugees.
She is also interested in histories of Chinese migration more broadly, in histories of Portuguese and Welsh communities in twentieth-century East Asia, and in Chinese/Sinophone cinemas. She is the author of Neutrality and Collaboration in South China: Macau during the Second World War (Cambridge University Press, 2023). She holds a DPhil in History from the University of Oxford and held lectureships at the University of Oxford and the University of Bristol. At Bristol, she also worked with the Historical Photographs of China Project as Senior Research Associate in the History of Hong Kong and she was a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow in 2020-23.