Kang Liu, Professor of Asian and African Languages and Literature

My research interests: Marxism and aesthetics, globalization, ideologies, cultural politics and media in China

Contact Info:

Office Location:	2204 Erwin Rd Room 210, Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708
Email Address:

Teaching (Fall 2025):

• AMES 435S.01, CHINESE MEDIA AND POP CULTURE Synopsis

  Trent 223B, MW 03:05 PM-04:20 PM

  (also cross-listed as ISS 435S.01, POLSCI 435S.01)

• CHINESE 455.01, MODERN CHINESE CULTURE Synopsis

  Trent 038B, MW 04:40 PM-05:55 PM

Office Hours:

Teaching at DKU Fall 15

Education:

Ph.D.	University of Wisconsin, Madison	1989
M.A.	University of Wisconsin, Madison	1984
B.A.	Nanjing University (China)	1982

Specialties:

Chinese

Research Interests:

My research interests: Marxism and aesthetics, globalization, ideologies, cultural politics and media in China

Keywords:

History

Curriculum Vitae

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Kang, L, Chinese Exceptionalism, in The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Language and Culture (March, 2024), pp. 113-125, Routledge [doi]
2. Liu, K; Wei, D, Americanization of French Theory and the Rise of “Chinese Postism”, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, vol. 28 no. 1 (January, 2024), pp. 20-29 [doi]  [abs]
3. Liu, K, Western Theory’s Chinese Transformation: Postscript, Clcweb Comparative Literature and Culture, vol. 25 no. 3 Special Issue (December, 2023) [doi]
4. Liu, K, Introduction: China question of western theory, Clcweb Comparative Literature and Culture, vol. 22 no. 5 (December, 2020), pp. 1-5 [doi]  [abs]
5. Liu, K, Introduction: Rethinking critical theory and maoism, Clcweb Comparative Literature and Culture, vol. 20 no. 3 (September, 2018) [doi]  [abs]