Kang Liu, Professor of Asian and African Languages and Literature

Contact Info:

Teaching (Fall 2024):

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

  Trent 142, MW 03:05 PM-04:20 PM

• CHINESE 455.01, MODERN CHINESE CULTURE Synopsis

  Trent 142, MW 04:40 PM-05:55 PM

Office Hours:

On Fall Leave

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

Curriculum Vitae

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Liu, K, Introduction: China question of western theory, CLCWeb - Comparative Literature and Culture, vol. 22 no. 5 (December, 2020), pp. 1-5 [doi]  [abs].
2. Kang, L, A (Meta)commentary on Western Literary Theories in China: The Case of Jameson and Chinese Jamesonism, Modern Language Quarterly, vol. 79 no. 3 (September, 2018), pp. 323-340, Duke University Press [doi]  [abs].
3. Liu, K, Introduction: Rethinking critical theory and maoism, CLCWeb - Comparative Literature and Culture, vol. 20 no. 3 (September, 2018) [doi]  [abs].
4. Kang, L, Social Sciences, Humanities and Liberal Arts: China and the West, European Review, vol. 26 no. 2 (May, 2018), pp. 241-261, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi]  [abs].
5. Kang, L, Interests, Values, and Geopolitics: The Global Public Opinion on China, European Review, vol. 23 no. 2 (May, 2015), pp. 242-260, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi]  [abs].