Kang Liu, Professor of Asian and African Languages and Literature

Contact Info:

Teaching (Spring 2026):

• CHINESE 456.02, CHINESE CULTURE AND SOCIETY Synopsis

  Trent 039A, MW 04:40 PM-05:55 PM

• AMES 456S.01, CHINESE CULTURE AND IDEOLOGY Synopsis

  Trent 039A, MW 03:05 PM-04:20 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. 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].