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. 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].