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Xi LIU (PhD HKU) is an Associate Professor at Dept. of China Studies, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. Her main research fields are modern Chinese literature and Chinese women's studies. Her research articles appeared in top-ranked journals on Chinese literary and gender studies including Literary Review, Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, Journal of Chinese Women's Studies and Frontiers of Literary Studies in China. She is the author of Discourse and Beyond: Gender Representation and Subject Construction in 100 Years of Chinese Literature (Nanjing University Press, 2021).

She has been teaching modules on Chinese literature, theatre and film to undergraduate and postgraduate students. Currently as the principal supervisor she is supervising three PhD students who work on contemporary Chinese literature. (No PhD recruitment plan for 2023-24)

刘希，香港大学博士，澳门尼威斯人网站8311中国研究系副教授。主要研究领域为中国现当代文学和妇女/性别研究，著有《话语内外：百年中国文学中的性别再现和主体塑造》。

ORCID ID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-5835

Qualifications
- PhD, Comparative Literature, The University of Hong Kong 2013
- MA, Chinese Language & Literature, Fudan University 2008
- BA, Chinese Language & Literature, Nanjing University 2005
Experience
- Associate Professor, Dept. of China Studies, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University -2022 to present
- Assistant Professor, Dept. of China Studies, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University - 2016 to 2022
- Part-time Lecturer, Dept. of Comparative Literature, the University of Hong Kong - 2016
- Project Supervisor for ”Master of Arts in Chinese Literature”, School of Arts and Social Sciences, The Open University of Hong Kong - 2014 to 2015
- Research Associate, Dept. of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong - 2013 to 2015
Research interests
- Cultural and ethnographic studies of gender and class
- Science, technology and subjectivity in literature
- Feminist pedagogy and practices in Chinese higher education
- Socialist feminism, Post-Marxist feminism, Posthuman feminism
Articles
- Yu Xuying, Liu Xi "The incomplete writing back: Imagining ocean, nation and the world in late Qing Chinese science fiction", Under review
- Troy Chen, Xianwen Kuang, Liu Xi* "Rural/Urban Divide, Class and Gender in Everyday Life: A study of the identity construction and meaning-making of female domestic workers in contemporary China", Under Review
- Danxue Zhou, Liu Xi* "Counter-discourses to intersectional inequalities and urban modernity: Representing Subaltern Women in Post-2000s Chinese Science Fiction", Under Review
- Danxue Zhou, Liu Xi "Spatial Disparity and Social Inequalities: Interrogating Urbanization in Post-2000s Chinese Science Fiction", Under Review
- Penn Ip*, Yu Zhang, Xi Liu* “Exploring COVID-19 Impacts on Lower Working-Class Women Dwelling in the Workers’ New Villages in Shanghai: An Empirical Research of Socialist Social Reproduction System at Time of Global Pandemic”, Under Review
- Liu Xi, Yu Xuying 2023 "New view of subjectivity and gender based on new ontology: A Study of the genealogy of posthuman-feminism", Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art. no2, forthcoming
- Liu Xi. 2022. Stories on Sexual Violence as “Thought Experiments”: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction as an Example. SFRA Review. vol,52. no.3, pp.118-128
- Liu Xi 2021 "后结构理论与中国女性主义批评——以社会主义文化研究中的妇女"主体性"为中心" (Post-structural Theories and Feminist Cultural Criticism in China: On the theorization of women's "subjectivity in the studies of Socialist China), Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, no.1, pp.179-190
- Liu Xi 2021"十七年话剧文学中的妇女解放研究 (Representing Women's Liberation in the '17 Years' Chinese Theatre"), Journal of North University of China (Social Sciences Edition), no.5, pp.93-99
- Liu Xi 2020 "问题化“ 新女性”: “ 五四” 女性文学中性別二元论和本质论的反抗性话语" (Problematizing “New Women”: Counter Discourses to Sex Binarism and Essentialism in “May Fourth” Women’s Literature), Journal of Macao Polytechnic Institute (Humanities and Social Sciences Edition), no.4.pp.147-157
- Liu Xi 2019 "当代中国科幻中的科技,性别和"赛博格"——以《荒潮》为例" (Science, Gender and Cyborg in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction: A Case Study of The Waste Tide), Literary Review, no. 3, pp.215-223
- Liu Xi 2017 ‘’对"妇女解放"的认知——1949-1964年三份妇联刊物中底层妇女自述初探" (Perceptions of Women’s Liberation: A Study of Personal Narratives of Subaltern Women in Three Women’s Federations ’Publications"，1949-1964‘’, Journal of Chinese Women's Studies, no. 6, pp.58-71
- Liu Xi; Hui W. 2017 '底层如何表述自澳门尼威斯人网站8311?——以《新中国妇女》中工农妇女的"劳动"自述为例"(How Do Subalterns Represent Themselves?), Journal of China Women’s University, no. 6, pp. 36-43
- Liu Xi 2017 ‘底层妇女的身体呈现——以三部当代女性小说为例" (Subaltern Females and Sexual Discourses in Three Contemporary Chinese Female-Authored Fictions), Journal of Shanxi Normal University (Social Sciences Edition), no.2. pp. 99-106.
- Liu Xi 2016 'Republican Lens: Gender, Visuality, and Experience in the Early Chinese Periodical Press', China Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Greater China. 41(1):357.
- Liu Xi 2013 "现代性话语中的保姆故事'(Representation of female domestic workers in contemporary discourses of modernity), Journal of Chinese Women's Studies, vol. , no. 4, pp. 95-102
- Liu Xi 2012 "毛泽东时代女性的主体性问题——以韦君宜小说《女人》为例( Female Subjectivity in Mao's Era: From Women by Wei Junyi), Journal of Chinese Women's Studies, vol. , no. 4, pp. 75-81
- Liu Xi 2012 'The Representation of Rural Migrant Women and the Discourse of Modernity in Contemporary China----A Study of Zhang Kangkang's Novel Zhima', Frontiers of Literary Studies in China, vol. , no. 4, pp. 511-525
- Liu Xi 2012 “穆旦诗歌中的"智慧"(”'Wisdom in Mu Dan's poetry"), Theory Horizon, no. 4, pp.125-127
Books, monographs, compilations and manuals
- Liu Xi, “The Languages of Liberation”: Women’s Autobiographical Narratives in Early Maoist China:1949-1964 (manuscript in preparation)
- Troy Zhen Chen, Jiawen Han, Xianwen Kuang, Xi Liu, eds., 2023, Documenting Dongbei: Identity, Space, and Everyday Life in Contemporary Northeast China (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming)
- Liu Xi, 2021, 《话语内外：百年中国文学中的性别再现和主体塑造》（Discourse and Beyond: Gender Representation and Subject Construction in 100 Years of Chinese Literature）, Nanjing University Press.. Funded by XJTLU RDF and AEF. ISBN:978-7-305-25211-2
- Penn Ip, Zhang Yu, Liu Xi, 2021, 《海上凡花：上海工人新村妇女日常生活》（The Ordinary Women: Qualitative Research on Workers’ New Villages in Shanghai）, Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House, Funded by GenUrb (Urbanization, Gender, and the Global South: A Transformative Knowledge Network), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Canada; Also funded by 2021 Shanghai Cultural Development Fund. ISBN:978-7-5321-8205-3
Chapters, cases, readings and supplements
- 刘希 2023 “科幻理论与研究·性别“，《科幻导论》，李广益主编，重庆大学出版社
- 刘希 2022 “后结构理论与中国女性主义批评 ——以社会主义文化研究中的妇女‘主体性‘为中心”，《纵深与超越：后理论与比较文学跨学科研究》，江玉琴主编，中山大学出版社
- 刘希 2022 “社会学的想象力：当代中国科幻的一种读法”，《信睿周报》(The Thinker) 2022年9月1日第81期，8-11
- Liu Xi, 2022 "Tibetan stories with transcultural perspectives and experimental styles: Chinese Avant-garde fictions as example" in Daria Berg & Giorgio Strafella (eds) China's Avant-Garde: 1978-2018, Routledge, 80-97
- Zhou Yue, Liu Xi, 2022, "Representing Environmental Issues in Post-1990s Chinese Science Fiction: Technological Imaginary and Ecological Concerns" in Ecocriticism and Chinese Literature Imagined Landscapes and Real Lived Spaces, Riccardo Moratto, Nicoletta Pesaro, Di-kai Chao (eds), Routledge, pp.98-112
- 刘希 2020 "当代中国科幻中的科技、性别和赛博格：以《荒潮》为例“", 《微文化研究第二辑：性别之惑》，滕威主编，上海书店出版社，第128-149页；2023，《地火行天：中国科幻研究十年精选（2011-2020）》，李广益主编，重庆大学出版社
- Liu, Xi 2014, "The Representation of Chinese Rural Migrant Women and the Post-Mao Modernity Discourses".in Ro?ker, Jana S., and Nata?a Vampelj Suhadolnik (eds) Modernisation of Chinese Culture: Continuity and Change, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 215-230 (originally published in Frontiers of Literary Studies in China, 2012)
Conference presentations
- *Workshop/Panel Organized:
- Organizer of the "2022 Suzhou Workshop on Urban and Gender Studies" (July, 2022)
- Organizer and Chair of the panel "Between Tradition and Modernity: On the International Communication of Chinese Cultural Heritage in Contemporary Era" for IAMCR Pre-Conference (July, 2022)
- Organizer and Chair of the Panel “The Crises of Human World and Thought Experiments in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction” for Asian Futurisms ,2021 (May, 2022)
- Co-organizer of the workshop on "Cultural Production in Maoist China", (November 2021)
- Co-organizer of the online workshop on "Women and Urbanization in China: Building a transformative knowledge network", (August, 2021)
- *Individual Paper Presentation:
- 2021, Gendering Transformations: Feminist Knowledge Production and Trans/national Activist Engagement/“The Language of Liberation ”：Female Narratives of Women’s Liberation on Chinese Women’s Federation’ Publications: 1949-1962
- 2021, The First Suzhou Forum on Science Communication/ A Study of "Scientific Community" in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction
- 2021, The Annual Meeting of Chinese Association of Art Theory/ Marxist feminism and the studies of "representation"
- 2021, International Conference on "Media Education in an Uncertain and Polarized World"/Raising Students’ Gender Consciousness in Media Education: A Pedagogical Experiment at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
- 2021, China from the Margins: New Narratives of the Past and the Present/Female Migrant Workers in contemporary Chinese “baomu”-themed Fiction
- 2021, The Annual Meeting of American Association of Geographers /Revisiting Socialist Workers’ New Villages: The Everyday Life of Precarious Women During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Shanghai (with Penn Ip, Yu Zhang)
- 2021, Workshop on "The technological imaginary in contemporary Chinese fiction"/ Technology, Human Reproduction and Motherhood in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction
- 2020, Women and Development in Post-pandemic China/ Precarious Women, Family and Community during COVID19 Pandemic in China: A case study of Shanghai Workers' New Villages (with Yu Zhang, Penn Ip)
- 2020, Conference on "Post-theories" and Comparative Literature/ The Genealogy of Posthuman-feminism and its application in China (with Yu Xuying)
- 2019, China and the world: language, culture, politics. Sofia University/ "Post-human" and "Post-Gender" in Chinese Science Fiction
- 2019, The XXII ICLA Congress/Chinese New-wave Sci-Fi in the perspective of posthuman-feminism
- 2019, ICAS11/ Counter Discourses to Sex Binarism in May Fourth Literary Feminism
- 2019, International conference on “Western Literary Theory and Chinese Literary Scholarship”/ Poststructuralist Feminism in Re-examination of Chinese Women’s Writings of Socialist Period
- 2018, 2018 Conference on “Chinese women’s liberation”/ Socialist Literary Feminism in 1949-66 Chinese Dramas
- 2018, CLAROC 2018/ Gender, Science&Technology, Cyborg in Chen Qiufan's Waste Tide
- 2018, Comparative Cultural Studies Conference/ The Problematics of ‘female subjectivity and agency’---Recent cultural and literary studies on Chinese women as examples
- 2017, 6th conference of the Sino-Nordic Women and Gender Studies Conference Series: Age Agency Ambiguity - gender and generation in times of change / Growing up in Mao era: State Discourse, Female Agency and Self-Understanding of Female Experiences in several Contemporary Chinese Female Intellectuals' Memoirs
- 2017, 2017 ACLA seminar #38 Feminism with Chinese Characteristics / Subaltern Females and Sexual Discourses in Contemporary Chinese female-authored Writings
- 2017, The Tenth International Convention of Asia Scholars / The Travelling of Poetic Modernism in 1940s China and Mu Dan's Wartime Poems
- 2016, The Art of Transculturality: New Frontiers in Postsocialist China's Avant-garde / Borderland, Minorities Culture, and non-Han Other in Chinese Avant-gardists' Fictions
Grants
- *Principal Investigator:
- 2021-2023 XJTLU Research Development Fund, PI for the project "A History of Climate and Literature: A Comparison of Chinese and Western Texts"
- 2021-2023 XJTLU Teaching Development Fund, PI for the Project "Enhancing Research-Led Teaching & Learning for Postgraduate Research Students through Interdisciplinary Research"
- 2020-2023 XJTLU Research Development Fund, PI for the project “Humanism and Post-humanism in Post-1990s Chinese Science Fiction”
- 2019 XJTLU SURF, PI for the project "Social Criticism in Post-1990s Chinese Science Fiction"
- *Co-PI:
- 2021 Shanghai Cultural Development Fund (for book publication) Project: Yu Zhang, Penn Ip, Xi Liu. The Ordinary Women: Qualitative Research on Workers’ New Villages in Shanghai, Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House.
- *Co-Investigator:
- 2021 XJTLU SURF, CI for the project "Portrayal of Chinese maid in the media: A reflection of the social tensions between domestic workers and the rising middle class in China"
- 2020 Xipu Think Tank Fund, CI for the project"The Continuity of Wu Culture and the Cultural Soft Power of Suzhou"
- 2018-2021 XJTLU Research Development Fund, CI for the project "Women’s political participation in rural China: Agency and power redistribution”
- *Team member:
- 2019 Jiangsu Philosophy and Social Science Research Funding Program. Team member for the project: "Women's Political Participation in Rural China"
Professional service activities
- 2023-present Program Director of MA in China Studies
- 2021-present HSS School Alumni Officer
- 2020-present HSS representative of University's Fees Scholarships and Academic Bursaries Sub-Committee
- 2018-2021 Academic Advisor for Diversity Association
- 2017-present Year 4 Coordinator, Work Placement Officer, Alumni officer
- 2016-18 Research Seminar Coordinator, HSS representative of Student Experience Committee
- 2016-20 Library Affairs Committee
Teaching activities
- PHD SUPERVISION:
- PhD Supervision (on-going): Ms. Yue Zhou, "The Technological Fix in Contemporary Ecology-themed Science Fiction"
- PhD Supervision (on-going): Ms. Danxue Zhou, "Social Space in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction"
- Coordinator of PhD Reading Group on "Cultural Studies: Representation, Discourse and Ideology" (2020-present)
- GUEST LECTURES:
- Lecture for HSS PRGS Seminar series, "Theory, Literature Review, and Research Questions", 2021
- 4 Research Seminars on "Gender and Representation", XJTLU, 2021
- Guest lecture for The Confucius Institute, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, "The genealogy of post-human feminism and its application in China", 2021
- Guest lecture for ILEAD, "Gender Equality and Sustainable Development" for the 3rd XJTLU Interdisciplinary Social Innovation Course, 2021
- Guest lecture for ILEAD, "Research-led Learning in Humanities and Social Sciences", 2020
- Guest lecture for Dept. of Sociology, SHUFE, "Domestic Workers in Contemporary Chinese Media Narratives", 2020
- Guest lecture for Centre of Gender Studies, USST, "Gender and Representation: Dagongmei as examples", 2020
- Lecture for HSS PRGS Seminar series, "Theory, Literature Review, and Research Questions", 2020
- CCS303 West China, "West China in post-1980s Chinese Cinema", 2020
- COM110 Communication in China, "Media Representation of Dagongmei (female migrant workers) in Contemporary China", 2019
- X Glo Webinar(18-19), "Chinese Literary Tradition: Suzhou as an example", 2019
- CCS 302 China: Understanding Gender, "Women in the Chinese Revolution", 2018
- XJTLU demo lecture for SFHS, "Love in Chinese Literature", 2018
- Guest lecture for Dept. of Cultural Studies, SHU, "Chinese Women's Liberation in Socialist Theatre", 2018
- Guest lecture for XJTLU Diversity Association & Centre of Gender Studies, USST, The "Gendered Thinking" for a Gender-friendly World, 2018
- CCS 105 Twentieth Century China, "State Socialism", 2017
- TALKS:
- Invited talk on “Interdisciplinary Research-led Teaching” for XJTLU Research-led learning day, XJTLU, 2022
- Ted Talk, "How do Chinese science fiction discuss gender issues?", 2021
- China Talk, "Technology, Human Reproduction and Motherhood in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction", 2021
- Talk for XJTLU Diversity Association. "Undoing Gender for a Gender-friendly World", 2020
- Talk for 2rd Meeting of the Science Fiction at XJTLU Community of Practice, "Representing Female Agency in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction", 2019
- XJTLU Annual Learning and Teaching Colloquium, Panel discussion on "Science fiction as a teaching tool and the student learning experience", 2019
- Invited Talk for Nvshen Marxist Reading Club, "The Narrated Women's Liberation: Voices from Female Peasants and Workers", 2018
- China Talk, "Gender and Post-human in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction", 2018
- China Talk, "Avant-Garde Fiction in Contemporary China", 2016
Courses taught
- Module Leader:
- CCS409 China Studies Dissertation (PG, 2020-present)
- CCS402 Contemporary Chinese Literature and Film (PG, 2019-present)
- CCS307 Chinese Theatre and Performance (UG, 2017-present)
- CCS206 Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature (UG, 2017-present)
- Module Teacher:
- CCS004 Introduction to China Studies (UG, 2021-present)
- CCS901 Understanding China (UG&PG, 2017-present)
- CCS305 Final Year Project (UG, 2018-present)
- COM207 Chinese Cinema (UG, 2018)
- LAN102: Critical Thinking: The Self and The World (UG, 2017)
- CCS002 China and the world (UG, 2016)
- CCS101 Chinese Civilization: Thinkers and Ideas (UG, 2016)
Professional memberships
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), UK
- Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, the Xipu Think Tank
- Chinese Sociological Association, Sub-committee of Women's and Gender Studies
- Jiangsu Women's Studies Association

电话
+86 (0)51281888351
电子邮件
Xi.Liu@xjtlu.edu.cn
地址
HS365(Humanities & Social Sciences Building)
Suzhou Dushu Lake Science and Education Innovation District
Suzhou Industrial Park
Suzhou
P.R.China
215123

Xi LiuPh.D. FHEA

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