Jin Liu
Associate Professor of Chinese
- School of Modern Languages
- ADVANCE IAC
Overview
Jin Liu received her Ph.D. in East Asian Literature and Culture from Cornell University. Her interdisciplinary research studies contemporary Chinese popular culture from the perspective of language, sound, voice, and music. She is the author of the book, Signifying the Local: Media Productions Rendered in Local Languages in Mainland China in the New Millennium (Brill, 2013). Drawing on cultural and literary theories, media studies, and sociolinguistics, this book examines recent cultural productions rendered in local languages and dialects (fangyan in Chinese) in the fields of film, television, the Internet, popular music, and fiction in mainland China. She co-edited and contributed to the book, Chinese Under Globalization: Emerging Trends in Language Use in China (World Scientific, 2012). She has widely published articles on Chinese independent films, eco-cinema, rap music, Internet culture, youth culture, and sociolinguistics in journals including positions: Asia Critique, East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, Journal of Chinese Cinema, Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR), Twentieth-Century China, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (MCLC), Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese (JMLC), Chinese Language and Discourse, and Harvard Asia Pacific Review. Many of her publications can be seen at https://gatech.academia.edu/JinLiu.
Dr. Liu teaches Chinese language and contemporary Chinese culture at Georgia Tech. Earlier she taught Chinese language and culture at Cornell University, Middlebury College summer Chinese school, and Princeton University summer program in Beijing (PIB). She alternately co-directs the GT School of Modern Languages’ intensive summer Chinese language program in Shanghai and Qingdao, Chinese LBAT. She is the coordinator of the prestigious Chinese Government Scholarships (each about $10,000) since 2011. She has organized two China events for Georgia Tech Global Media Festival, and brought the awarded film director and photographer, Mr. Wang Jiuliang, and the comic artist Mr. Li Xiaoguai, an icon of Chinese youth culture and Internet culture, on campus in 2017 and in 2018.
- Ph. D. 2008 Cornell University, East Asian Literature & Culture
- M. A. 2001 Cornell University, Asian Studies
- M. A. 2000 Beijing University, Chinese Linguistics
- B. A. 1997 Beijing University, Chinese Language and Literature
Distinctions:
- Georgia Tech CETL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence, 2012
- Class of 1934 Course Survey Teaching Effectiveness Award, 2012
- Class of 1940 Course Survey Teaching Effectiveness Award, 2014 and 2018
Interests
- Chinese
- Cross-Cultural Understanding
- Dialectical Linguistics
- East-Asian Studies
- Globalization and Localization
- Language and Popular Culture
- Media
- Modernity
- Youth Culture
Courses
- CHIN-1002: Elementary Chinese II
- CHIN-2001: Intermediate Chinese I
- CHIN-2002: Intermediate Chinese II
- CHIN-3401: Kaleidoscope of Chinese
- CHIN-3691: Chinese Current Events
- CHIN-3692: Business Chinese
- CHIN-3693: Conversation Practicum
- CHIN-3823: Special Topics
- CHIN-4003: Advanced Chinese II
- CHIN-4004: Advanced Chinese III
- CHIN-4031: Chin-Language Cinema
- CHIN-4500: Intercultural Seminar
- CHIN-4695: Chinese Internship
- CHIN-6031: Chinese Cinema & Media
- CHIN-6252: Dom Internship Chin
- CHIN-6500: Intercultural Seminar
- CHIN-8804: Special Topics
All Publications
Books
- Signifying the Local: Media Productions Rendered in Local Languages in Mainland China in the New Millennium
Date: 2013
- Chinese Under Globalization: Emerging Trends in Language Use in China (Co-edited)
Date: 2012
Journal Articles
- “Fractality in Chinese Prose”
In: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2022
- Language, Identity and Unintelligibility: A Case Study of the Rap Group Higher Brothers,
In: East Asian Journal of Popular Culture [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2021
- “Translanguaging as a Pedagogical Practice in Chinese Language and (Inter)culture Courses”
In: Chinese as a Second Language [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2021
- Dislocation and Displacement: An Analysis of Wang Jiuliang’s Plastic China
In: Journal of Chinese Cinema [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2020
- “Subversive Writing: Li Xiaoguai’s Newly Coined Chinese Characters and His Comic Blogging,”
In: Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR) [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2018
- “A Historical Review of the Discourse of Fangyan in Modern China,”
In: Twentieth-Century China [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2016
- “Alternative Voice and Local Youth Identity in Chinese Local-Language Rap Music,”
In: positions: Asia Critique (Duke University Press) [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2014
- Deviant Writing and Youth Identity: Representation of Dialects with Chinese Characters on the Internet,
In: Chinese Language and Discourse [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2011
- Ambivalent Laughter: Comic Sketches in CCTV Spring Festival Eve Gala
In: Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese (JMLC) [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2010
- “Negotiating Linguistic Identities under Globalization: Language Use in Contemporary China” (With Hongyin Tao)
In: Harvard Asia Pacific Review
Date: 2009
- The Rhetoric of Local Languages as the Marginal: Chinese Underground and Independent Films by Jia Zhangke and Others
In: Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (MCLC) [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2006
Chapters
- “Teaching Advanced Chinese Through Films: An Integrated Approach,”
In: in Teaching Film from the People’s Republic of China, co-edited by Zhuoyi Wang, Emily Wilcox, and Hongmei Yu [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2023
- “Deviant Writing and Youth Identity: Transcription of Shanghai Wu Dialect on the Internet,”
In: Digital Orality: Vernacular Writing in Online Spaces, co-edited by Cecelia Cutler, May Ahmar, and Wafa Bahri [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2022
- “Chinese Language in the Global Context” (with Hongyin Tao)
In: The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language
Date: 2016
- “The Use of Chinese Dialects on the Internet: Youth Language and Local Youth Identity in Urban China,”
In: Vallah, Gurkensalat 4U & me! Current Perspectives in the Study of Youth Language [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2010
Internet Publications
- “An Overview of Academic Talks and Virtual Events on China Studies (Oct.-Dec. 2020)”
In: Beijing University Comparative Literature social media
Date: December 2020
- A Cinematic Presentation of Trash: An Interview with Wang Jiuliang
In: Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (MCLC) Resource Center
Date: May 2020
Other Publications
- Book review on Yurou Zhong’s Chinese Grammatology: Script Revolution and Literary Modernity, 1916-1958 (Columbia University Press. 2019)
In: Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews
Date: 2021