{"id":1415,"date":"2016-03-07T13:43:34","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T18:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2016-03-08T08:43:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T13:43:11","slug":"lydia-h-liu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/2016\/03\/07\/lydia-h-liu\/","title":{"rendered":"Lydia H. Liu"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lydia H. Liu<\/a>\u00a0is the Wun Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities;\u00a0<\/span>Director, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. She received her Ph.D degree in Comparative Literature at Harvard University in 1990. Her\u00a0research centers on modern China, cross-cultural exchange, and global transformation in modern history, with a focus on the movement of words, theories, and artifacts across national boundaries and on the evolution of writing, textuality, and media technology.<\/p>\n

Professor Liu teaches courses on modern Chinese literature and culture in this department and offers graduate courses on comparative literature, critical translation theory, and new media in the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Professor Liu is the author of\u00a0The Freudian Robot: Digital Media and the Future of the Unconscious<\/span><\/em><\/a>\u00a0(University of Chicago Press, 2010). Her new publications include\u00a0\u201cShadows of Universalism: The Untold Story of Human Rights\u00a0Around 1948,<\/a>\u201d\u00a0Critical Inquiry<\/span><\/em>, Summer 2014; and \u201cThe Eventfulness of Translation:\u00a0Temporality, Difference,\u00a0and Competing Universals,\u201d forthcoming in\u00a0translation: a transdisciplinary journal<\/span><\/em>. Her other books include\u00a0<\/span><\/em>The Clash of Empires: The Invention of China in Modern World Making<\/span><\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2004);\u00a0Tokens of Exchange: The Problem of\u00a0Translation in Global Circulations<\/span><\/em><\/a>\u00a0(editor, 1999);\u00a0Translingual Practice: Literature, National Culture, and Translated Modernity<\/span><\/em><\/a>\u00a0(1995); and\u00a0Writing and Materiality in China<\/span><\/em><\/a>\u00a0(co-edited with Judith Zeitlin, 2003).<\/p>\n

As a creative writer in Chinese, she published a new book (in Chinese) called\u00a0The Nesbit Code<\/span><\/em><\/a>\u00a0with Oxford University Press in Hong Kong which received the 2014 Hong Kong Book Award. Her most recent collaboration with Rebecca Karl and Dorothy Ko,\u00a0The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Feminism<\/span><\/em><\/a>, appeared in print in the Weatherhead Books on Asia series, published by Columbia University\u00a0Press in 2013.<\/p>\n

Professor Liu was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (1997\u20131998) and a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin (2004\u20132005); in 2013, she was the Class of 1932 Fellow in the Humanities Council at Princeton\u00a0University.<\/p>\n

Among her many activities, Professor Liu established a new Tsinghua-Columbia Center for Translingual and Transcultural Studies (CTTS) at Tsinghua University in Beijing to promote international collaboration and interdisciplinary\u00a0research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lydia H. Liu\u00a0is the Wun Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities;\u00a0Director, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. She received her Ph.D degree in Comparative Literature at Harvard University in 1990. Her\u00a0research centers on modern China, cross-cultural exchange, and global transformation… Continue Reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38990],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guests-11-13"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}