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, sociolinguistics, pedagogy, and digital humanities in peer-reviewed journals including positions: Asia Critique (Duke University Press), East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, Journal of Chinese Cinema, Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (University of Wisconsin-Madison Press), Twentieth-Century China (Johns Hopkins University Press), Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (Edinburgh University Press), Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese, Chinese Language and Discourse, Chinese as a Second Language, and Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (Oxford University Press). Many of her publications can be accessed at https://gatech.academia.edu/JinLiu. Her ORCID identifier is https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6757-8008.
Dr. Liu teaches Chinese language and culture at Georgia Tech. Earlier she taught at Cornell University, Middlebury College summer Chinese school, and Princeton University summer program in Beijing (PIB). She alternately serves as the Director of the Chinese program and Director of the Chinese LBAT, School of Modern Languages’ intensive summer Chinese language program in China. Dr. Liu received the Georgia Tech CETL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence in 2012, and the Institute-wide award of “Student Recognition of Excellence in Teaching” respectively in 2012, 2014, 2018, 2021, and 2022.
- 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:
- Class of 1934 Course Survey Teaching Effectiveness Award, 2011
- Georgia Tech CETL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence, 2012
- Class of 1940 Course Survey Teaching Effectiveness Award, 2014
- Class of 1940 Course Survey Teaching Effectiveness Award, 2017
- Student Recognition of Excellence in Teaching Award, 2021
- Student Recognition of Excellence in Teaching Award, 2022
Interests
- Chinese
- Cross-Cultural Understanding
- Dialectical Linguistics
- East-Asian Studies
- Globalization and Localization
- Language and Popular Culture
- Media
- Modernity
- Youth Culture
Courses
- CHIN-1001: Elementary Chinese I
- CHIN-1002: Elementary Chinese II
- CHIN-2001: Intermediate Chinese I
- CHIN-2002: Intermediate Chinese II
- CHIN-3400: China: A Cultural Odyssey
- 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
Selected 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
Recent Publications
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
Internet Publications
- “Film Review: China’s Last Peasant in Return to Dust (2022)”
In: China Currents
Date: 2023