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Joyce C. H. Liu
劉紀蕙
Professor Emerita, Researcher, International Center for Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Director, International Center for Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Director, International Graduate Institute for Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, University System of Taiwan
Personal details
Born1956 (1956) (age 67)
EducationUniversity of Illinois (Ph.D.)

Joyce Chi-Hui Liu (Chinese: 劉紀蕙) is a Professor Emerita and Researcher/Director at the International Center for Cultural Studies at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.[1] Her research focuses on geopolitics, biopolitics, border politics, internal coloniality, unequal citizenship, Asian modernity, Chinese political philosophy, and epistemic/artistic decolonization.

Dr. Liu received the 2020 MOST Outstanding Research Award, recognizing her lifetime achievements.[2]

Over the years, Dr. Liu has conducted 34 research projects, organized 28 domestic and international conferences, and supervised 28 Ph.D. Dissertations and 58 MA theses. Her students come from diverse backgrounds, including Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, India, Italy, Poland, Belgium, Palestine, Jordan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, South Africa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, and beyond.

Education

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Liu obtained a bachelor's degree in English literature in 1978 from Fu Jen Catholic University. She moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign for graduate study in comparative literature, earning a master's degree in 1980 and a Ph.D. in 1984.

Career

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Liu's works concentrate on the question of aesthetics, ethics, and politics, ranging from Marx, Freud and Lacan, to contemporary critical theories as well as Chinese political thoughts. She has been a critic of East-Asian modernity and internal coloniality, particularly through re-reading the Chinese intellectual history of the twentieth century and the contemporary political-economy in inter-Asian societies. She served as the chief editor of the only journal of cultural studies in Taiwan, Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies, from 2012–2017. She was the Chair of the Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies (SRCS), which she founded in 2002, until 2019. Additionally, she has been the director of the International Center for Cultural Studies of the University System of Taiwan (ICCS-UST) since 2015.[3]

In recent years, Dr. Liu has coordinated interdisciplinary and trans-national joint research projects, including "Conflict, Justice, and Decolonization: Critical Studies of Inter-Asian Societies" (MOE SPROUT 1.0, 2018-2022) and "Migration, Logistics, and Unequal Citizens in the Global Context" (2019-2022), among others.[4] She is currently overseeing the "Transit Asia Research Network" (TARN) (2023-2027), which brings together international research institutes from 14 countries, including Australia, India, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, South Korea, Hong Kong, Italy, Germany, Poland, and Taiwan.

Academic positions

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After Liu's graduation, she became Associate Professor in English Department of Fu Jen Catholic University between 1984 and 1994. In 1988, she became the chair of the department. In 1994, she became the director of Graduate Institute of Comparative Literature in Fu Jen Catholic University. Since 1994, she became a professor of Graduate Institute of Comparative Literature. She once served as the president of Cultural Studies Association in Taiwan.

In 2001, Liu transferred to Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures in National Chiao Tung University and served as a professor. In 2002, she founded Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies in National Chiao Tung University (SRCS-NCTU) and became the director and professor of it until 2004. She's also the director of Center for Emergent Cultural Studies, National Chiao Tung University between 2001 and 2006. She restarted as the director of Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies twice between 2008 and 2011 and between 2013 and 2019. Between 2011 and 2017, Liu was chief editor of Wenhua Yanjiu (Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies).

Liu was a Chair Professor in Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies (SRCS-NCTU), National Chiao Tung University since 2019 to 2021. She is also the director of International Institute for Cultural Studies, National Chiao Tung University & University System of Taiwan (IICS-NCTU & UST) since 2012. Additionally, she serves as the director of International Graduate Institute for Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, University System of Taiwan (IACS-UST) since 2013. At present, she serves as Professor Emeritus and Specially Appointed Professor in the International Graduate Program in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (IACS-NYCU). Additionally, she acts as the Director of the International Center for Cultural Studies at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan (ICCS-NYCU).

Publications

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Dr. Liu is the author of seven books, including The Topology of the History of Mentalities: How to Face the Contemporary? How to Comprehend the History? (2023), One Divides into Two: Philosophical Archaeology of Modern Chinese Political Thought (2020), and The Topology of Psyche: The Post-1895 Reconfiguration of Ethics (2011). She has also published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters in both Chinese and English. She has edited 19 volumes of academic books, such as "East-Asian Marxisms and their Trajectories" (Routledge 2017) and "Biopolitics, Ethics and Subjectivation" (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2011).

Among her publications, the representative works are the three co-edited volumes: East-Asian Marxisms and their Trajectories (Routledge 2017), European-East Asian Borders in Translation (Routledge 2014), Biopolitics, Ethics and Subjectivation (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2011); and the influential trilogy that she authored: The Topology of Psyche: The Post-1895 Reconfiguration of Ethics (2011), The Perverted Heart: The Psychic Forms of Modernity (2004), as well as Orphan, Goddess, and the Writing of the Negative: The Performance of Our Symptoms (2000).

Books and Monographs (Author)

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  • The Topology of the History of Mentalities: How to Face the Contemporary? How to Comprehend the History? Taipei: Shibao Publishing, 2023. 208 ps.[5]
  • One Divides into Two: Philosophical Archaeology of Modern Chinese Political Thought. Taipei: Lianjing Publisher, 2020. 464 ps.[6]
  • The Topology of Psyche: The Post-1895 Reconstruction of Ethics. Taipei: Flaneur, 2011. 446 ps. (NSC Publication Award 2011) [7]
  • The Perverted Heart: The Psychic Forms of Modernity. Taipei: Ryefield Publisher, 2004. 368 ps. (NICT Publication Award 2004) [8]
  • Literature and Film: Image, Reality and Cultural Criticism. Taipei. 161 ps. (Publication sponsored by NSC) [9]
  • Orphan, Goddess, and the Writing of the Negative: The Performance of Our Symptoms. Taipei: Lixu Publisher, 2000. 470 ps.[10]
  • Eight Essays on Literature and the Other Arts: Intertextuality, Counterpoint and Cultural Interpretation. Taipei: San Ming Books Publisher, 1994. 193 ps. (with review system) [11]

Books (Editor)

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  • Where are the People? People's Theater in Inter-Asian Societies. Qi Li, Zikri Rahman, Joyce C.H. Liu, eds. English edition. ISBN 9789865470500. Chinese edition ISBN 9789865470517. Hsinchu, Taiwan: National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University Press. Nov, 2022.[12]
  • Global Coloniality and the World Disorder: A Decoloinal Take. By Walter Mignolo. Chinese Translation. Eds. Hui-Yu Tang & Joyce C.H. Liu. 9789865470173.[13]
  • East-Asian Marxisms and their Trajectories. Eds. Joyce C.H. Liu & Viren Mirthy. London: Routledge, 2017. ISBN 978-1138919846.
  • European-East Asian Borders in Translation. Eds. Joyce C.H. Liu, Nick Vaughan-Williams. London: Routledge, 2014. ISBN 978-0415831314
  • Biopolitics, Ethics and Subjectivation. Eds. Joyce C.H. Liu & Alain Brossai, Yuan-Horng Chu, Rada Ivekovic. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2011.
  • Visual Culture and Critical Theory I: Empire, Asia and the Question of Subject. Ed. Joyce Chi-Hui Liu. Taipei: Ryefield Publisher, 2006.
  • Visual Culture and Critical Theory II: Everyday Life and Popular Culture. Ed. Joyce Chi-Hui Liu. Taipei: Ryefield Publisher, 2006.
  • Visual Theories and Cultural Studies. Ed. Joyce Chi-Hui Liu. Taipei: Chung Wai Publisher, 2002.
  • The Realms of the Other: Cultural Identities and Politics of Representation. Ed. Joyce Chi-Hui Liu. Taipei: Ryefield Publisher, 2000.
  • Writing Taiwan. Eds. Chou Yingxung & Liu Chi-Hui Joyce. Taipei: Ryefield Publisher, 2000.
  • Inter-Frames: Word-Image-Music and the Semiotic Boundaries. Ed. Joyce Chi-Hui Liu. Taipei: Lixu Publisher, 1999.

Co-edited volumes

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  • Special Column: Against the Day: Migration Struggles, Colonial Legacies, and Pandemic Shifts. Eds. Joyce C.H. Liu & Brett Neilson. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 July 2021  (UGC CARE, Scopus, AHCI) (H-Index of 42; Impact Score 1.56)
  • Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. Special Issue: Artistic mediation of Decolonized Body. Eds. Joyce C.H. Liu & Naoki Sakai. Vol. 19, Issue 4 (Dec. 2018).[14]
  • The Position of Philosophy and Politics: Special Issue on Alain Badiou. Chung Wai Literary Quarterly. Vol. 47, No. 3. September 2018.
  • East-Asian Marxisms and their Trajectories. Eds. Joyce C.H. Liu & Viren Mirthy. London: Routledge, 2017.[15]
  • European-East Asian Borders in Translation. Eds. Joyce C. H. Liu and Nick Vaughan-Williams. London: Routledge, 2013. Forthcoming.[16]
  • Biopolitics, Ethics and Subjectivation. Eds. Joyce C.H. Liu & Alain Brossai, Yuan-Horng Chu, Rada Ivekovic. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2011.[17]
  • Special Issue: Koyasu Nobukuni Joyce C.H. Liu. Ed. Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies. 2008.
  • Visual Culture and Critical Theory I: Empire, Asia and the Question of Subject Ed. Joyce Chi-Hui Liu. Taipei: Ryefield Publisher, 2006.[18]
  • Visual Culture and Critical Theory II: Everyday Life and Popular Culture Ed. Joyce Chi-Hui Liu. Taipei: Ryefield Publisher, 2006.[19]
  • Visual Theories and Cultural Studies. Ed. Joyce Chi-Hui Liu. Taipei: Chung Wai Publisher, 2002.
  • The Realms of the Other: Cultural Identities and Politics of Representation. Ed. Joyce Chi-Hui Liu. Taipei: Ryefield Publisher, 2002.[20]
  • China as Sign, Taiwan as Icon. Ed. Joyce Chi-hui Liu. Taipei: Chungwai Wenxue, 2000.
  • Writing Taiwan. Eds. Chou Yingxung & Liu Chi-Hui Joyce. Taipei: Ryefield Publisher, 2000.[21]
  • Inter-Frames: Word-Image-Music and the Semiotic Boundaries. Ed. Joyce Chi-Hui Liu. Taipei: Lixu Publisher. 1999.[22]

Scholarly translations into Chinese

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  • La Mésentente. Politique et philosophie. by Jacque Rancière. co-translated with Shufen Lin, Kelun Chen, Xiping Xue. Taipei: Maitian Publisher. 2011.[23]
  • An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis by Dylan Evans. co-translated with Chaoyang Liao, Zonghui Huang, Zhuojun Gong. Taipei: Juliu Publisher. 2009.[24]
  • Milky Way. by Kaja Silverman. chungwai wenxue. 30.12 (2002.5): 25–53.

References

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  1. ^ "International Center for Cultural Studies - 文化研究國際中心". iccs.chss.nycu.edu.tw. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
  2. ^ "International Center for Cultural Studies - 文化研究國際中心". iccs.chss.nycu.edu.tw. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
  3. ^ "Joyce C.H. Liu". Graduate Institute for Social Research and Cultural Studies, NCTU. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  4. ^ "International Center for Cultural Studies - 文化研究國際中心". iccs.chss.nycu.edu.tw. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
  5. ^ "心態史拓撲學：如何面對當代？如何理解歷史？". 博客來. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
  6. ^ 劉紀蕙 (27 March 2020). 一分為二：現代中國政治思想的哲學考掘學 (in Chinese). 聯經出版事業公司. ISBN 9789570854763. Retrieved 2020-03-30.
  7. ^ 劉紀蕙 (2011). 心之拓樸：1895事件後的倫理重構 (in Chinese). 行人文化實驗室. ISBN 9789868581074. Retrieved 2020-03-30.
  8. ^ 劉紀蕙 (2004). 心的變異：現代性的精神形式 (in Chinese). 麥田出版. ISBN 9867413059. Retrieved 2020-03-30.
  9. ^ 劉紀蕙 (2003). 文學與電影 : 影像.真實.文化批評 (in Chinese). 中硏院. ISBN 9576719410. Retrieved 2020-03-30.
  10. ^ 劉紀蕙 (2000). 孤兒．女神．負面書寫：文化符號的徵狀式閱讀 (in Chinese). 立緖文化事業有限公司. ISBN 9578453922. Retrieved 2020-03-30.
  11. ^ 劉紀蕙 (1994). 文學與藝術八論：互文‧對位‧文化詮釋 (in Chinese). 三民書局. ISBN 9789571421391. Retrieved 2020-03-30.
  12. ^ "Where are the people? People's theater in Inter-Asian Societies". iccs.chss.nycu.edu.tw. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
  13. ^ "Global Coloniality and The World Disorder: A Decolonial Take | CENTER FOR GLOBAL STUDIES AND THE HUMANITIES". globalstudies.trinity.duke.edu. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
  14. ^ Joyce C.H. Liu & Naoki Sakai. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. Special Issue: Artistic mediation of Decolonized Body. Taylor & Francis. Retrieved 2020-03-30.
  15. ^ Joyce C.H. Liu, Viren Murthy (2017-02-03). East-Asian Marxisms and Their Trajectories. Routledge. ISBN 9781315687582. Retrieved 2020-03-30.
  16. ^ Joyce C.H. Liu, Nick Vaughan-Williams (2014-08-21). European-East Asian Borders in Translation. Routledge. ISBN 9780203746660. Retrieved 2020-03-30.
  17. ^ Alain Brossat, Yuan-Horng Chu, Rada Iveković, Joyce C.H. Liu (2011-03-09). Biopolitics, Ethics and Subjectivation. L'Harmattan. ISBN 9782296545458. Retrieved 2020-03-30.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  18. ^ 劉紀蕙 (2006-09-16). 文化的視覺系統I：帝國─亞洲─主體性 (in Chinese). Taiwan: 麥田. ISBN 9861730907. Retrieved 2020-03-30.
  19. ^ 劉紀蕙 (2006-09-16). 文化的視覺系統II：日常生活與大眾文化 (in Chinese). Taiwan: 麥田. ISBN 9861730915. Retrieved 2020-03-30.
  20. ^ 劉紀蕙 (2001-03-01). 他者之域：文化身分與再現策略 (in Chinese). 麥田. ISBN 9789574692927. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
  21. ^ 周英雄，劉紀蕙 (2000-04-29). 書寫台灣：文學史、後殖民、後現代 (in Chinese). 麥田. ISBN 9574690210. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
  22. ^ 劉紀蕙 (1999-12-15). 框架內外：藝術、文類與符號疆界 (in Chinese). 立緒. ISBN 9578453817. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
  23. ^ 劉紀蕙、林淑芬、薛熙平、陳克倫 (2011-04-19). 歧義：政治與哲學 (in Chinese). Taipei: 麥田. ISBN 9789861735771. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
  24. ^ 劉紀蕙、廖朝陽、黃宗慧、龔卓軍 (2009-10-01). 拉岡精神分析辭彙 (in Chinese). Taipei: 巨流. ISBN 9789577323361. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
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