Kang Liu | Scholars@Duke

Kang Liu
Professor of Asian and African Languages and Literature

My research interests: Marxism and aesthetics, globalization, ideologies, cultural politics and media in China

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Professor of Asian and African Languages and Literature, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2004

Contact Information

2204 Erwin Rd Room 210, Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708
Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708-0414
liukang@duke.edu

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison 1989
- M.A., University of Wisconsin - Madison 1984
- B.A., Nanjing University (China) 1982
Recognition
In the News
- NOV 4, 2014 NPR’s “On Point”
  
  Kang Liu comments: China takes U.S. aim in a war of words
Expertise
Global Scholarship
- Expertise
  - China (Country)
Research
Selected Grants
- 2019 Jiangsu College Student Summer Camp at Duke awarded by Jiangsu Education Services for International Exchange 2019
- 2017 Jiangsu College Student Summer Camp at Duke awarded by Jiangsu Education Services for International Exchange 2017
- Televising China - Television and Contemporary Chinese Society awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 2004 - 2005
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - Liu, K. Aesthetics and Marxism (Chinese translation). Peking University Press, 2012.
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  - Liu, K. , Bakhtin’s Dialogism and Cultural Theory. Peking University Press, 2012.
  - Kang, Liu, and Zhou Xian. Contemporary Chinese Media Culture. Peking University Press, 2010.
  - Liu, K. China’s Global Image and Political Communication. Shanghai Jiaotong University Press, 2010.
  - Liu, Kang. Globalization and Cultural Trends in China. University of Hawaii Press, 2004.
  - Kang, Liu. Globalization and Cultural Trends in China. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003.
  - Kang, Liu. Globalization and Nationalism. Tianjin: Tianjin People’s Press, 2002.
  - Kang, Liu. Aesthetics and Marxism: Chinese Aesthetic Marxists and Their Western Contemporaries. Duke University Press, 2000.
  - Kang, Liu, and Li Xiguang. Media Bombing: Reflections on Media and Kosovo. Nanjing: Jiangsu People’s Press, 1999.
- Academic Articles
  - Liu, K. “Introduction: China question of western theory.” Clcweb Comparative Literature and Culture 22, no. 5 (December 1, 2020): 1–5. https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.3819.
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  - Liu, K. “Introduction: Rethinking critical theory and maoism.” Clcweb Comparative Literature and Culture 20, no. 3 (September 1, 2018). https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.3246.
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  - Kang, Liu. “A (Meta)commentary on Western Literary Theories in China: The Case of Jameson and Chinese Jamesonism.” Modern Language Quarterly 79, no. 3 (September 1, 2018): 323–40. https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-6910785.
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  - Kang, Liu. “Social Sciences, Humanities and Liberal Arts: China and the West.” European Review 26, no. 2 (May 2018): 241–61. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1062798717000643.
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  - Kang, Liu. “Interests, Values, and Geopolitics: The Global Public Opinion on China.” European Review 23, no. 2 (May 2015): 242–60. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1062798714000714.
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  - Kang, Liu, and Yun-Han Chu. “China's Rise through World Public Opinion: Editorial Introduction.” Journal of Contemporary China 24, no. 92 (March 4, 2015): 197–202. https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2014.932146.
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  - Kang, Liu. “"Introduction", Special Issue (editor), “China and the World: Literary Construction,”.” Comparative Literature Studies 49 (2012): 497–504.
  - Kang, Liu. “"Dinner Party of Discourse Owners",” 2012.
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  - Liu, K. “Frankfurt School and China: Questions of Culture, Aesthetics and Alternative Modernity in Western Marxism and Chinese Marxism (Accepted).” Journal of Chinese Philosophy, December 2011.
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  - Liu Kang, K. “Poeticizing Revolution: Zizek's Misreading of Mao and China (Accepted).” Positions: East Asian Cultural Critique, October 2011.
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  - Liu, K. “Searching for a New Cultural Identity: China's Softpower and Media Culture Today (Accepted).” Journal of Contmporary China, July 2011.
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  - Liu, K. “China's Soft Power and Media Culture.” Literature and Arts Studies, July 2010.
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  - Liu, K. “Reinventing the “Red Classics” in the age of globalization.” Neohelicon 37, no. 2 (March 2010): 329–47.
  - Liu, K. “The Moderators of International Communication and Western "China Hands".” Modern Communication, 2010.
  - Liu, K. “Western Image and Discourse on Tibet.” China Tibetology, no. 1 (January 2010): 1–23.
  - Liu, K. ““China’s New Cultural Identity”.” Studies in Literature and Arts (Wenyi Yanjiu) 7 (2010): 1–18.
  - Liu, K. ““From Area Studies to Cultural Studies: The Paradigmatic Changes in Humanities and Social Sciences”.” Edited by Chinese Academy of Arts. Literature and Arts Studies 2007 (June 2007): 12–21.
  - Lawrence Grossberg, K. ““Cultural Studies: A Dialogue with Lawrence Grossberg,”.” China Book Review 2007, no. 4 (April 2007): 104–9.
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  - Lawrence Grossberg, K. ““Articulation, Context, and Conjuncture----Dialogue on Cultural Studies”.” Journal of Nanjing University 2007, no. 3 (March 2007): 75–83.
  - Liu Kang, L. ““Western Studies of Chinese Muslim: A Critical Review”.” Journal of Muslim Studies 15, no. 4 (October 2005): 4–16.
  - Liu Kang, L. ““The Neo- and the Post- in Contemporary Western Social Thoughts”.” Wenjing (Cultural Perspectives) 8 (2005) (August 2005): 18–33.
  - Liu Kang, L. ““Prefix of Post- and Neo- in American Culture Today”.” Culture Review, no. 8 (August 2005): 9–17.
  - Liu Kang, L. ““Comments on Area Studies, China Studies, and Cultural Studies”.” Shanghai Journal of Social Sciences 9, no. 2 (July 2005): 4–19.
  - Liu, K. ““Speaking Truth to Power----Edward Said and Public Intellectual on the Left”.” Frontier (Tianya), no. 1 (January 2004): 17–26.
  - Liu Kang, Adam D. ““The Short-Lived Avant-Garde: The Transformation of Yu Hua”.” Modern Language Quarterly. 63, no. 1 (March 2003): 89–118.
  - Liu Kang, Adam D. ““Reinventing the‘Red Classics’in Contemporary China”.” Comparative Literature in China 26, no. 1 (February 2003): 13–30.
  - Liu Kang, L. ““Globalization, Media, and Ideology: U.S. Media Representation of China”.” International Communication and Cultural Studies 14, no. 1 (July 2002): 323–50.
  - Liu Kang, L. ““Agenda Setting in Reports about China in International Communication---Reporting Falun Gong in American Media”.” The Journal of International Communication, no. 6 (November 2000): 11–14.
  - Liu Kang, G. R. ““Rethinking the Aesthetic Debate in the 1950s and 1960s”.” Literature Review, no. 2 (March 2000): 34–59.
  - Liu Kang, L. ““Globalization and Contemporary Chinese Cultural Trends, Interview with Liu Kang (by Anbin Shi)”.” Cultural Studies: China and the West 1, no. 1 (2000): 92–110.
  - Liu, Kang. “什么是文科？ ——现代知识的型塑与体系,” n.d.
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  - Liu, Kang. “世界中的中国和西方： “西方理论的中国问题”对谈,” n.d.
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  - Liu, Kang. “解读福柯：解释学、知识分子与谱系学的思考,” n.d.
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- Book Sections
  - Liu, K. “"Cultural Studies: Methods，Theories, and Chinese Issues".” In Introduction to Cultural Studies, edited by Lu Yang. Fudan University Press, 2008.
  - Liu, K. “"Postcolonialism and Cultural Studies".” In Introduction to Cultural Studies, edited by Lu Yang. Fudan University Press, 2008.
  - Liu, K. ““Crisis in Western Intellectual Left”.” edited by Shanghai Social Sciences Association, Vol. 2007. Academic Monthly Publishers, 2007.
  - Kang, Liu. “Cultural and Media Globalization.” In Book, 281–281. Nanjing University Press, 2006.
  - Kang, Liu. ““Emergent Globalism and Ideological Change in Post-revolutionary China”.” In Rethinking Globalism, edited by Manfred B. Steger. Lanham MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003.
  - Kang, Liu. “"Internet in China—Emergent Cultural Formations and Contradictions".” In Globalization and the Humanities, edited by David Li. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2002.
Teaching & Mentoring
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