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Kang Liu

Professor of Asian and African Languages and Literature
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708-0414
2204 Erwin Rd Room 210, Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications


Americanization of French Theory and the Rise of “Chinese Postism”

Journal Article Contemporary French and Francophone Studies · January 1, 2024 Chinese Postism refers to Chinese versions of poststructuralism, postmodernism and postcolonialism, three major western theoretical trends prefixed with “post.” Chinese Postism is largely retranslations of English translations (and interpretations) of Fren ... Full text Open Access Cite

Western Theory’s Chinese Transformation: Postscript

Journal Article CLCWeb - Comparative Literature and Culture · December 1, 2023 Full text Open Access Cite

Introduction: China question of western theory

Journal Article CLCWeb - Comparative Literature and Culture · December 1, 2020 In his article, “The China Question of Western Theory,” Kang Liu formulates the China Question of western theory as both western critical frameworks to understand the rise of China, and how these critical frameworks present China not only as an object of s ... Full text Open Access Cite

A (Meta)commentary on Western Literary Theories in China: The Case of Jameson and Chinese Jamesonism

Journal Article Modern Language Quarterly · September 1, 2018 AbstractThis essay takes Fredric Jameson and Chinese Jamesonism as a case in point to illustrate the Chinese anxiety of influence with Western theory and the battle between (Western) universalism and Chinese ... Full text Open Access Cite

Introduction: Rethinking critical theory and maoism

Journal Article CLCWeb - Comparative Literature and Culture · September 1, 2018 In his article, "Rethinking Critical Theory and Maoism," Kang Liu reviews the existing literature in English on the relationship of Critical Theory and Maoism and discusses the need to explore and reconstruct a genealogy of Critical Theory and Maoism withi ... Full text Open Access Cite

Social Sciences, Humanities and Liberal Arts: China and the West

Journal Article European Review · May 2018 For the most part, modern China’s institutions and modes of knowledge have been shaped and predominantly influenced by the West. Since the modern Chinese knowledge system is an integral and inseparable part of that dominant western system, an imman ... Full text Open Access Cite

Interests, Values, and Geopolitics: The Global Public Opinion on China

Journal Article European Review · May 2015 The essay discusses the public opinion surveys on the rise of China in the United States, Asia and Latin America since 2010, conducted by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Duke University’s collaborative research team headed by the author. It exami ... Full text Open Access Cite

China's Rise through World Public Opinion: Editorial Introduction

Journal Article Journal of Contemporary China · March 4, 2015 Full text Open Access Cite

Poeticizing Revolution: Zizek's Misreading of Mao and China

Journal Article Positions: East Asian Cultural Critique · October 2011 Open Access Cite

China's Soft Power and Media Culture

Journal Article Literature and Arts Studies · July 2010 Open Access Cite

Reinventing the “Red Classics” in the age of globalization

Journal Article Neohelicon · March 2010 Abstract The resurgence of revolutionary literature or Red Classics at the turn of the century is indicative of the cultural logic of the revolutionary hegemony during Mao and post-Mao China. Revolutionary hegemony served quite effectively to legitimate Ma ... Cite

“China’s New Cultural Identity”

Journal Article Studies in Literature and Arts (wenyi yanjiu) · 2010 Cite

Western Image and Discourse on Tibet

Journal Article China Tibetology · January 2010 Cite

“Cultural Studies: A Dialogue with Lawrence Grossberg,”

Journal Article China Book Review · April 2007 Link to item Cite

“Articulation, Context, and Conjuncture----Dialogue on Cultural Studies”

Journal Article Journal of Nanjing University · March 2007 Cite

“Western Studies of Chinese Muslim: A Critical Review”

Journal Article Journal of Muslim Studies · October 2005 Cite

“The Neo- and the Post- in Contemporary Western Social Thoughts”

Journal Article Wenjing (Cultural Perspectives) · August 2005 Cite

“Prefix of Post- and Neo- in American Culture Today”

Journal Article Culture Review · August 2005 Cite

“Comments on Area Studies, China Studies, and Cultural Studies”

Journal Article Shanghai Journal of Social Sciences · July 2005 Cite

Globalization and Cultural Trends in China

Book · 2004 In this timely and provocative work, Liu Kang argues that globalization is not simply a new conceptual framework through which cultural change in China can be understood; it is a historical condition in which the country's gaige kaifang ... ... Cite

“The Short-Lived Avant-Garde: The Transformation of Yu Hua”

Journal Article Modern Language Quarterly. · March 2003 Cite

“Reinventing the‘Red Classics’in Contemporary China”

Journal Article Comparative Literature in China · February 2003 Cite

“Globalization, Media, and Ideology: U.S. Media Representation of China”

Journal Article International Communication and Cultural Studies · July 2002 Cite

“Rethinking the Aesthetic Debate in the 1950s and 1960s”

Journal Article Literature Review · March 2000 Cite