• Source: Joyce C. H. Liu

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. 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.
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


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


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.
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. 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


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


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.
One Divides into Two: Philosophical Archaeology of Modern Chinese Political Thought. Taipei: Lianjing Publisher, 2020. 464 ps.
The Topology of Psyche: The Post-1895 Reconstruction of Ethics. Taipei: Flaneur, 2011. 446 ps. (NSC Publication Award 2011)
The Perverted Heart: The Psychic Forms of Modernity. Taipei: Ryefield Publisher, 2004. 368 ps. (NICT Publication Award 2004)
Literature and Film: Image, Reality and Cultural Criticism. Taipei. 161 ps. (Publication sponsored by NSC)
Orphan, Goddess, and the Writing of the Negative: The Performance of Our Symptoms. Taipei: Lixu Publisher, 2000. 470 ps.
Eight Essays on Literature and the Other Arts: Intertextuality, Counterpoint and Cultural Interpretation. Taipei: San Ming Books Publisher, 1994. 193 ps. (with review system)




= 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.
Global Coloniality and the World Disorder: A Decoloinal Take. By Walter Mignolo. Chinese Translation. Eds. Hui-Yu Tang & Joyce C.H. Liu. 9789865470173.
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).
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.
European-East Asian Borders in Translation. Eds. Joyce C. H. Liu and Nick Vaughan-Williams. London: Routledge, 2013. Forthcoming.
Biopolitics, Ethics and Subjectivation. Eds. Joyce C.H. Liu & Alain Brossai, Yuan-Horng Chu, Rada Ivekovic. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2011.
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.
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, 2002.
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.
Inter-Frames: Word-Image-Music and the Semiotic Boundaries. Ed. Joyce Chi-Hui Liu. Taipei: Lixu Publisher. 1999.




= 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.
An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis by Dylan Evans. co-translated with Chaoyang Liao, Zonghui Huang, Zhuojun Gong. Taipei: Juliu Publisher. 2009.
Milky Way. by Kaja Silverman. chungwai wenxue. 30.12 (2002.5): 25–53.




References






External links


Official website In Chinese
"Joyce C.H. Liu". Graduate Institute for Social Research and Cultural Studies, NCTU.
Liu, Joyce. "The Graduate Institute for Social Research and Cultural Studies". Professor. National Chiao Tung University. Retrieved 2013-07-26.
Liu, Joyce. "Inter Asia Cultural Study Faculty Page". Professor. Inter Asia Cultural Study. Retrieved 2017-03-16.

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