Lydia H. Liu
American literary scholar and sinologist
About Lydia H. Liu
Born 1957. Lydia H. Liu is a sinologist, comparative literature academic, literary scholar and cultural studies scholar.
Lydia He Liu is a theorist of media and translation and a scholar of comparative literature. She is the Wun Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University.
Biography Liu received a BA from Northwest Normal University in Lanzhou, China. She then received an MA from Shandong University and PhD from Harvard University. Her scholarship has focused on modern China, cross-cultural cultural exchanges, and global transformation in modern history.
Liu established the Tsinghua-Columbia University Center for Translingual and Transcultural Studies at Tsinghua University in 2011.
Liu was a fellow of the National Humanities Center from 1997 to 1998. She was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1997.
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American literary scholar and sinologist
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Lydia H. Liu was born on 27 December 1957.
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Lydia H. Liu is a sinologist, comparative literature academic, literary scholar and cultural studies scholar.
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