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Dr. Yiwen Liu, Limited Term Lecturer
Dr. Yiwen Liu is a literary scholar concerned with decolonial epistemologies represented in Anglophone and Sinophone literatures. Her teaching and research focus on postcolonial literature and theory, studies of migration and diaspora, studies of Global Asia, as well as Inter-Asia and Transpacific cultural studies. Her book manuscript entitled Cold War Hong Kong: Genres of Everyday Resistance in Sinophone Literature exposes the often invisible complicity between British-American imperialisms and the Chinese authoritarianism in the everyday life of Hong Kong during the Cold War. By examining Sinophone literature written between 1945 and 1989, she shows that ordinary Hong Kong people鈥攑ostwar local residents, mainland Chinese migrants, and coastal communities across the Southeast Asian waters鈥攆orged resistant relationships that undermined such Cold War imperialisms, whose forces continue to shape the globality today. As a postdoctoral fellow in the English Department, she works with Dr. Joanne Leow on the Digital Humanities project entitled 鈥淚ntertidal Polyphonies鈥� that documents, theorizes, and compares the political artwork in the three coastal sites of Hong Kong, Singapore, and Vancouver. Outside of work, she enjoys drinking tea, playing the piano, jogging, and bouldering.
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