Dr. Xi LIU (Ph.D, FHEA) is an Associate Professor at the Dept. of China Studies, Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University. Her main research fields are contemporary Chinese cultural studies and Chinese women's studies. Her research articles appeared in high-impact, SSCI/AHCI-indexed journals, including Journal of Gender Studies (SJR-Q1), Asian Studies Review (SJR-Q1), Asian Journal of Women's Studies (SJR-Q2); CSSCI-indexed journals , including Literary Review (文学评论), Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art (文艺理论研究), Journal of Chinese Women's Studies(妇女研究论丛) , Cultural Studies(文化研究), and China Studies (中国研究 ). She has published three monographs on Chinese literary and gender studies and has co-edited one volume on cultural studies of contemporary Northeast China. She has been teaching modules on Chinese literature, theatre, and film to undergraduate and postgraduate students.

As the principal supervisor, she has supervised two PhD students to completion. Preferred research areas of prospective PhD projects:  Marxist feminist cultural and ethnographic studies.

Cultural and ethnographic studies of class, gender, and regionality

Popular narratives on the identification of Chinese youth

Science, technology, and subjectivity in Chinese media representation

Interdisciplinary pedagogy and practices in Chinese higher education

Associate Professor, Dept. of China Studies, Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University -2022 to present

Assistant Professor, Dept. of China Studies, Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University - 2016 to 2022

Part-time Lecturer, Dept. of Comparative Literature, the University of Hong Kong - 2016

Project Supervisor for ”MA in Chinese Literature”, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Hong Kong Metropolitan University - 2014 to 2015

Research Associate, Dept. of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong - 2013 to 2015

PHD SUPERVISION:

 (Completed, 2020-25): Dr. Danxue Zhou, "Reconfiguring Power Dynamics: Social Space in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction"

(Completed, 2020-25): Dr. Yue Zhou, "The Representation of the Anthropocene in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction"

Coordinator of PhD Reading Group on Cultural Studies: Representation, Discourse and Ideology (2020-2023)

Module Leader:

CCS409 China Studies Dissertation (PG, 2020-present)

CCS402 Contemporary Chinese Literature and Film (PG, 2019-present)

CCS307 Chinese Theatre and Performance (UG, 2017-present)

CCS206 Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature (UG, 2017-present)

Module Teacher:

CCS004 Introduction to China Studies (UG, 2021-present)

CCS901 Understanding China (UGPG, 2017-present)

CCS305 Final Year Project (UG, 2018-present)

COM207 Chinese Cinema (UG, 2018)

LAN102: Critical Thinking: The Self and The World (UG, 2017)

CCS002 China and the world (UG, 2016)

CCS101 Chinese Civilization: Thinkers and Ideas (UG, 2016)

2025 HSS Research Supervision Award

2025 HSS PhD Research Excellence Award (Supervisee: Yue Zhou)

2024 HSS PhD Research Excellence Award (Supervisee: Danxue Zhou)