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Jin Liu
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Jin Liu received her Ph.D. in East Asian Literature from Cornell University (2008) and her M.A. in Chinese Linguistics (2000) and B.A. (1997) in Chinese Language and Literature from Peking University in China. She joined the faculty in the School of Modern Languages in 2008. Her interdisciplinary research studies contemporary Chinese popular culture through the lens of (local) language. She has published articles in journals including Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese, Chinese Language and Discourse, and Harvard Asia Pacific Review. She recently co-edited the book, "Chinese Under Globalization: Emerging Trends in Language Use in China" (World Scientific, 2012). She is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively entitled "Signifying the Local: Media Productions Rendered in Local Languages in Mainland China in the New Millennium." Drawing on cultural and literary theories, media studies, and sociolinguistics, this book project will examine recent cultural productions rendered in local languages in the fields of film, television, the Internet, popular music, and fiction in mainland China.
Dr. Liu teaches Chinese language and contemporary Chinese culture at Georgia Tech. She alternately co-directs the GT School of Modern Languages' intensive summer Chinese language program in Shanghai, Chinese LBAT. Before joining Georgia Tech, she taught Chinese language and culture at Cornell University, Middlebury College summer Chinese school, and Princeton University intensive summer program in Beijing (PIB). Dr. Liu received the Georgia Tech 2012 CETL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence and the Class of 1934 Course Survey Teaching Effectiveness Award (2010-2011).
Publications
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Chinese Under Globalization: Emerging Trends in Language Use in China. co-edited with Hongyin Tao (UCLA), Singapore; London: World Scientific, 2012.
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"“Alternative Voice and Local Youth Identity in Chinese Local-Language Rap Music,” positions: East Asia Cultures Critique (Duke University Press), provincially accepted."
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"“Deviant Writing and Youth Identity: Representation of Dialects with Chinese Characters on the Internet,” Chinese Language and Discourse, vol. 2, no. 1, 2011, 58-79."
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"“Ambivalent Laughter: Comic Sketches in CCTV’s Spring Festival Eve Gala.” Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese (JMLC), vol. 10, no. 1, 2010, 103-121."
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"“The Use of Chinese Dialects on the Internet: Youth Language and Local Youth Identity in Urban China,” in Vallah, Gurkensalat 4U & me! Youth Language in the Study of Youth Language, edited by J. Normann Jørgensen, Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2010, 99-112. "
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"(with Hongyin Tao) “Negotiating Linguistic Identities under Globalization: Language Use in Contemporary China,” Harvard Asia Pacific Review, Vol. 10, Number 1, Spring 2009, 7-10."
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"“The Rhetoric of Local Languages as the Marginal: Chinese Underground and Independent Films by Jia Zhangke and Others.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (MCLC), vol. 18, no.2, 2006, 163-205."
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"“Xiangning fangyan de wenbai yidu” (The co-existence of colloquial and literary pronunciations in the Shanxi Xiangning dialect). Yuwen Yanjiu (Research in Chinese Language), no. 78. 1, 2001, 35-45."