Prof. LIU Dong (劉東)

LIU Dong is Assistant Professor in the Department of Chinese and History at the City University of Hong Kong. He received his Ph.D. from Peking University, where he was also awarded the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award (2023). He specializes in the history of modern Chinese literature, while his research interests include Chinese leftist literature, Dongbei studies, and Sino-American cultural relations.

LIU Dong's recent research focuses on exploring the theoretical potential of the concept of REGION in Chinese literary studies and seeks to shed new light on the mechanisms that underlie modern Chinese literature in the framework of region, nation, and global context. He is currently working on his first project “The Cognitive Topos of ‘Northeastern Writers group’_Trans-local Circulations, (Inter-)nationalist Politics and Literary Production”. He is also compiling a collection of Hu Shih’s overseas correspondence. His second book project will center on the role played by “Pamphlet”/ (Chinese) Zine culture in the modern Chinese cultural sphere.

He earned his BA (2017) from Peking University. In 2022, he served as visiting staff at EALC, Harvard University.

劉東，北京大學中文系現當代文學方向博士，美國哈佛大學東亞系聯合培養博士生（2022-2023），獲北京大學中文系學士學位。主要研究領域為中國左翼文學研究、東北文學與文化研究，關注中國新詩史與當代詩歌批評，也從事胡適海外佚信的蒐集與整理工作。博士論文為《跨域流動中的文學與政治——重繪“東北作家群”的認知地圖（1931-1948）》，獲北京大學優秀博士學位論文獎（2023）。曾在《文學評論》《中國現代文學研究叢刊》《文藝爭鳴》等發表學術期刊論文十餘篇，並有多篇文章獲《新華文摘》《人大複印資料》全文轉引。

劉東目前正在撰寫以博士論文為基礎的書稿《跨域流動中的文學與政治：東北作家群的「世界」與「視界」》，他還計劃將此前蒐集的海外藏胡適英文佚信進行系統整理。他的第二個研究計劃將圍繞「小冊子」這種具有過渡性質的書籍裝幀形秩在現代中國文學與文化中所扮演的作用展開。

Modern Chinese Literature

Dongbei Studies

Global leftist literature

Sino-American cultural relations

Modern Chinese Literature (Fall 2023)

Great Works in Humanities (Fall 2023, Spring 2024)

Special Topics on Modern Chinese Literature (Spring 2024)