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LIU Dong is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chinese and History at the City University of Hong Kong. He received his Ph.D. from Peking University. 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 a book project based on his Ph.D. dissertation “The Cognitive Topos of ‘Northeastern Writers group’_Trans-local Circulations, (Inter-)nationalist Politics and Literary Production,” which aims to reevaluate the regional diversity and dynamism in the development of left-wing literature, both within China and globally, through borderland cases like Dongbei. The dissertation has received the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award from Peking University(2023) and the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Education (2025).

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.

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Dr. Liu Dong encompass a wide range of topics in modern Chinese literature, including but not limited to Chinese leftist literature, Dongbei studies, and Sino-American cultural relations. Building upon his previous studies, Dr. Liu'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 the global context. Dr. Liu also aims to reassess Sino-American cultural relations during World War Two and the early Cold War era by utilizing original documents and other archival materials from overseas sources. He is compiling a collection of Hu Shih's overseas correspondence, and an oral history collection focusing on May Fourth Intellectuals.

Welcome to email your application package directly to Dr. Liu Dong ([email protected]).

Ph.D. student positions with full scholarship: Please email your research plan, CV, writing sample, and other relevant materials. Applications without a submitted research plan will not receive a response. Consideration will be given only to applicants specializing in the following THREE topics: 1) Chinese left-wing literary studies through a Comintern perspective (proficiency in Russian); 2) Cantonese Literature in the Prism of Canton-Hong Kong-Shenzhen (proficiency in Cantonese); 3) Modern Chinese Literature and Its Informational Materiality (proficiency in the use of archival documents).

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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)