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Dr. Qiong Liu, Ph.D.

Dr. Qiong Liu, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Office: 337 Scott Shipp Hall

Phone: 337 Scott Shipp Hall 540-464-7256

Email: liuq@vmi.edu

Fields: Chinese History, Gender and Sexuality

Honors and Awards

  • VMI Jackson-Hope Faculty Travel Funds

Assistant professor Dr. Qiong Liu teaches the two-semester World History sequence as well as upper-division courses on the Chinese Communist Revolution, Imperial China, gender and sexuality, and the cultural history of martial arts. She came to VMI in 2022 after receiving degrees from Nanjing University and the University at Buffalo. Her current research projects focus on gendered violence in the Chinese Communist Revolution.

While at VMI, Liu serves as the advisor of the Martial Arts club, where she sweats with them, and is overwhelmed by punches, kicks, and kimura locks.

Courses Taught

Communist era since 1949
History of Imperial China
History of Chinese Martial Arts
Sexuality and Revolution in China
World History I and II

Publications

Books

  • Sullied Bodies, Revolutionary Fields: Sexuality, Class, and Gendered Violence in Chinese Land Reform (1945-1952), in progress.

 

Articles

  • “Doing Research on Pre-1949 Land Reform in China.” Special Issue for PRC History Review, September 2021
  • “Zhongzu yu xingbie zhi shang: Meiguo yayi nüxing ruhe lunwei shouhaizhe” (种族与性别之殇：美国亚裔女性如何沦为受害者, “The Traumatic Conjunction of Race and Gender: How do Asian American women become victims.” Hong Kong 01, March 29, 2021, com/週報/606591/種族與性別之殤-美國亞裔女性如何淪為受害者