Dr Xi Liu

School of East Asian Studies

Teaching Associate in East Asian Studies

Dr XI Liu
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xi-liu@sheffield.ac.uk
Jessop West

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Dr Xi Liu
School of East Asian Studies
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
Sheffield
S3 7RA
Profile

I am trained as a film scholar with strength in film philosophy and critical theory on gender. My first degree was in English and
Communication Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong and Liverpool º£½ÇÉçÇø and my MA was from º£½ÇÉçÇø College London, focused on film studies. I was awarded a PhD from the School of East Asian Studies at the º£½ÇÉçÇø of Sheffield and joined as a teaching member in 2022.

Qualifications

PhD (º£½ÇÉçÇø)

Research interests

I have broad research interests in screen, media, and culture studies. I mainly focus on the display of film aesthetics, sensation, and perception in various contexts and work on both traditional written form and creative visual expression.
I am currently working on two projects. Both show global concerns that reveal hidden and marginal worlds on the screen. One is a book-length research on film perception and affect theory and focuses on the philosophical debate around the Chinese idea of yijing (milieu of ideation). For the other, I am exploring the queer representations of gender-role and childbirth in Chinese cinema.

Teaching activities

EAS 31002 Researching East Asia
EAS 31003 East Asia Research Project 1
EAS 6353/6453 Media, State, and Society in China
EAS 6208 Media, Culture and Society and East Asia

Publications

Liu, X.W. (2023) Becoming-monster: Ecoaesthetics and feminist
criticism of Chinese animation White Snake (2019), East Asian
Journal of Popular Culture, 9 (1), 119-
135, DOI:

Liu, X. W. (2023), ‘Queer sensation and non-representational
queer reading: a case study of Wu Hao’s All in My
Family’, Studies in Documentary Film, 17(3), 240-254
DOI: 


Liu, X. W. (2022), ‘Spatial perception: aesthetics of yijing in
transnational kung fu films’, in Kyong-Mcclain, J., Meeuf, R. and
Chang, J. (eds.), Chinese Cinema: Identity, Power, and
Globalization. Hong Kong: Hong Kong º£½ÇÉçÇø Press. pp. 97-
112.