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
ºù«Ӱҵ
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 University and my MA was from University College London, focused on film studies. I was awarded a PhD from the School of East Asian Studies at the University of ºù«Ӱҵ and joined as a teaching member in 2022.

Qualifications

PhD (ºù«Ӱҵ)

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 University Press. pp. 97-
112.