Jiacheng Liu

  • Assistant Professor
  • HISTORY

Institutional Affiliation

University of Northern 欧美口爆视频
Department of History

Education

Ph.D., History, Carnegie Mellon University

Research Interests

Modern Chinese history
Gender history
Urban culture
Theater and performance

Regional and Thematic Interests

East Asia
History and Modern Culture

Profile

Jiacheng Liu specializes on social and cultural history of modern China, with particular emphasis on the subfields of gender, urban culture, theatre and performance. Her current book project explores how actresses, previously banned by the Qing dynasty, entered into a male-dominated profession, reshaped the theatre repertoire and performance, and negotiated the social norms of gender and sexuality on and off stage. It highlights the role of actresses and their performance in creating 鈥渁lternative modernities鈥 as a process of indigenization and hybridization.

Selected Publications

鈥淭ransgressive Female Roles and the Embodiment of Actresses in 1910s Beijing鈥 Twentieth Century China 41:1, January 2016