Jin Liu
Assistant Professor of Chinese
School of Modern Languages
Ivan Allen College
The Georgia Institute of Technology
(April 2013)
I. EARNED DEGREES
Ph. D. 2008 Cornell University East Asian Literature & Culture
M. A. 2001 Cornell University Asian Studies
M. A. 2000 Beijing (Peking) University, China Chinese Linguistics
B. A. 1997 Beijing (Peking) University, China Chinese Language and Literature
(concentration in Chinese Linguistics)
II. EMPLOYMENT
2008-present Assistant Professor of Chinese, School of Modern Languages Georgia Institute of Technology
III. TEACHING
A. COURSES TAUGHT
Spring 2013 CHIN 4004 Advanced Chinese III: 8 students
Contemporary China
CHN 2002 Intermediate Chinese II 22 students
Fall 2012 CHIN 4003 Advanced Chinese II: 5 students
Contemporary China
Spring 2012 CHIN 4004 Advanced Chinese III: 11 students
Contemporary China
Fall 2011 CHIN 4003 Advanced Chinese II: 7 students
Contemporary China
Summer 2011 CHIN 3693 Conversation Practicum 26 students
(co-taught)
Spring 2011 CHIN 4004 Advanced Chinese III: 10 students
Contemporary China
CHN 2002 Intermediate Chinese II 22 students
Fall 2010 CHIN 4003 Advanced Chinese II: 16 students
Contemporary China
CHIN 2001 Intermediate Chinese I 16 students
Spring 2010 CHIN 4004 Advanced Chinese III: 10 students
Contemporary China
Fall 2009 CHIN 3813 Special Topics: 15 students
Advanced Chinese II
CHIN 2002 Intermediate Chinese II 6 students
Summer 2009 CHIN 3691 Chinese for Current Events 11 students
Spring 2009 CHIN 4813 Special Topics: 13 students
Advanced Chinese III
CHIN 2002 Intermediate Chinese II 15 students
Fall 2008 CHIN 3813 Special Topics: 10 students
Advanced Chinese II
CHIN 2001 Intermediate Chinese I 7 students
B. INDIVIDUAL STUDENT GUIDANCE
Summer 2009 CHIN 4699 Undergraduate Research Thomas Hazzard
C. OTHER TEACHING ACTIVITIES
1. Curriculum Development at Georgia Tech
a. Participating in the curriculum development of the ML new course Freshman Seminar “Think Globally, Act Locally,” team-taught by faculty members from 5 languages: Spanish, German, French, Chinese, and Japanese, theme on marginality for the Fall 2013.
b. Developing a new core course for the GT Chinese ROTC Flagship Program and for the Chinese ALIS major: CHIN 4031 “Chinese-Language Cinema: Modern China through Film and Fiction.”
c. Developing a new course for the Chinese ALIS major and the ML Linguistics Program: CHIN 3813 “Chinese Socio-Cultural Linguistics,” to be offered in Spring 2014.
d. Developed and Improved LBAT Curriculum in 2011: set up a framework to operate a big, expanding program; recruited, supervised, and coordinated with 5 local teachers; revamped the syllabi of the three courses CHIN 3691, 3692, and 3693 for the Shanghai program, adopted two most widely-used textbooks; implemented “Language Pledge,” which required students to speak Mandarin only during the program period in Shanghai.
e. Developed and Improved LBAT Curriculum in 2009: added a one-on-one individual conversation session; coordinated with the host institution to offer three free cultural courses in Taiji (Tai Chi), Chinese cooking, and martial arts; organized interactions with the host Shanghai Jiaotong University (SJTU) students, local families and residents; integrated classroom learning with field trips and site visits; designed and conducted student questionnaires, etc.
f. Fall 2008-present: Developed and taught two new 4th-year Chinese courses (approved by the IUCC in September 2009): CHIN 3813/4003 “Advanced Chinese II: Contemporary China” and CHIN 4813/4004 “Advanced Chinese III: Contemporary China.” Introduced the textbook, Anything Goes: An Advanced Reader of Modern Chinese by Princeton University Press; developed a curriculum with a good balance between heritage learners and non-heritage learners; integrated a wide range of multimedia materials drawn from contemporary Chinese films, documentaries, television shows, music, images, and pictures.
g. Fall 2010-present: worked with the GT Library Reserves to upload the Integrated Chinese textbook and workbook CD online for the CHIN 1001-2002, an effort that has vastly improved the learning facilities for the tech-savvy students at GT.
2. Intensive Summer Chinese Programs
a. June-Aug 2006. Middlebury Summer Chinese School, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
Taught third-year intermediate Chinese, taught drill sections and lecture classes alternately, conducted one-on-one individual sessions, attended class-preparation sessions, and led the singing club of the Chinese School
b. June-Aug 2004. Princeton University Intensive Chinese Summer Program in Beijing (PIB), Beijing Normal University, Beijing
Taught fifth-year advanced Chinese, taught drill and discussion sections, conducted individual tutorials, led “Chinese table” lunches, attended class-preparation sessions, participated in fieldtrips and other cultural activities in Beijing, and assisted in the recruitment of local teachers and in the collaboration with the host institution
3. 2001-2006. Teaching Assistant, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
-Led three discussion sections (roughly 80 undergraduate students each year) in ASIAN 212 “Introduction to China,” a cultural course dealing with topics ranging from oracle bone inscriptions to imperial civil service examinations to modern short stories (Spring 2006, Spring 2005)
-Taught Chinese 109 “Beginning Reading and Writing in Mandarin” for heritage learners (Fall 2005, Fall 2003)
-Taught the drill sections in Chinese 101 and Chinese 102 “Colloquial Chinese” for beginners (Fall 2001-Spring 2002)
IV. SCHOLARLY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
A. PUBLISHED BOOKS AND PARTS OF BOOKS
A.1. BOOKS
Signifying the Local: Media Productions Rendered in Local Languages in Mainland China in the New Millennium. Leiden; Boston: Brill, under contract, approximately 400 pp.
Chinese under Globalization: Emerging Trends in Language Use in China. Ed. Jin Liu and Hongyin Tao. Singapore and London: World Scientific, 2012. (218pp)
A.2. REFEREED BOOK CHAPTERS
“The Use of Chinese Dialects on the Internet: Youth Language and Local Youth Identity in Urban China.” In Vallah, Gurkensalat 4U & me! Current Perspectives in the Study of Youth Language. Ed. J. Normann Jørgensen. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2010, 99–112. (A revised and extended version appears in Liu and Tao [ed.], Chinese under Globalization, 59–78.)
A.3. OTHER PARTS OF BOOKS
“Negotiating Linguistic Identities under Globalization: Language Use in Contemporary China” (with Hongyin Tao, 50% self-contribution). In Chinese under Globalization. Ed. Jin Liu and Hongyin Tao. Singapore and London: World Scientific, 2012, 203–212. (An earlier version appeared in Harvard Asia Pacific Review 10.1 (2009): 7–10.)
“Introduction,” (with Hongyin Tao, 50% self-contribution). In Chinese under Globalization. Ed. Jin Liu and Hongyin Tao. Singapore and London: World Scientific, 2012, 1–5.
B. REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
B.1. REFEREED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
“Alternative Voice and Local Youth Identity in Chinese Local-Language Rap Music,”
positions: asia critique 22.1 (2014), forthcoming, approximately 42 pp.
“Deviant Writing and Youth Identity: Representation of Dialects with Chinese Characters
on the Internet,” Chinese Language and Discourse 2.1 (2011): 58–79.
“Ambivalent Laughter: Comic Sketches in CCTV’s Spring Festival Eve Gala,” Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese (JMLC) 10.1 (2010): 103–121.
“The Rhetoric of Local Languages as the Marginal: Chinese Underground and
Independent Films by Jia Zhangke and Others.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture
(MCLC) 18.2 (2006): 163–205.
“Xiangning fangyan de wenbai yidu” [The co-existence of colloquial pronunciation and
literary pronunciation in the Shanxi Xiangning dialect], Yuwen yanjiu [Linguistic researches]
78.1 (2001): 35–45.
C. OTHER PUBLICATIONS
PROCEEDINGS:
“Dui wuti guyou fangwei tezheng ‘qian, hou, zuo, you’ de kaocha” [A cognitive-semantic study of the orientational words “front, back, left, and right”], Mianlin xinshiji tiaozhan de xiandai hanyu yufa yanjiu: 98 xiandai hanyu yufaxue guoji xueshu huiyi lunwenji [Proceedings of the 1998 international conference on modern Chinese grammar]. Ed. Lu Jianming, Shen Yang, and Yuan Yulin. Jinan: Shandong Education Press, 2000, 684–695.
DICTIONARY ENTRIES:
“Yuyanxuejia Fang Guangtao” [The linguist Fang Guangtao], Ershi shiji zhongguo xueshu dadian: Yuyanxue [The encyclopedia of the twentieth-century Chinese academia: The volume of Chinese linguistics]. Chief Editor Lin Tao. Fuzhou: Fujian Education Press, 2002, 264–265.
“Yufa yanjiu he tansuo” [The Journal Research and Exploration in Chinese Grammar (8 volumes)],” Ershi shiji zhongguo xueshu dadian: Yuyanxue [The encyclopedia of the twentieth-century Chinese academia: the volume of Chinese linguistics]. Chief Editor Lin Tao. Fuzhou: Fujian Education Press, 2002, 322–323.
D. PRESENTATIONS
Submitted
• “A Historical Review of the Discourse of the Local in Twentieth-Century China,” to be presented at the Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ), Tokyo, Japan, June 29-30, 2013.
• “The Mute Characters in Contemporary Chinese Cinema of Trauma and History,” to be presented at the international conference “Traumatic Memory and Cultural Representation: How Literature Writes History,” Capital Normal University, Beijing, May 26-29, 2013.
• “Ning Hao’s Blockbuster Crazy Stone and the Recent Trend of Low-Budget Comedy Films,” conference “Cultural Politics in the Visual,” Emory University, Atlanta, GA, November 8-9, 2012.
• “Psychological Subjectivity in the Use of Sound and Language in Jiang Wen’s Devils on the Doorstep and Lu Chuan’s Missing Gun,” 54th annual conference of the American Association for Chinese Studies (AACS), Atlanta, GA, October 12-14, 2012.
• “Alternative Translation: The Performativity in Dubbing Films in Chinese Local Languages,” annual conference of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Toronto, Canada, March 15-18, 2012.
• “Alternative Voice and Local Youth Identity in Chinese Local-Language Rap Music,” annual joint conference of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) & International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS), Honolulu, HI, March 31- April 3, 2011.
• “Alternative Voice and Local Youth Identity in Chinese Local-Language Rap Music,” conference “In the Mix: Asian Popular Music and Culture,” Princeton University, NJ, March 25-26, 2011.
• “Alternative Voice and Local Youth Identity in Chinese Local-Language Rap Music,” 2nd Inter-Asia Popular Music Studies Conference (IAPMS), Hong Kong, June 22-23, 2010.
• “Subversive Writing, Local Identity, and Diaspora: Representation of Dialects with Chinese Characters on the Internet,” the panel “Other Script Politics” at the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) annual meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 1-4, 2010.
• “The Rhetoric of Chinese Local Language as the Marginal in Jia Zhangke’s films,” the panel “Listening in/to Documentary” at the Visible Evidence XVI conference, Los Angeles, CA, August 13-17, 2009.
• “Performativity in Dubbing Films in Chinese Local Languages,” 48th annual Southeast conference of the Association for Asian Studies (SEC/AAS), Emory University, Atlanta, GA, January 16-18, 2009.
• “A Proposal to Integrate Dialect Films in Advanced Chinese Language Teaching,” ACTFL/CLTA annual conference, Orlando, FL, November 21-23, 2008.
• “The Use of Popular Songs in Jia Zhangke’s Films,” 62nd annual Conference of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA), Reno, NV, October 9-11, 2008.
• “Popular Music and Local Youth Identity in the Age of the Internet: A Case Study of Shanghai Rap and SHN Website,” Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Atlanta, GA, April 3-6, 2008.
• “The Use of Chinese Local Languages on the Internet: Youth Language and Local Youth Identity in Urban China,” Fifth International Conference on Youth Language, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, March 27-29, 2008.
• “Performativity in Dubbing Classical Films in Chinese Local Languages,” International Conference on Canon (Re-)Formation in the Context of Cultural Studies, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China, May 2005.
• “The Use of Language in City of Sadness,” New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS), University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, October 2003.
Invited
• “Alternative Voice and Youth Subcultural Identity: The Emerging Rap Music Scene in China,” invited lecture at Emory University, Atlanta, GA, October 20, 2009.
• “Working from the Margins: the Chinese Underground and Independent Films since the 1990s,” a bilingual talk given at Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, July 2006.
V. SERVICE
A. PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS
December 2012 Reviewed a book proposal for Palgrave Macmillan
January 2012 Reviewed a journal article for Chinese Language and Discourse
August 2011-present Associate of the China Research Center, a local academic organization of scholars in China Studies in Georgia and the Southeast
- Coordinated to have Professor Perry Link as the CRC annual event speaker in 2013; organized and introduced his luncheon talk on “An Anatomy of Chinese: Rhythm, Metaphor, Politics”; facilitated to have the School of Modern Languages (guest lecture series) as a co-sponsor of the event
June-October 2011 Reviewed a journal article for Popular Music
December 2010 Reviewed a journal article for Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association
August 2010 Reviewed a journal article for Modern Chinese Literature and
Culture
July 2009 Reviewed a journal article for Chinese Language and Discourse
February 25, 2009 Judge, Chinese Speech Contest, Emory University
B. CAMPUS CONTRIBUTIONS
1. Chinese LBAT Recruiting, Development, Co-Directing, and Teaching
a. Took full responsibility for Chinese LBAT 2011 Recruiting
Recruited 26 students (record high), including 6 ROTC students and 4 non-GT students; worked with my colleague to extend the program from 6 weeks to 8 weeks, offering an additional, optional 2-week program in Qingdao; developed and led the cultural and business sites visits and other extracurricular activities in Qingdao; upgraded the LBAT website and made it more informative and resourceful; GT Chinese Classes Promotion Presentations; GT Study Abroad Fair; Chinese LBAT Information Session and Dinner.
b. Took full responsibility for Chinese LBAT 2009 Recruiting
Recruited 11 students (record high); GT Chinese Classes Promotion Presentations; GT Study Abroad Fair; Chinese LBAT New Year Dinner.
2. Assistant Director, the Pilot ROTC Chinese Flagship at GT, a grant of $720,000 (2011-2013) from the National Security Education Program and the Institute of International Education, Fall 2011-present
- assisted in the proposal writing (summer 2011)
- assisting program management and curriculum development
- served on the search committee to recruit a full-time flagship lecturer (fall 2011)
- attended the annual flagship conference in Portland, Oregon (May 2012)
- visited North Georgia College and State University and explored possible collaborations between the two ROTC Flagship programs (July 2012)
- collaborated with the colleagues and hosted the visit by the IIE (October 2012)
- will attend the annual flagship conference in Oxford, Mississippi (May 2013)
3. Scholarship selection committee of Coca-Cola Foundation “100,000 Strong” Student Scholarship to China, $200,000 (2011-2014), Fall 2011-present
- worked with Phil Mcknight, Juan McGruder, and Amy Henry on the initial writing of
the proposal in the summer 2011
-reviewing applications and making selection for three terms annually: summer, semester-long, and year-long
4. Coordinated with the Chinese General Consulate in Houston to secure three Chinese