Jin Liu
Jin LiuDr. Liu teaches Chinese language and culture in the School of Modern languages at Georgia Tech. She received her Ph.D. in East Asian Literature from Cornell University and her M.A. and B.A. in Chinese Linguistics from Peking University. She recently completed a co-edited book entitled “Chinese Under Globalization: Emerging Trends in Language Use in China.” She is currently working on a book manuscript on the cultural productions rendered in local languages in the fields of film, television, the Internet, popular music, and fiction over the past decade in mainland China.
Tonio Andrade
Tonio Andrade teaches history at Emory University. His major Books are How Taiwan Became Chinese (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007) and Lost Colony: The Untold Story of Europe’s First War with China (Princeton University Press, 2011). Tonio’s research is part of a new field in historical studies known as Global History, which focuses on commonalities and connections between the myriad societies on the planet rather than on traditionally-defined political or cultural units. His core geographical area of expertise is China, specifically Taiwan, but he focuses on maritime interconnections in the Early Modern Period (1500-1800).
Qi Wang
Qi Wang is an assistant Professor in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture at Georgia Institute of Technology. She has a Ph.D in Film and Television from the University of California, Los Angeles (2008). Her research interests include issues of historicity, spatiality, and physicality in cinema and new media; Chinese cinema; documentary; Cold War Asian Cinema; dance film. She is currently writing a book on contemporary independent Chinese cinema and media and their relationship with (post-) socialist historical memory.
