Liu received a BA from
Northwest Normal University in
Lanzhou, China. She then received an MA from
Shandong University and PhD from
Harvard University. Her scholarship has focused on modern China, cross-cultural cultural exchanges, and global transformation in modern history. Liu established the Tsinghua-Columbia University Center for Translingual and Transcultural Studies at
Tsinghua University in 2011. Liu was a fellow of the
National Humanities Center from 1997 to 1998. She was the recipient of a
Guggenheim Fellowship in 1997. == References ==