Academic Staff
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Dr. LIU, Zifeng
劉紫豐博士

Assistant Professor, Department of History

 

PhD, Cornell University

MA, Beijing Foreign Studies University

MA, Brown University

BA, South-Central Minzu University

 

(852) 3411 6564

RESEARCH FOCUS

U.S. Social, Political, and Diplomatic History;

African American and African Diaspora History;

Afro-Asia;

Global Cold War;

Gender and Sexuality

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Articles

 

  • “Tracing the Chinese Arc of Black Internationalist Feminism: An Archive Story.” Made in China Journal (April 2024).

 

  • “Decolonization Is Not a Dinner Party: Claudia Jones, China’s Nuclear Weapons, and Revolutionary Violence.” The Journal of Intersectionality 3, no. 1 (Summer 2019 [2021]): 21-45.

 

Chapters

 

  • “‘Peace and Freedom—Inseparable’: Claudia Jones’s Afro-Asian Internationalism.” In Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities: An Anthology, edited by Rachel Kuo, Jaimee Swift, and Tiffany Diane Tso. Chicago: Haymarket Books, forthcoming.

 

  • “On the (Im)Possibility of Radical Chinese Student Activism in the United States.” In The China Question: Toward Left Perspectives, edited by Eli Friedman, Kevin Lin, and Ashley Smith. New York: Verso, 2022.

 

Reviews

 

  • “The Black Radical Tradition as a Source for Decolonizing Japan Studies.” positions politics (July 2024).

 

  • “Recovering the Entangled History of Political and Sexual Radicalism.” Women’s Studies Quarterly 51, no. 1 & 2 (Spring/Summer 2023): 215-219.

 

  • “Bedasse, Monique A. Jah Kingdom: Rastafarians, Tanzania, and Pan-Africanism in the Age of Decolonization.” The Journal of African American History 104, no. 2 (Spring 2019): 329-331.

 

Other Outputs

 

  • “The Alliance that Shook the World.” Sixth Tone, April 3, 2022.

 

  • “How the Cold War Challenged Sino-African American Solidarity.” Sixth Tone, April 4, 2022.

 

  •  “American Racial Capitalism and Police Violence 貫穿美國黑人歷史的種族資本主義與警察暴力.” The Paper 《澎湃新聞》, June 3, 2020.