Liu Hong 刘宏
Professor of Chinese Studies
Chair of Chinese Studies and Professor of East Asian Studies; Director of Centre for Chinese Studies and Confucius Institute, University of Manchester.
Born in Fujian, Hong Liu was educated in Xiamen and Fudan Universities. He was a lecturer at Xiamen University for two years before he went to the Netherlands and the USA to do research and Ph.D. studies. Upon completing his Ph.D. he was offered a position as an assistant professor at the Department of Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore, where he taught between 1995 and 2006. He was awarded tenure in 2000 and served as the Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Convener of the University’s China Studies Minor Program. He also served as a visiting fellow at Kyoto, Harvard, and Stockholm Universities for a cumulative period of about two years.
When the University of Manchester decided in 2005 to set up the Centre for Chinese Studies, which is a faculty-level institute devoted to both teaching and research on China, Liu was recruited through a global search process to be its founding director as well as the director of newly established Confucius Institute, a partnership with Beijing Normal University. Apart from teaching at the Centre for Chinese Studies, he is also a guest professor for the Executive MBA programme at Manchester Business School on subject relating to Chinese entrepreneurship and transnational corporations. Since March 2008 he has also been selected by the Chinese Ministry of Education as a Yangtze Professor at the Research School of Asian-Pacific Studies in Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou (Canton).
His research interests include the Chinese Diaspora (in Southeast Asia and the UK in particular) and their linkages with China, China’s relations with the Asian neighbours, social, business and knowledge networks, and socio-cultural changes in Transnational China. His main publications include Images, Metaphors and Postcolonial Transformation: A Study of Sino-Indonesian Interactions; The Chinese Overseas (editor); Singapore Chinese Society in Transition: Business, Politics and Socio-Economic Change, 1945-1965; China and Southeast Asia: Changing Socio-Cultural Interactions (co-editor); and Sino-Southeast Asian Studies: Toward a New Analytical Paradigm (author) as well as more than 70 academic articles published in journal such as the World Politics, Critical Asian Studies, Asian Studies Review, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, The China Quarterly, and Journal of Contemporary China.
He is currently undertaking a British Academy-sponsored research project on the UK's changing policies toward migrations with a special reference to Chinese migration to the UK/EU. He is also the Program Director (Academic) of the "Study China Programme," fully funded by the Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) and the Scottish Government, which sends some 450 UK university students to China each year with an aim to equip the young generation of British students with a close understanding of the changing China and its implications for Britain. In 2008 he won another competitive funding from the Research Councils UK-China Office to organise an advanced summer school for PhD students and junior researchers from both China and the UK, focusing on China from Local and Transnational Perspectives.
Apart from taking part in various academic professional organisations, Hong Liu is a member of Executive Council and Experts Committee, Universities’ China Committee in London since 2006 and a Member of the Shanghai Commission on the Overseas Chinese Policy. He is also involved in the Chinese community activities in Northwest England.
Hong Liu lives and works in the Manchester/Northwest England.
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Born in Fujian, Hong Liu was educated in Xiamen and Fudan Universities. He was a lecturer at Xiamen University for two years before he went to the Netherlands and the USA to do research and Ph.D. studies. Upon completing his Ph.D. he was offered a position as an assistant professor at the Department of Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore, where he taught between 1995 and 2006. He was awarded tenure in 2000 and served as the Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Convener of the University’s China Studies Minor Program. He also served as a visiting fellow at Kyoto, Harvard, and Stockholm Universities for a cumulative period of about two years.
When the University of Manchester decided in 2005 to set up the Centre for Chinese Studies, which is a faculty-level institute devoted to both teaching and research on China, Liu was recruited through a global search process to be its founding director as well as the director of newly established Confucius Institute, a partnership with Beijing Normal University. Apart from teaching at the Centre for Chinese Studies, he is also a guest professor for the Executive MBA programme at Manchester Business School on subject relating to Chinese entrepreneurship and transnational corporations. Since March 2008 he has also been selected by the Chinese Ministry of Education as a Yangtze Professor at the Research School of Asian-Pacific Studies in Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou (Canton).
His research interests include the Chinese Diaspora (in Southeast Asia and the UK in particular) and their linkages with China, China’s relations with the Asian neighbours, social, business and knowledge networks, and socio-cultural changes in Transnational China. His main publications include Images, Metaphors and Postcolonial Transformation: A Study of Sino-Indonesian Interactions; The Chinese Overseas (editor); Singapore Chinese Society in Transition: Business, Politics and Socio-Economic Change, 1945-1965; China and Southeast Asia: Changing Socio-Cultural Interactions (co-editor); and Sino-Southeast Asian Studies: Toward a New Analytical Paradigm (author) as well as more than 70 academic articles published in journal such as the World Politics, Critical Asian Studies, Asian Studies Review, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, The China Quarterly, and Journal of Contemporary China.
He is currently undertaking a British Academy-sponsored research project on the UK's changing policies toward migrations with a special reference to Chinese migration to the UK/EU. He is also the Program Director (Academic) of the "Study China Programme," fully funded by the Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) and the Scottish Government, which sends some 450 UK university students to China each year with an aim to equip the young generation of British students with a close understanding of the changing China and its implications for Britain. In 2008 he won another competitive funding from the Research Councils UK-China Office to organise an advanced summer school for PhD students and junior researchers from both China and the UK, focusing on China from Local and Transnational Perspectives.
Apart from taking part in various academic professional organisations, Hong Liu is a member of Executive Council and Experts Committee, Universities’ China Committee in London since 2006 and a Member of the Shanghai Commission on the Overseas Chinese Policy. He is also involved in the Chinese community activities in Northwest England.
Hong Liu lives and works in the Manchester/Northwest England.
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