Student Profile

Ting Liu

Ting Liu is a PhD candidate at the Department of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, the Australian National University. She received her BA in Chinese Language and Literature from Wuhan University, China in 1994, and her MA (with Honours) in Journalism and Mass Communication from Griffith University in 2003.

Her current dissertation focuses on the reconstruction of social boundaries in women's cyberspaces in the People's Republic of China and Hong Kong. She has written several articles on Chinese women's literature and gendered cyberspace, including 'The initial research of the Chinese female literature in the first half of the 20th century' in the Journal of Humanities (2002), and 'Cyberactivism in the women's movement: a comparison of feminist practices by women organising in mainland China and Hong Kong' in (ed) Chinese Women and Cybernetwork (in press).

Ting has been teaching courses including Chinese Language and Society, Histories of Modern China, Chinese Calligraphy, Chinese Fictions, Gender in China and Modern Chinese at the ANU since 2004.

E-mail: ting.liu@anu.edu.au