Asst. Prof. Junmin Liu
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Contacts

☎+853 85902770
✉ junminliu@cityu.edu.mo
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Academic Qualifications:

Australian National University, Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Research, 2023                         

Columbia University, M.A. in East Asian Languages and Cultures, 2018

Peking University, B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature, 2016               

 

Courses Taught:

GEF005: Chinese Language and Culture (undergraduate level)

MCM007: Intangible Cultural Heritage Studies (graduate level)

MAL122: Vocabulary and Grammar Theory and Practice (graduate level)

MCM010: Comparison between Chinese and Western Cultures (graduate level)   

MAL121: TCSOL Pedagogy (graduate level)

DCI013: Frontiers of Aesthetic Theories (doctoral level)

 

Research Area / Research Interests:

Cultural heritage; everyday life; anthropology/ethnography

 

Recent Major Publications (recent 5 years):

Books

  1. Liu, J. (2025), Heritage and homemaking of Yi migrant workers in Shenzhen, China. Routledge. www.routledge.com/9781032990651
  2. Liu, J. & Cheng, F. (Eds.) (under contract), Chinese Borderlands in Transition: Mobility, Penetration, and Transformation. Amsterdam University Press.

 

Peer-reviewed journal articles (* corresponding author) 

  1. Liu, J. (2024). A Systematic Review of Intangible Cultural Heritage Development in Macau: Historical Perspectives, Current Research, and Future Directions (in Chinese). Journal of Macau Studies 113, 81-96.
  2. Liu, J. (2024). Navigating Home in Migration: Yi Migrant Workers and Their Homemaking Experiences in Shenzhen Factories. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2024.2380709  
  3. Yan, W., Liu, J.* & Zhu, Y. (2023). Honeymoon Tourism as Romantic Consumption in China. Via Tourism Review, 24. 
  4. Zhou, Y. & Liu, J. (2023). The Predicament of Suzhou Embroidery: Implications of Intangible Cultural Heritage in China. TEXTILE - Cloth and Culture, https://doi.org/10.1080/14759756.2023.2228024
  5. Zhu, Y. & Liu, J. (2021). Cultural Reproduction: Ethnic Festivals as Intangible Cultural Heritage in China. Loisir et Société / Society and Leisure, 44(3), 415–428. https://doi.org/10.1080/07053436.2021.1999090

 

Book chapters

  1. Liu, J. (2025). Reconstructing the Yi identity through popular music and social media in China. In Ana-Maria Herman (Ed.), Mobile Heritage: Practices, Interventions, Politics, 156–168. Routledge. 
  2. Zhu, Y. & Liu, J. (2025). Intangible Cultural Heritage as Co-creation: Challenges, Pathways and Conditions. In A. Edmundson & M. Haviland (Eds.), Co-creation and Collaboration in Museums, Heritage and the Arts, 276–286. Routledge.

 

Book reviews

  1. Liu, J. (2023). Book review: Diaspora space-time: transformations of a Chinese emigrant community, by Anne-Christine Trémon. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. China Perspectives/Perspectives Chinoises (133), pp. 91-92.
  2. Liu, J. (2023). Book review: Affective Geographies and Narratives of Chinese Diaspora, edited by M. Yunzi Li & R. T. Tally Jr. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, Spring 2023 issue, 77-1, pp. 107-109. 

 

 

Honors and Awards: 

Teaching Excellence for Junior Academics, City University of Macau, 2025


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