Yuqing Liu teaches courses on Chinese and Sinophone literature and culture. She received her B.A. from Fudan University, M.A. from National Taiwan University, and Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. At the heart of her teaching lies a deep-rooted passion for Chinese literature, especially its intricate relationship with other literary traditions worldwide.

Her current research project explores the multifaceted dynamics of pidgin as portrayed in both Chinese and English literatures. Through the lens of pidgin, this research seeks to reconfigure understandings of translation, neologism, and language politics in modern China.

“Polyphonic Poetics: Reading Yang Shaoping’s Pidgin Bamboo Branch Lyrics.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 35, no.1 (2023): 1-27.

“Sinicizing European Languages: Lexicographical and Literary Practices of Pidgin English in Nineteenth-Century China.” Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies 22, no. 2 (2022): 135-158.

“Ghost from the Future: Countdown Temporalites in the Film Rouge.” In Issues of Far Eastern Literature, 322-337. St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg State University Press, 2022.

Review of Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860–1960, by Gina Anne Tam. Chinese Literature Today 9, no. 2 (November 2020), 91-92.