Lydia H. Liu
{{Short description|Chinese American academic}}
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Lydia He Liu ({{zh|s=刘禾}}){{Cite web |title=专访刘禾丨翻译也是战场——语言之间的对等与全球关系的不对等 |url=https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_16501781 |access-date=2022-05-13 |website=m.thepaper.cn}} is a theorist of media and translation and a scholar of comparative literature. She is the Wun Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University.{{Cite web |title=Lydia H. Liu |url=http://ealac.columbia.edu/lydia-h-liu/ |access-date=2022-05-10 |website=ealac.columbia.edu}}
Biography
Liu received a BA from Northwest Normal University in Lanzhou, China. She then received an MA from Shandong University and PhD from Harvard University.
She taught at University of California, Berkeley from 1990 to 2002 and was the William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures. She also taught at the University of Michigan from 2004 to 2006 and held the chair of the Helmut Stern Professorship in Chinese Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature before joining the Columbia faculty in 2006.{{Cite web |title=Lydia Liu |url=http://www.columbia.edu/~ll2410/biography.htm |access-date=2022-05-10 |website=www.columbia.edu}} Her scholarship has focused on modern China, cross-cultural cultural exchanges, and global transformation in modern history.
Liu established the Tsinghua-Columbia University Center for Translingual and Transcultural Studies at Tsinghua University in 2011.{{Cite web |title=Tsinghua-Columbia University Center for Translingual and Transcultural Studies Launched at Tsinghua-School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Tsinghua University |url=https://www.rwxy.tsinghua.edu.cn/shssen/info/1007/1107.htm |access-date=2022-05-10 |website=www.rwxy.tsinghua.edu.cn}}
Liu was a fellow of the National Humanities Center from 1997 to 1998.{{Cite web |title=Lydia H. Liu, 1997–1998 |url=https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/fellow/lydia-h-liu-1997-1998/ |access-date=2022-05-10 |website=National Humanities Center |language=en-US}} She was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1997.
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