Liu Yang The convergence of intercultural communication and migration studies grounds my research. As a qualitative researcher, I employ multiple research methods to explore such topics as discourses of Othering, reconfiguration of whiteness, everyday Otherness, agency, and expected social support of international migrants. TITLE/POSITION: Associate Professor
EMAIL: vivian.liu@bfsu.edu.cn
DEGREES • PhD: the University of Oklahoma (majoring in Intercultural Communication, 2011-2017) • MA: Nanjing University (majoring in Communication, 2005-2008) • BA: Xi’an International Studies University (majoring in Journalism, 2001-2005)
ACADEMIC POSITIONS • Associate Professor (2022 to present) • Assistant Professor (2017-2022)
TEACHING • Graduate-Level Courses - Cultural Theories and Cultural Studies - Cross-border Migration between the U.S. and China - Cultural Sociology • Undergraduate-Level Courses - Intercultural Communication - Cultural Theories and Popular Culture - Cultural Sociology
RESEARCH INTERESTS • intercultural communication • international student mobility • cross-border mobility • grounded theory
RESEARCH PROJECTS • Humanities and Social Sciences Youth Foundation by the Ministry of Education, the People’s Republic of China (Project No.: 18YJCZH108, completed); • Social Science Grant by Beijing Federation of Social Science Circles (Project No.: 18JDXCB002, completed).
ACADEMIC SERVICES • Deputy Secretary General of China Association for Intercultural Communication; • Editor of Intercultural Studies Forum • Director of Intercultural Research Center, SEIS • Reviewer for SSCI-indexed journals, such as Ethnicities, International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Language and Intercultural Communication, Communication Monograph, and International Journal of Communication.
SCHOLARLY WORKS • Books - Liu, Y. (2024). International students in Beijing: Intercultural experiences and adaptation in transnational educational mobility. Beijing, China: Social Sciences Academic Press. - Liu, Y. (2021). Permanent outsiders in China: American migrants’ Otherness in the Chinese gaze. New York, NY: Peter Lang. - Kramer, E., & Liu, Y. (2015). Intercultural communication in the context of globalization. Beijing, China: Tsinghua University Press. • Journal Articles - Jiang, Xi., Liu, Y., & Huang, J. (under review). Navigating translocational positionalities through identity performances: A case of white wives in Chinese-foreign marriages on Douyin. Ethnicities. (SSCI, Q1) - Liu, Y., Liao, D., & English, A. (R & R). Social support from local Chinese and sojourners and psychological distress: The mediating role of sense of belonging among international students in China. Studies in Higher Education. (SSCI, Q1) - Zhou. B. & Liu, Y. (2025). Being Chinese or becoming Chinese? Discursive imaginations of Eileen Gu across media platforms. Media, Culture & Society. doi: 10.1177/01634437251341708 (SSCI, Q1) - Liao, D., Pulido, M. D., & Liu, Y. (2024). Coping, surviving, or thriving: A scoping review examining social support for migrant care workers through four theoretical lenses. Social Science & Medicine, 360, 117335. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117335. (SSCI, Q1) - Liu, Y. & Luo, M. (2024). In search of an imagined China: Western students’ geographical imaginations of studying in the Global South. Geographical Research, 62(4), 601-615. doi: 10.1111/1745-5871.12667. (SSCI, Q1) - Liu, Y. (2022). Narrating Chinese Occidentalism: American migrants’ experiences of everyday Otherness in China. Sage Open, 12(3), 1-14. doi: 10.1177/21582440221116332. (SSCI, Q2). - Liu, Y. (2022). Paradigmatic compatibility matters: A critical review of qualitative-quantitative debate in mixed methods research. Sage Open, 12(1), 1-14. doi:10.1177/21582440221079922. (SSCI, Q2) - Liu, Y., & Croucher, S. (2022). Becoming privileged yet marginalized Other: American migrants’ narratives of stereotyping-triggered displacement in China. Asian Journal of Social Science, 50(1), 7-15. doi:10.1016/j.ajss.2021.06.006. (SSCI, Q3) - Liu, Y., & Kramer, E. (2021). Cultural value discrepancies, strategic positioning and integrated identity: American migrants’ experiences of being the Other in mainland China. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 14(1), 76-93. doi:10.1080/17513057.2019.1679226. - Liu, Y., & Dervin, F. (2020). Racial marker, transnational capital, and the Occidental Other: White Americans’ experiences of whiteness on the Chinese mainland. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 48(5), 1033-1050. doi:10.1080/1369183X.2020.1763785. (SSCI, Q1) - Liu, Y., & Self, C. C. (2020). Laowai as a discourse of Othering: Unnoticed stereotyping of American expatriates in Mainland China. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 27(4), 462-480. doi:10.1080/1070289X.2019.1589158. (SSCI, Q1) - Liu, Y., & Kramer, E. (2019). Conceptualizing the Other in intercultural encounters: Review, formulation and typology of the Other-identity. Howard Journal of Communications, 30(5), 446-463. doi:10.1080/10646175.2018.1532850.
AWARDS & HONOURS • Academic Youth Award, Beijing Foreign Studies University, 2019 • Top Papers Award by Association for Chinese Communication Studies, NCA 105th Annual Convention, 2019 • Top Papers Award by Association for Chinese Communication Studies, NCA 104th Annual Convention, 2018
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