Joyce Chi-Hui Liu (Chinese: 劉紀蕙) is a Professor Emerita and Researcher/Director at the International Center for Cultural Studies at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.
Her students come from diverse backgrounds, including Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, India, Italy, Poland, Belgium, Palestine, Jordan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, South Africa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, and beyond.
She has been a critic of East-Asian modernity and internal coloniality, particularly through re-reading the Chinese intellectual history of the twentieth century and the contemporary political-economy in inter-Asian societies.
[3] In recent years, Dr. Liu has coordinated interdisciplinary and trans-national joint research projects, including "Conflict, Justice, and Decolonization: Critical Studies of Inter-Asian Societies" (MOE SPROUT 1.0, 2018-2022) and "Migration, Logistics, and Unequal Citizens in the Global Context" (2019-2022), among others.
In 2002, she founded Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies in National Chiao Tung University (SRCS-NCTU) and became the director and professor of it until 2004.
Additionally, she acts as the Director of the International Center for Cultural Studies at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan (ICCS-NYCU).
Among her publications, the representative works are the three co-edited volumes: East-Asian Marxisms and their Trajectories (Routledge 2017), European-East Asian Borders in Translation (Routledge 2014), Biopolitics, Ethics and Subjectivation (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2011); and the influential trilogy that she authored: The Topology of Psyche: The Post-1895 Reconfiguration of Ethics (2011), The Perverted Heart: The Psychic Forms of Modernity (2004), as well as Orphan, Goddess, and the Writing of the Negative: The Performance of Our Symptoms (2000).