HaiweiLiu
(lastupdated: 02/25/2022)
151-1119-1893| liuhw2@shanghaitech.edu.cn| No. 393 Middle Huaxia Road, Shanghai, China
CURRENT POSITION
ShanghaiTechUniversity, Shanghai,China
Assistant Professor January 2022– present
Universityof Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Ph.D.,East Asian Languages and Cultures August 2019
Dissertation:“Mandate and Manipulate: Constructing Political Legitimacy duringthe Yuan-Ming Transition 1351—1370”
DissertationCommittee: Professors Bettine Birge, Azade-Ayse Rorlich, JoshuaGoldstein, Sarah Schneewind
QualifyingExamination Fields: Premodern Chinese History and Culture, FrontierHistory and Ethnicity in Modern China, Islam and Empires in InnerAsia
M.A.,East Asian Languages and Cultures May 2014
NanjingUniversity, Nanjing, China
M.A.,Pre-modern Chinese History May 2009
HunanUniversity Yuelu Academy, ChangshaChina Research fellow August 2019 – January 2022
SCHOLARLYPUBLICATIONS
“ApocalypticBelief and Prophecy: Constructing Political Legitimacy during theYuan-Ming Transition,” Journalof the Royal Asiatic Society (forthcoming2022).
“Rulershipand Representations: Reconsidering the Religious Identity of PrinceAnanda,” CentralAsiatic Journal64.1-2(2021):165-181. https://doi.org/10.13173/centasiaj.64.1-2.0165
“EachFollowing Its Own Customs: A Re-examination of Khubilai’s 1280Edict on Muslim Practices,” Journalof the American Oriental Society(under second-round review).
“Imagesof the Mongols, Muslims and Han Chinese in Yuan Prophecies: AnInterpretation of the Case of ‘Falsely Accusing Innocent People ofRebelling’ in the Yuandianzhang,”(in Chinese) in Qinghuayuanshi4 (TsinghuaJournal of Yuan Studies 4),November 2018, pp.42-62.
“TheOrigins of the Fire God Liu Huan in theInvestiture of Gods,”(in Chinese) in Wenshizhishi(ChineseLiterature and History),no.2, 2016, pp.79-83.
“ZhengHe and the Tri-lingual Stone Stele Discovered in Sri Lanka,” (inChinese) in Yuanshiji minzu bianjiang yanjiu jikan(Journalof Yuan History and Ethnicity and Border Studies),2015:02, pp.102-108.
“TheLocalization of a Zoroastrian God in Chinese Popular Belief: Usingas an Example the Novel theInvestiture of Gods,”(in Chinese) in Shijiezongjiao yanjiu (Studiesin World Religions),no. 3, 2012, pp.163-169.
ACADEMIC HONORSAND AWARDS
At USC:
USC Graduate SchoolSummer Grant Summer 2018
Department of EastAsian Languages and Cultures Summer Stipend Summer 2018
ACE-NikaidoFellowship Summer2016
Endowed FellowshipsTravel/Research Award Spring andSummer 2016
Department of EastAsian Languages and Cultures Travel Grant Summer 2015
Theodore& Wen-Hui Chen Endowed Fellowship, 2 years of full support 2015–2017
Department of EastAsian Languages and Cultures Travel Grant Spring 2015
GoldFamily Graduate Fellowship Summer 2014
Departmentof East Asian Languages and Cultures Travel Grant March 2013
Department of EastAsian Languages and Cultures Summer Stipend Summer 2012
Dornsife College ofLetters, Arts, and Sciences Ph.D. Doctoral Fellowship
August2011–August 2019
Dornsife College ofLetters, Arts, and Sciences Bitzer Family Fellowship 2011
Others:
The DigitalHumanities Workshop for East Asian Religions at McMaster University,Hamilton, Canada May 26-27, 2018
The 14thAssociation for Pacific Rim Universities Doctoral Student Conference,Hangzhou, China, Best Paper Award November 23-27, 2015
Selected toparticipate in international graduate student seminar “NewDirections in the Study of The Mongol Empire”, in conjunction witha conference at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in support of theproduction of the CambridgeHistory of the Mongol Empire,Jerusalem, Israel July 1-4, 2014
Nanjing UniversityExcellent Graduate Student Scholarship 2008
Korean FoundationScholarship 2007
TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS
InvitedTalks
“EachFollowing Its Own Customs: A Re-examination of Khubilai’s 1280Edict on Muslim Practices,” online talk at the Thomas AllsenSeminar, June 28, 2021.
“ConfucianElements in a Messianic Rebellion: Rethinking the Origins ofthe Dynastic Name Ming,” at the Society for Ming Studies AnnualMeeting, Denver, Colorado, March 22, 2019.
“Heresyor Legitimacy: The mingwangReconsidered,” at the symposium of “Heresies in PremodernChina,” University of Pennsylvania, March 26, 2018.
ConferencePresentations:
“TheTri-lingual Stone Stele Found in Sri Lanka and Zheng He’s Voyagesto West Oceans,” presented at the symposium “The Political andIdeological Adjustments in Premodern Eurasia, 1400-1700,” FudanUniversity, Shanghai, June 23-24, 2021.
“Heterodoxyor Orthodoxy: Confucian Elements in a Messianic Rebellion,” at theAssociation for Asian Studies (AAS) 2019 Annual Conference, Denver,Colorado, March 21-24, 2019.
“Mandateand Manipulate: Prophecies as a Way of Constructing PoliticalLegitimacy in the Yuan-Ming Transition,” at the conference“Scaling the Ming: Ming Studies 2018,” University of BritishColumbia, Vancouver, Canada, May 18-19, 2018.
“Ethnographyvs. Stereotype: General Tso and Chinese Muslims’ ChangingHistorical Memories,” presented at the Ethnographies of Islam inChina International Conference, SOAS, University of London, March27-29, 2017.
“Prophecyand Legitimacy: Mongol Influence on the Chinese Notion of HeavenlyMandate,” presented at the Association for Asian Studies in AsiaConference, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, June 24-27, 2016.
“FromFight to Fire: The Localization of a Zoroastrian God in Taoism,”presented at the Association for Asian Studies in Asia Conference,Academia Sinica, Taiwan, June 22-24, 2015.
“TheMing Policies towards Southeast Asian States and the Dispute overZhenghe’s Religious beliefs,” (in Chinese) presented at theConference on Stone Steles and Nautical History, Nanjing University,China, August 5-7, 2014.
“Multi-culturalismand the Legitimation of Mongol Rule in Yuan China,” (in Chinese)presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of YuanHistory, Hohhot, China, July 26-28, 2014.
“SeekingLegitimation across Cultures: The Case of Prince Ananda and theChallenge of Mongol Rule over Muslim Subjects,” in the Conferenceon Mobility and Transformations: Economic and Cultural Exchange inMongol Eurasia, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, June29-July 1, 2014.
“Rulershipand Legitimacy: A Reconsideration of the Relationship between theMongols and Muslims in Yuan China.” Conference on Middle PeriodChina, 800-1400, Harvard University, June 5-7, 2014.
“TheProphecies of the Yuan dynasty and the Trend of Thoughts behindThem,” (in Chinese) presented at the Conference on Politics andCultures in the Late Yuan Dynasty (coauthored with Dandan Zhang),Fuyang, China, October 8-11, 2011.
“TheInterpretation of Chos Jre Irgyal Bu in the Stele of the BaoqingTemple,”(inChinese) presented at the Conference of Cities, Economy and Societyin the South of the Gobi during the Yuan Dynasty, the YearlySymposium on the Yuan Dynasty and Mongolian Studies, Xilin haote,China, July 22-24, 2010.
“Questionson Prince Ananda’s Religious Beliefs,”(in Chinese) presented at the Conference of Yuan Shangdu and YuanSocieties, Zhenglan qi, China, August 1-2, 2009.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
TeachingAssistant
“Global ChineseCinema and Cultural Studies,” East Asian Languages and Cultures,Main Instructor: Brian Bernards, Fall 2018, University of SouthernCalifornia
“The Worlds of theSilk Road,” History, Main Instructor: Azade-Ayse Rorlich, Spring2015, 2014, 2013, university of Southern California
“ChineseCivilization,” East Asian Languages and Cultures, Main Instructor:Bettine Birge, Fall 2014, 2012, university of Southern California
“East AsianEthical Thought,” East Asian Languages and Cultures, MainInstructor: George Hayden, Fall 2013, university of SouthernCalifornia
ACADEMICAFFILIATIONS
Hebrew Universityof Jerusalem,Freiburg Asian Studies Center, Jerusalem Israel
Research Associate October 2016-October 2017
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Chinese(native); English (fluent); Japanese (proficient); Persian (readingknowledge); Mongolian (reading knowledge)
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONALSOCIETIES
Associationfor Asian Studies (AAS)
Societyfor Song, Yuan and Conquest Dynasties Studies
Societyfor Ming Studies
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
Member,Ming Studies in Southern California 2018–present
Member,Graduates Studying East Asia (GSEA), USC 2012–2019
USCShoah Foundation: Transcriber of Interviews with survivors of theNanjing Massacre
Summer2013