Faculty Associate
shashal[at]yorku.ca
Contract Faculty
Department of Humanities, York University
Research Keywords:
East Asian visual culture and popular culture; animation studies; media studies
Research Region(s):
China, East Asia
Shasha Liu is a historian of modern and contemporary East Asian visual culture and popular culture, with a focus on China. She earned her PhD in East Asian Studies from the University of Toronto in 2024. Her doctoral research studies the visual reproduction and dissemination of Dunhuang art, an ancient Buddhist archeological site along the Silk Road in northwest China, in modern China and East Asia. The SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, Ontario Graduate Scholarship, and Chiang Ching-Kuo Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship supported her dissertation. Her current research focuses on media and animation studies in modern and contemporary China. Her article on the changed perception of animation as a medium in 1980s China is included in Chinese Animation: Multiplicities in Motion (edited by Daisy Yan Du, John Crespi, and Yiman Wang) and will be published by Harvard University Press in 2024. Her works also appear in the Journal of Chinese Cinemas and the Association for Chinese Animation Studies.