Liu Shih-diing

Enrolment: September 2000
Completion: August 2003
Director of Studies: Prof. Colin Sparks
Aim of study: Internet-based activisms in greater China

My PhD experience

My PhD study was funded by the ORS scholarship. The scholarship was particularly helpful to support my research. Also, my study also benefit enormously from the supervision of Prof. Colin Sparks, who has always been responsive to my questions, and supportive to my research at different stages. I was also working as a tutor for Prof. Sparks on his undergraduate and postgraduate courses; the experience working with him is particularly important to my academic formation because I have learned quite a lot from his sense of humor and generosity to his students, as well as professional teaching skills such as using Powerpoint for presenting course content.

As far as the support of the research institute is concerned, I remembered that the seminars and conferences organized by the CAMRI facilitated various lively occasions for academic exchanges with scholars from different parts of the world. These events have cultivated a research-oriented atmosphere in the institute. I notice that the CAMRI is now developing a research relationship with China, and has launched a new research center aimed at China. These developments would make the CAMRI a unique place for facilitating exchanges and dialogues between scholars of Britain and China in the field of communication and media studies.

Current position

Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Macao, China

Publications

Journal articles

2006, ‘China’s popular nationalism on the internet: Report on the 2005 anti-Japan network struggle’, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 7(1).

2005, ‘Has colonialism ended yet?’, Dushu, April. (Beijing)

2000, ‘Media, class domination and radical democracy’, Contemporary, No. 155. (Taiwan)

2000, ‘A critique of globalization’, Contemporary, No. 153. (Taiwan)

Book reviews

Forthcoming, ‘Richard Calichman: Takeuchi Yoshimi – Displacing the West’, Journal of Oriental Studies. (Hong Kong University)

2005, ‘Lee Chin-chuan: Beyond Western Hegemony’, Chinese Crosscurrents, 2(1). (Macao)

E-mail: sdliu@umac.mo