Yan Liu (刘衍)

Field: Modern Chinese literature and culture
Advisor: Lydia Liu
Email: yan.l@columbia.edu

Yan Liu (刘衍) is a Ph.D. student in modern Chinese literature and culture. His research probes the entanglements between art, literature, and politics, with a focus on the Chinese Revolution in the twentieth century, the cultural Cold War in the Sinophone world, and the political history of China’s avant-garde movements.