Rate My Professor Xiaoyuan Liu

Liu has produced an extensive body of scholarship, including influential monographs such as To the End of Revolution: The Chinese Communist Party and Tibet, 1949-1959 (Columbia University Press, 2020), Recast All Under Heaven: Revolution, War, Diplomacy and Frontier China in the 20th Century (Continuum, 2010), Reins of Liberation: An Entangled History of Mongolian Independence, Chinese Territoriality, and Great Power Hegemony, 1911–1950 (Stanford University Press and Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2006), Frontier Passages: Ethnopolitics and the Rise of Chinese Communism, 1921–1945 (Stanford University Press and Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2004), and A Partnership for Disorder: China, the United States, and Their Policies for the Postwar Disposition of the Japanese Empire, 1941–1945 (Cambridge University Press, 1996). He has also co-edited works like Exploring Nationalisms of China: Themes and Conflicts (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002) and published numerous articles in leading journals including Ershiyi Shiji, The China Review, and The Chinese Historical Review. Liu's accolades include the Outstanding Career Achievement in Research Award from Iowa State University’s School of Liberal Arts and Sciences (2011), Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellowship (2002-2003), Social Science Research Council–MacArthur Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (1997–1999), and Smith Richardson Foundation Grants (1997–1998).