Angelica Liu
I am a second year PhD student at the Centre for Women's Studies at the University of York. I joined in the centre in January 2007 after completing my BA (Hons) in Society, Culture and Media at the University of East Anglia. My PhD thesis is titled 'The Reception of Contemporary Chinese Women Glam-writers and Their Work in China', and is supervised by Professor Stevi Jackson and Professor Gabriele Griffin.
My research investigates how contemporary Chinese women writers and their work are received in mainland China. I am mainly focusing on the reception from the three parts: the reception by the literary critics, by the readers, and in the authors' blog chatting. I am particularly interested in examining the reception in the authors' blog chatting as the establishment of literary celebrities' blogs emerged as a recent cultural phenomenon has attracted much attention from scholars, critics, as well as the commercial industry. The female authors are at the same time individualized and de-individualized through adopting identical blog models under the same domain. My methodologies involve an empirical research of interviewing a group of Chinese readers, asking them about their views and opinions of the women writers and their novels in contemporary China.