Professional Affiliation

David Dean 21st Century Professor of Asian Studies at Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia

Expert Bio

Xiaoyuan Liu has taught classes in East Asian international history in a number of universities, and he is currently David Dean 21st Century Professor of Asian Studies at Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia.  He was an Asian Policy fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center.  His research interest is in ethnic frontiers of East Asia in an international setting of the 20th century.  His publications include A Partnership in Disorder: China, the United States, and Their Planning for Postwar Disposition of the Japanese Empire (Cambridge University Press, 1996), Frontier Passages: Ethnopolitics and the Rise of Chinese Communism, 1921-1945 (Stanford University Press and the Wilson Center Press, 2004), Reins of Liberation: An Entangled History of Mongolian Independence, Chinese Territoriality, and Great Power Hegemony (Stanford University Press and the Wilson Center Press, 2006), and To the End of Revolution: The Chinese Communist Party and Tibet, 1949-1959 (Columbia University Press, 2020).