Dr Hongling Liang

  • Senior Lecturer (Chinese)

telephone: 0141 330 5591
email: Hongling.Liang@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns: She/her/hers

Modern Languages & Cultures, R321B, Bute Gardens, Hetherington Building, Glasgow G12 8RS

Import to contacts

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9277-0704

Research interests

Fields of interest: 

  • Modern Chinese cultural and intellectual history
  • Intellectual History of Chinese-Western exchanges 
  • Coloniality and postcolonialism
  • Politics of knowledge and learning
  • Translation Studies
  • Anthropology of contemporary China

Before being appointed as Lecturer in Chinese at Glasgow in 2014, I was Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the National University of Ireland (Maynooth) (2013-2014), Senior Research Fellow at the City University of Hong Kong (2010-2013), and ATRE (Attaché Temporaire d'Enseignement et de Recherche) at the University of Lyon (Jean Moulin) (2007-2010). I was on maternity leave 2018-2019.

My current research project explores thinking on education undertaken by the Paris Chinese anarchist group from the late Qing to the early Republican era. It examines how the question of education and learning was discussed and transformed in their transnational education experiments in Europe and investigates the importance of education in constructing the social imaginary of modernity in China. I am writing a monograph on this subject (under contract with the Amsterdam University Press).

Publications

List by: Type | Date

Jump to: 2023 | 2022 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2008
Number of items: 11.

2023

Liang, H. (2023) Education as revolution: theorising education and learning in Xin Shiji (1907-1910). Twentieth-Century China, 48(2), pp. 89-109. (doi: 10.1353/tcc.2023.0010)

2022

Liang, H. (2022) Liuxue: un rite de passage vers la modernité. In: Frangville, Vanessa, Lauwaert, Françoise and Villard, Florent (eds.) Mots de Chine: Ruptures, Persistances, Emergences. Presses Universitaires de Rennes. ISBN 9782753586611

2016

Liang, H. (2016) Chinese anthropology and its domestication projects: Dewesternization, Bentuhua and overseas ethnography. Social Anthropology, 24(4), pp. 462-475. (doi: 10.1111/1469-8676.12307)

2015

Lee, V. P., Liang, H. and Mignolo, W. D. (2015) Global coloniality and the Asian century. Cultural Dynamics, 27(2), pp. 185-190. (doi: 10.1177/0921374015585220)

Liang, H. (2015) The ‘Chinese Century’ and dynamics of knowledge in a longue durée. Cultural Dynamics, 27(2), pp. 227-239. (doi: 10.1177/0921374015585229)

2014

Liang, H. (2014) La Colonialité intellectuelle et l'indemnités des Boxers: de la bourse scolaire d'Indemnité des Boxers à l’Institut Franco-Chinois de Lyon. Transtext(e)s Transcultures = Journal of Global Cultural Studies, 9, (doi: 10.4000/transtexts.515)

2013

Liang, H. (2013) Review of: Saving Lives in Wartime China: How Medical Reformers Built Modern Healthcare Systems amid War and Epidemics, 1928-1945. International Political Anthropology, 6(2), pp. 141-144. [Book Review]

2012

Mignolo, W. and Liang, H. (2012) From global colonialism to global coloniality: a roundtable discussion. Localities, 2, pp. 331-336.

Liang, H. (2012) Early Chinese medicine. In: Stanton, Andrea L., Ramsamy, Edmund, Seybolt, Peter J. and Elliott, Carolyn M. (eds.) Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. Sage Publications: London, pp. 146-148. ISBN 9781412981767

Liang, H. (2012) Medicine 1200–1900. In: Stanton, Andrea L., Ramsamy, Edmund, Seybolt, Peter J. and Elliott, Carolyn M. (eds.) Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. Sage Publications, pp. 15-17. ISBN 9781412981767

2008

Liang, H. (2008) Jiayuan renleixue: yige xueke de butong changjing. In: Zhuang, Kongshao (ed.) Ren lei xue jing dian dao du = Understanding Anthropology. Renmin University Press: Beijing, pp. 692-708. ISBN 9787300078786

This list was generated on Sun Apr 20 17:09:37 2025 BST.
Jump to: Articles | Book Sections | Book Reviews
Number of items: 11.

Articles

Liang, H. (2023) Education as revolution: theorising education and learning in Xin Shiji (1907-1910). Twentieth-Century China, 48(2), pp. 89-109. (doi: 10.1353/tcc.2023.0010)

Liang, H. (2016) Chinese anthropology and its domestication projects: Dewesternization, Bentuhua and overseas ethnography. Social Anthropology, 24(4), pp. 462-475. (doi: 10.1111/1469-8676.12307)

Lee, V. P., Liang, H. and Mignolo, W. D. (2015) Global coloniality and the Asian century. Cultural Dynamics, 27(2), pp. 185-190. (doi: 10.1177/0921374015585220)

Liang, H. (2015) The ‘Chinese Century’ and dynamics of knowledge in a longue durée. Cultural Dynamics, 27(2), pp. 227-239. (doi: 10.1177/0921374015585229)

Liang, H. (2014) La Colonialité intellectuelle et l'indemnités des Boxers: de la bourse scolaire d'Indemnité des Boxers à l’Institut Franco-Chinois de Lyon. Transtext(e)s Transcultures = Journal of Global Cultural Studies, 9, (doi: 10.4000/transtexts.515)

Mignolo, W. and Liang, H. (2012) From global colonialism to global coloniality: a roundtable discussion. Localities, 2, pp. 331-336.

Book Sections

Liang, H. (2022) Liuxue: un rite de passage vers la modernité. In: Frangville, Vanessa, Lauwaert, Françoise and Villard, Florent (eds.) Mots de Chine: Ruptures, Persistances, Emergences. Presses Universitaires de Rennes. ISBN 9782753586611

Liang, H. (2012) Early Chinese medicine. In: Stanton, Andrea L., Ramsamy, Edmund, Seybolt, Peter J. and Elliott, Carolyn M. (eds.) Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. Sage Publications: London, pp. 146-148. ISBN 9781412981767

Liang, H. (2012) Medicine 1200–1900. In: Stanton, Andrea L., Ramsamy, Edmund, Seybolt, Peter J. and Elliott, Carolyn M. (eds.) Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. Sage Publications, pp. 15-17. ISBN 9781412981767

Liang, H. (2008) Jiayuan renleixue: yige xueke de butong changjing. In: Zhuang, Kongshao (ed.) Ren lei xue jing dian dao du = Understanding Anthropology. Renmin University Press: Beijing, pp. 692-708. ISBN 9787300078786

Book Reviews

Liang, H. (2013) Review of: Saving Lives in Wartime China: How Medical Reformers Built Modern Healthcare Systems amid War and Epidemics, 1928-1945. International Political Anthropology, 6(2), pp. 141-144. [Book Review]

This list was generated on Sun Apr 20 17:09:37 2025 BST.

Grants

2019 Academic Returner Grand (£9,191)

2018 Carnegie Trust Research Incentive Grant (£3,534)

2015 College of Arts Strategic Research Allocation Fund (£1,360)

 

Supervision

I am currently supervising or cosupervising students at Glasgow working on a range of topics. I welcome applications from prospective doctoral students on topics related to my research interests. Please do contact me to discuss your ideas and projects. 

Current PhD students 

  • Minlin Yu
  • Yunjing Ouyang
  • Menghui Zhang
  • Rui Yang
  • Yan Tang
  • Ouyang, Yunjing
    English Translation of Hongloumeng and the Establishment of English Knowledge on China in the 19th Century

Teaching

Teaching

Postgraduate courses:

  • China and the West: intellectuals and knowledge dynamics (course convenor)
  • Advanced Translation and Language Study (course convenor)
  • Translation of Literature and Culture (course convenor)
  • Transnational Constructions of Gender (team teaching)
  • Literary Translation (team teaching)

Undergraduate course:

  • Chinese Language 1 & 2 (Programme convenor)

Additional information

University Roles

  • Member of the University Senate

  • Member of the Senate Appeals Committee

  • Programme director, Chinese

External Examining

  • External Examiner (Chinese programme) 2018-2022,  School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture, University of Aberdeen 
  • External Examiner (Chinese programme) 2020-2024, School of Modern Languages,  University of St Andrews

Professional Memberships

  • British Association for Chinese Studies 
  • European Association for Chinese Studies 
  • Scottish Center for China Research 

Further Qualifications

  • Hongling Liang is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and holds the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PgCAP).

Dr Hongling Liang on Twitter