Xinru Liu

Xinru Liu
Nationality American
Alma mater University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D.
Occupation Associate Professor of early Indian history and world history at The College of New Jersey

Xinru Liu (born 1951) is an associate professor of early Indian history and world history at The College of New Jersey, and has held since 1993 a full professorship at the Institute of World History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.[1]

Liu had little formal schooling but instead worked as a peasant and then as a factory worker during the Cultural Revolution. She taught herself English and history and gained admittance to the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned a PhD in 1985 for work on Ancient Indian and Chinese History. Her PhD dissertation was published by Oxford University Press as Ancient India and Ancient China: Trade and Religious Exchanges, A.D. 1-600 (1988).[2][3] She has written many books on Indian and Chinese history.

Liu has won a Grant from American Association of University Women, 1984, a Grant from Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1990. Her book, "Ancient India and Ancient China: Trade and Religious Exchanges, A.D. 1-600" won the award for Outstanding Research Works done between 1977 and 1991 from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She is a member of the American Association of Asian Studies, The American Historical Association, and the World History Association.[4]

Her most recent work is Dionysus and drama in the Buddhist art of Gandhara written jointly with Pia Brancaccio and published in the Journal of Global History.[5]

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References

  1. "Xinru Liu". Department of History, The College of New Jersey. Retrieved 2015-11-25.
  2. Book Review of Ancient India and Ancient China: Trade and Religious Exchanges, A.D. 1-600 by Jagdish P. Sharma The American Historical Review, Vol. 96, No. 1 (Feb., 1991), pp. 229-230
  3. Book Review of Ancient India and Ancient China: Trade and Religious Exchanges, A.D. 1-600 in Indian Economic Social History Review 1989; 26; 121 Book Review by Shereen Ratnagar
  4. "Home Page of Xinru Liu". tcnj.edu. Retrieved 2015-04-05.
  5. Dionysus and drama in the Buddhist art of Gandhara Pia Brancaccio and Xinru Liu Journal of Global History, Volume 4, Issue 02, July 2009, pp 219-244
  6. Liu, X. (1997). Silk and Religion: An Exploration of Material Life and the Thought of People, AD 600-1200. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195644524. Retrieved 2015-04-05.
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