Dr. Yun Liu has specialized in Chinese Modern History, China Studies, Global History, International Studies, and Development Studies. His expertise in China’s modern history has focused on its rural-urban transition and industrializing evolutions, from the early 1900s to the present, extended to the topics of China’s local-oversea social-cultural-political impacts with institutional ruptures-continuities, global industrial revolutions, international development aid, global education collaboration, South-South, and North-South collaborations. Interdisciplinary features have dominated these academic sub-domains. From 2007 to 2015, he had worked as a full-time professor at the Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, Hubei, China. He currently works for the Department of History and the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Regina. His study interests mainly address impacts and responses to Globalization, sustainability strategies, historical narratives for states, nations, and civil societies in various development paths intertwined with local life stories.

Enriching Chinese Heritage Stories within the University of Regina Communities

This research proposes collecting more people’s stories from the University of Regina alumni and faculty members possessing Chinese legacies or connections. Extending the inquiries beyond the 1970s and earlier, I will revisit narratives with documentary evidence from communal societies and extended individuals with life stories connected to China. These voices, potentially exposed to various stereotypes and prejudices in identity politics, enrich cultural heritage shared by local communities and refresh collaborative effort for education internationalization. In 2011, the UR celebrated its 30 years partnership with China. Some still recall a few UR faculties played an active role in the Canada-China wheat trade in the late-1950s, later on, many farming collaboration projects. Such inquiries thus also address how to brand UR and attract members of Chinese heritage, locally and internationally.