Liu Xiaoli

Liu Xiaoli, born in 1968 in Tieling, Liaoning, holds a doctorate in literature and is a professor and doctoral supervisor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at East China Normal University. Her research focuses on modern and contemporary Chinese literature, literary theory, aesthetics, and Chinese colonial literature, and she is known especially for her work on literature of the Manchukuo period and East Asian colonial literature. Her books include The Spiritual World in Abnormal Time and Space, Manchukuo Literature and Literary Magazines, and A Weekend Read on Aesthetics, and she served as chief editor of the Collected and Researched Materials on Literature of the Manchukuo Period. In the collection, five works are listed under her name, spanning Manchukuo-era literary research, writing on lakes, applied psychology and personal growth, and university computer fundamentals, reflecting a profile that combines academic scholarship with writing for general readers.