2023-24 Residency Research Fellow
About
Jennifer Liu is associate professor of East Asian history at Central Michigan University. She has published a book, Indoctrinating the Youth: Secondary Education in Wartime China and Postwar Taiwan, 1937-1960, with University of Hawaii Press (2024). Currently, she is writing a new book exploring the construction of the modern woman in Taiwan’s magazines from the 1950s to the present. Professor Liu was a senior scholar of the Fulbright Award in Taiwan in 2021.
During her fellowship at Eisenberg Institute, Professor Liu will write a few chapters of her book on women’s magazines in Taiwan. Her work examines how popular magazines communicated notions of beauty and fashion by mostly targeting urban, middle-class women, contributing to the argument that by the 1990s women’s magazines had developed these new representations of women much farther—and faster—than any other media in Taiwan.
