Shuxiong Liu (Peking University)

submitted: 5/30/94 (by mail)

Mr. Shuxiong Liu
Associate Professor
Department of Oriental Studies
Peking University
100871 Beijing, CHINA

Date and Place of Birth: Aug.1, 1951, Hunan Province, P.R.C.

Professional Experience:
After majoring in Urdu at Peking University from 1970 to 1974, he went to 
Pakistan as an interpreter and stayed there for two years. He had an 
opportunity of studying in the English Department of Peking University in 
the following two years. He became a teacher of Urdu at Peking University 
in 1979. From 1980 to 1982, he took advanced Urdu course in the National 
Institute of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan. Since then, he has 
been teaching various Urdu courses at Peking University. He was appointed 
as the Vice Chairman of the Department of Oriental Studies in charge of 
teaching and studying activities in 1987. He has been to Iran and the 
Philippines separately in 1991 and 1993 on an academic visit to Tehran 
University and Ateneo de Manila University. He is a member of Indian 
Literature Society of China.

Publications:

1. A Primary Analysis on the Poetry of Iqbal's Earlier Period
2. Comparative Research on the Short Stories by the Indian Writer 
      Premchand and the Chinese Writer Lu Xun
3. The Indian Progressive Literary Movement and Its Significance
4. Ghalib and Urdu Literature
5. Iqbal and Urdu Literature
6. Iqbal and His Contributions to Both Urdu and Persian Poetry
      in South Asia
7. The Negative Influence of Persian Poetry on Ancient Urdu Poetry
8. The Epitome of A Realistic Society -- Comment on the Urdu Novel
      "Khuda ki Basdi"
9. The Philippines that Embodied Both Oriental and Occidental Cultures
10. Translation of Urdu Tale "Bagh-o-Bahar" into Chinese (co-translator)
11. Translation of Urdu Novel "Khuda ki Basdi" into Chinese
      (co-translator)
12. Translation of Urdu Novelette "Dil ki Wadiyan So Gayin" into
      Chinese