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Lu Liu
Lu Liu is an Assistant Professor of Chinese at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research explores the intersections of environmental history, animal history, and science and technology studies in modern China. She is completing a book manuscript, Trans-species Revolution: Pests and the Unwanted Nature in Modern China, 1900s–1970s, which examines the critical role of pests (haichong) as material and symbolic agents in shaping political struggles, enlightenment movements, socialist construction, and ecological engineering in Chinese history. Her publications also engage with medical humanities, media studies, space history, and Chinese science fiction.