Xin Liu

Xin Liu is a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley describes his research as focused on contemporary life in East Asia and China, especially the effects of transnational capital, capitalism, and modernization on social life.

He is the author of In One's Own Shadow: An Ethnographic Account of the Condition of Post-reform Rural China and The Otherness of Self. These books helped establish him as a writer interested in how large historical and economic shifts are lived in everyday experience.

Alongside his books, he has also been presented as an editor and scholar of China and anthropological theory. His work is especially appealing to listeners interested in thoughtful nonfiction that brings together fieldwork, social theory, and the realities of rapid change.