Aiqi Liu

• Position: Visiting Assistant Professor of Professional and Clinical Practice
• Department: History and Philosophy
• Office Location: Building 86/112C
• aliu@uwf.edu
• Campus: 850.474.2680
• Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Biography

Dr. Liu specializes in the history of China, Japan, and U.S. foreign relations with research
interests focusing on the history of economy, finance, and money in East Asia during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His research examines the creation of modern money in China by focusing on the largest government bank in Manchuria and the ways it implemented the first large-scale promulgation of state fiat money in China from 1900 to 1932. The research reexamines the mechanism of how this new currency circulated to rural communities and the effect on the relationship between the state, the rural elites, and the masses. It also sheds light on the unexplored competition in finance among China, Japan, Russia, and the United States in Manchuria and the unknown origin of the Second World War in East Asia. Dr. Liu is working on his first monograph, The Money Deluge: The Financial Origins of Militarism in China and Japan, 1895 to 1932.

Multiple research grants and fellowships support Dr. Liu’s research. He spent substantial time conducting archival research in Japan and China. He was a Nippon Foundation Fellow (2016-17) at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies (IUC) at Yokohama and a Japan Foundation Fellow (2019-2020) at the University of Tokyo. He speaks Cantonese, Mandarin Chinese, and Japanese and reads both classical Chinese and Japanese. Before coming to UWF, Dr. Liu taught undergraduate and graduate courses on Asian, World and U.S. history at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Degrees & Institutions

Ph.D., University of Iowa

M.A., University of Iowa

B.A., Sun Yat-sen (Zhongshan) University, Guangzhou, China