# Zifeng Liu

**Source**: https://africana.cornell.edu/zifeng-liu
**Parent**: https://africana.cornell.edu/africana-studies-research-center-phd-student-publications

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### Overview

Zifeng Liu is an intellectual historian of the 20th-century Africana world with specializations in Black internationalism, anticolonial thought, and Afro-Asian solidarity. He holds a Ph.D. in Africana Studies from Cornell University and an M.A. in American Studies from Brown University. His current book project, *Redrawing the Balance of Power: Black Left Feminists, China, and the Making of an Afro-Asian Political Imaginary, 1949-1976*, explores how Black leftist women’s understandings of race, class, gender, sexuality, and empire evolved as they sought Afro-Chinese solidarity within often difficult Cold War geopolitical contexts. His ongoing research has been featured by *The Economist* and *CGTN News*, and his essays and reviews in English and Chinese on Black radicalism and African American political culture have been published in the *Journal of Intersectionality*, *Journal of African American History*, *Journal of Beihang University*, *The Paper, Initium Media, SINA News*, and *Sixth Tone*. He is currently a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Africana Research Center at Pennsylvania State University.