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Professor Emerita, Director of the International Center for Cultural Studies, NYCU Personal Page<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Roboto Condensed||||||||” text_font_size=”1em” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Joyce C.H. Liu, Professor Emerita, currently serves as the Director of the International Center for Cultural Studies at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. Her research focuses on geopolitics, biopolitics, border politics, internal coloniality, unequal citizens, and epistemic\/artistic decolonization. She coordinates interdisciplinary and trans-national joint research projects: Conflict, Justice, and Decolonization: Critical Studies of Inter-Asian Societies (MOE SPROUT 1.0, 2018-2022), Conflict, Justice, and Decolonization: Asia in Transition in the 21st Century (MOE SPROUT 2.0, 2023-2027), “Migration, Logistics, and Unequal Citizens in the Global Context” (2019-2022), CHCI-Mellon Foundation, and \u201cTransit Asia Research Network\u201d (TARN) (2023-2027). Dr. Liu received the 2020 MOST Outstanding Research Award, reflecting her lifetime achievements.<\/p>\n Dr. Liu is the author of seven books: \u5fc3\u614b\u53f2\u62d3\u64b2\u5b78\uff1a\u5982\u4f55\u9762\u5c0d\u7576\u4ee3\uff1f\u5982\u4f55\u7406\u89e3\u6b77\u53f2\uff1f<\/a>(<\/span>The Topology of the History of Mentalities: How to Face the Contemporary? How to Comprehend the History?, <\/em>2023), \u4e00\u5206\u70ba\u4e8c\uff1a\u73fe\u4ee3\u4e2d\u570b\u653f\u6cbb\u601d\u60f3\u7684\u54f2\u5b78\u8003\u6398\u5b78<\/a> (<\/span>One Divides into Two: Philosophical Archaeology of Modern Chinese Political Thought, <\/em>2020), \u5fc3\u4e4b\u62d3\u6a38\uff1a1895\u4e8b\u4ef6\u5f8c\u7684\u502b\u7406\u91cd\u69cb<\/a> (The Topology of Psyche: The Post-1895 Reconfiguration of Ethics<\/em> (2011), \u5fc3\u7684\u8b8a\u7570\uff1a\u73fe\u4ee3\u6027\u7684\u7cbe\u795e\u5f62\u5f0f<\/a> (The Perverted Heart: The Psychic Forms of Modernity, <\/em>2004), \u5b64\u5152\u5973\u795e\u8ca0\u9762\u66f8\u5beb\uff0d\u6587\u5316\u7b26\u865f\u7684\u5fb5\u72c0\u5f0f\u95b1\u8b80<\/a> (Orphan, Goddess, and the Writing of the Negative: The Performance of Our Symptoms, <\/em>2000), and more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, in Chinese and English. She has also edited 19 volumes of academic books, including East-Asian Marxisms and their Trajectories<\/a><\/em> (Routledge 2017), European- East Asian Borders in Translation<\/em><\/a> (Routledge 2014), Biopolitics, Ethics and Subjectivation<\/em><\/a> (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2011).<\/p>\n Over the years, Dr. Liu has conducted 34 research projects, organized 28 domestic and international conferences, and supervised 28 Ph.D. Dissertations, 58 MA theses. Her students are from Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, India, Italy, Poland, Belgium, Palestine, Jordan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, South Africa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, and others.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|600|||||||” header_2_font=”|800|||||||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|600|||||||” header_2_font=”||||||||” header_2_font_size=”1.2em” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”||||||||” text_font_size=”1em” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n \u201cTaiwanese Sold by Taiwanese\u2014Escape from the Scam Industrial Park. A confession of a Human Trafficking Victim\u201d (August 10, 2022), a recent report by the independent Taiwanese media, The Reporter, exposed the stories of Taiwanese people trapped by human- smuggling groups in Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone, Cambodia. \u00a0Sihanoukville is a port city famous for its role as a gateway to international sea trade, casinos, and organized crimes. Today it is one of the major cities in China\u2019s One Belt One Road Initiative, and more than 80,000 Chinese live in this city. Chinese entrepreneurs run the organized scam industries with Cambodian elites, assisted by Taiwanese gangs to recruit people. \u00a0According to Al Jazeera\u2019s documentary on July 15, 2022, \u201cForced to Scam: Cambodia\u2019s Cyber Slaves,\u201d the smuggled victims have to work 15 hours a day on a cryptocurrency romance scam or a cryptocurrency investment scam. The victims are from China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thai, Vietnam, and Burma. The criminal enterprises of the Global Scam operations involve massive corruption of high-level officials, both the Cambodian elites and the Chinese entrepreneurs. The sites of the cyber scam enterprises scatter around various places, from the port cities to Phnom Penh and the northern borders of Myanmar, Vietnam, and China.<\/p>\n This project intends to trace the genealogy of the sea route of forced migration that links Northeast and Southeast Asia through the Asian Mediterranean Sea. The core research question is about the nature of forced labor’s institutionalized logistics that persist throughout histories. My argument is that the logistics that facilitate the flow of forced migrant labor date back to the feudal tribute system over thousands of years, from the pre-modern era to the 21st century. The institution and technology of the logistics went through a long history of metamorphosis, but the nature of the mediating institution remains unchanged. Pig is the term used for the coolies in the 19th and 20th centuries, through cheating or kidnapping poor people in the rural villages, the labor force that cost nothing, operated by the broker system to ship the indentured laborers to Southeast Asia and other parts of the world. The pig of the 21st century serves different kinds of labor but is still in the same mode of slavery, with torture and unaccounted death. Port cities turn out to be the chokepoints for the supply chain for the commodities, including crude labor force, through the water route. \u00a0The objective of this study is to propose a perspective of critical legal study that challenges the persistence of the legalized institutions that legitimate and rationalize the extraction of labor and ignore the fundamental equality of all human lives.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|600|||||||” header_2_font=”|800|||||||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text ol_position=”outside” _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”||||||||” text_font_size=”1em” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Journal Papers<\/strong><\/p>\n \u5289\u7d00\u8559\u3002\u3008\u4f5b\u6d1b\u4f0a\u5fb7\u3001\u5df4\u79ae\u5df4\u8207\u300c\u6587\u660e\u6027\u300d\u7684\u6096\u8ad6\uff1a\u653f\u6cbb\u62d3\u64b2\u5b78\u7684\u96e3\u984c<\/a>\u3009\u3002\u300a\u6587\u5316\u7814\u7a76\u300b\uff0c38 2024.06[\u6c11113.06]\uff0c\u980111-41\u3002<\/span><\/p>\n Liu, Joyce C.H. “Cyber Slavery, Port Cities and Systemic Cruelty: Logistics of Labor Extraction in the 21st Century<\/a>“.\u00a0Innovation in the Social Sciences<\/em>\u00a01.2 (2023): 211-233.\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1163\/27730611-bja10014<\/a><\/p>\n Liu, Joyce C.H. \u201cRe-Reading Zhang Taiyan against Fran\u00e7ois Julien: Ontology and Political Critique in Chinese Thought.<\/a>\u201d Theory, Culture & Society. Volume 40, Issue 4-5. 1-18. First published online June 5, 2023. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/02632764231169926<\/a>.<\/p>\n Liu, Joyce C.H. \u201cThe Logistics of Neoliberal Slavery: Legal Production of Illegality<\/a>.\u201d Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. Vol. 23, Issue 1 (2022): 110-120. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/14649373.2022.2026598<\/a><\/p>\n Journal (Guest Editor)<\/strong><\/p>\n Joyce C.H. Liu. Guest Editor. Special Issue: The Legal Ambiguity of the State Crime and the Making of Statelessness<\/a>. Innovations in the Social Sciences 2<\/em> (2024).<\/p>\n Joyce C.H. Liu & John Hutnyk. Eds. Identities on the move: migration, logistics and unequal citizens in contemporary global context<\/a>, Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race<\/em>, Nation and Culture. Vol. 28, 2022.<\/p>\n Book Chapters<\/strong><\/p>\n Liu, J. C. H. (2025)<\/span>. \u201c<\/span>Transit Asia and the Geopolitics of Decolonisation: Toward a New Radical Solidarity<\/span>.\u201d Joyce C.H. Liu & Brett Neilson<\/span>. Decolonisation in the 21st Century: Rethinking Coloniality, Resistance and Solidarity.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/i>Eds: Joyce C.H. Liu and Brett Neilson. Routledge 2025. In Process.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Liu, J. C. H. (2025). \u201cAll-Under-Heaven, Networked Underground: The Limits of Tianxia 2.0.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>| Joyce C.H. Liu.\u2019\u00a0<\/span>Decolonisation in the 21st Century: Rethinking Coloniality, Resistance and Solidarity.\u00a0<\/span><\/i>Eds: Joyce C.H. Liu and Brett Neilson. Routledge 2025. In Process.<\/span><\/p>\n Liu, J. C. H. (2025). “A Critical Genealogy of Forced Migratory Labor in the Asian Mediterranean Sea”. In\u00a0<\/span>Entangled Waterscapes in Asia<\/i><\/span>. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. 17-40. ISBN: 978-90-04-71917-0.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1163\/ Liu, Joyce C. H., Yu-Fan Chiu, and Jonathan S. Parhusip. \u201cLogistics of Maritime Capitalism: Flags of Convenience and the Statelessness at Sea.\u201d In Sites of Statelessness: Laws, Cities, Seas<\/em><\/a>, edited by Ay\u015fe \u00c7a\u011flar, Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury, and Ranabir Samaddar, 217\u201334. State University of New York Press, 2024. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2307\/jj.20829470.16.<\/p>\n
Email: joyceliu@nycu.edu.tw<\/a><\/p>\n<\/span><\/span>Research Project<\/span><\/h2>\n
<\/span>A Critical Genealogy of the Logistics of the Forced Migratory Labor in the Asian Mediterranean Sea<\/h2>\n
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