Liu Xian-ge was born in January 1977 in Donggang, Liaoning Province. He has a PhD degree in History from Peking University and a postdoctoral degree in Journalism and Communication from Tsinghua University. He was a visiting scholar for the "Multi-friends" program in the Department of Media and Communication at City University of Hong Kong and is currently a professor at the School of Journalism and Communication at Zhengzhou University. His research interests lie on the edge of political science, history and journalism and communication studies, with a focus on modern Chinese politics and the history of journalism and communication. He won the first prize for papers in the “China and the World in Historical Process: The First China History Postdoctoral Forum 2012” and served as a member of the Teaching Guidance Committee for drama and film majors in ordinary institutions of higher education in Liaoning Province from 2014 to 2017. He has participated in the National Social Science Foundation’s key project "The History of China's Journalism for Sixty Years," and has led two provincial social science planning fund projects. He acted as an academic consultant for the biographical documentary film "Master of the Press Zhang Jiluan," co-produced by Phoenix Satellite Television and the Yulin Chamber of Commerce, which received positive social feedback when it was first broadcast in March to April 2012.

Education

1996-2000, Renmin University of China, Department of Communist Party History, Political Science, undergraduate degree, Bachelor of Philosophy;

2000-2003, Renmin University of China, School of International Relations, Department of Political Science, Postgraduate, LL;

2003-2009, Peking University, Department of History, Modern Chinese History, Postgraduate, PhD degree in History.

Work Experience

200909-201112 Tsinghua University, School of Journalism and Communication, Postdoctoral;

201203-201608 Shenyang University, School of Culture and Media / School of Music and Media, Professor;

201609-Currently, Zhengzhou University, School of Journalism and Communication, Professor.

Major academic achievements

1. "Social history of journalism: a possibility for the study of Chinese journalism history after 1949", International Journalism, No. 3, 2010 (first author as a postdoctoral co-author);

2, "Change and Unchanging: A little reflection on the history of journalism in the Republic", Journal of Shanxi University, Philosophy and Social Sciences: Edition, No. 1, 2011;

3, "Why is journalism work the work of the masses? --reading a speech by Xi Zhongxun on journalism and the mass line", Journalist, No. 11, 2013;

4, "Why did Fan Changjiang leave Ta Kung Pao? Introducing an anonymous article ", Journalist, No. 10, 2014;

5. "Behind the scenes of the Bohai II shipwreck accident report", Journalist, No. 8, 2012;

6. "Xiao Qian's Reflection and Clarification on the Issue of Covering the Only Chinese Journalist in the European Battlefield", Modern Communication, No. 4, 2014

7, "Newspaper Man and Political Controversy: The Examination of Zhang Jiluan's First Jail Term", Journal of Ji University, No. 6, 2014;

8. "A Preliminary Study on the Phenomenon of Internal Staff in the Perspective of Political Communication", Journalist, No. 2, 2017;

9. "The Formation of the Concept of "Labor" in Modern China 1890s-1924", Modern Communication, No. 3, 2017;

10. "Seeing the spirit in the smallest detail: what is a cultured journalist from Fan Jingyi's revised letter", Journalism and Writing, No. 1, 2011;

11, "Two versions of the reporter's commentary on the Bohai II accident - and the identification of contemporary Chinese journalistic history", Young Journalist, December 2012, no. 2;

12, "Newspaper man Zhang Jiluan's 1919: centering on the North-South peace negotiations", Peking University Press and Communication Review, 5th series, Peking University Press, 2010;

13,, "Journalism history, it can still be written like this! Review of Li Bin's "Social History of Chinese Journalism", Journal of Global Media, Sixth Series, Tsinghua University Press, 2011.