Yuki Liu

Dr Yuki Liu is an early career researcher in Chinese fashion history with expertise in clothing culture of the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries. She completed her PhD at the Beijing Institution of Fashion Technology in June 2020, with a thesis on students’ clothing in China, 1895-1927. She now holds a postdoctoral position at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.  With a background in professional modelling, Yuki has an intimate knowledge of contemporary as well as historical fashion trends. In 2019-220, she was a visiting scholar at the University of Melbourne, where she joined Antonia Finnane in a collaborative research project on hosiery in modern China  (ongoing). 

Relevant Publications

Liu Yuqi, ‘Women’s clothing in Shanghai and new female images, 1927-1937’, Art & Design Research, 2017(2): 36-43.

Liu Yuqi, ‘The Rules of the Clothing System in Modern China: Promulgation and Enforcement,1912 & 1929’, Art & Design Research, 2018(12):106-108.

Liu Yuqi, ‘The Dress Protocols for Students in 1907,’Journal of Silk, 2019(6): 97-104.

Liu Yuqi, ‘Appropriation and Fashion: Western cloth in the late Qing,’ Fashion Guide, 2019(8): 32-36.