Ruoxi Liu is a sociologist focusing on individual agency, grassroots creativity, and everyday activism under restricted social and political contexts. She is now a departmental lecturer at the School of Global and Area Studies, the University of Oxford. Her research investigates self-employed/independent workers, cultural workers/artists, craft workers, and their communities in contemporary China. Inspired by people in her field, their alternative practices, and different forms of activism, she has been practising bridging academia and activism.
On 30 March 2024, ‘Questioning Silence: A Trio Exhibition on Family Histories’ (追问沉默) by Chinese artists Lan Yi, Da Xi, and Huang Xiaoxing opened at Making Space (新造空间), an independent research-based contemporary art space on the southern banks of the Pearl River in Guangzhou, dedicated to socially engaged art through transdisciplinary collaboration. This was the […]
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