Wenxi Liu

Contact

• liuw@muohio.edu
• Office: Room 221 Johnston Hall, Middletown Campus
• 513-727-3255

Title

• Associate Professor of History

Education

• PhD 1991, University of Iowa
• MA, University of Iowa
• BA, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China

Teaching and Research Interests

• Medieval English Constitution and Law
• World History

Recently taught courses

• HST 121-122 Western Civilization
• HST 197-198 World History
• HST 206 Introduction to Historical Inquiry
• HST 296 World History since 1945
• HST 345 Survey of Medieval History
• HST 354 Modern Chinese History

Selected Publications

• Ten entries in Encyclopedia of World History, ABC-CLIO, forthcoming 2009
• “Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus regni Angliae [Glanvill],” “Henry II,” and “De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae [Bracton],” Reader’s Guide to British History, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2003
• "Competing for Justice beyond Law between Croyland and Spalding: 1189-1202,” Anglo-American Law Review, 2000

Work in Progress

Dr. Liu’s current book project is a translation of Anglo-Saxon Law Codes into Chinese. He is also working on two articles, “Hongfan (Grand Laws): A Cosmological Design of Archaic Chinese Constitution” and “A Documentary Analysis of Councilor Wang Anshi’s Education Reform: Reassessing Traditional Chinese Meritocracy.”