I. Books
Liao, Pei-chen. 2020. Post-9/11 Historical Fiction and Alternate History Fiction: Transnational and Multidirectional Memory. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Liao, Pei-chen. 2013. ‘Post’-9/11 South Asian Diasporic Fiction: Uncanny Terror. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
II. Refereed Journal Articles
A. In English
Liao, Pei-chen. 2025.05. “The Janus-Faced New China Story through a Migration Lens: The Chinese Dream as Myth and Secrets of Self-Help in Tash Aw’s Five-Star Billionaire.” Contemporary Literature 66.2. (AHCI) (Accepted for publication)
Liao, Pei-chen. 2025.03. “Vietnam Veterans’ Agent Orange-Related Illness and Disability Narratives: The Pursuit of Solidarity, Justice, and Truth.” Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 51.1: 93-120. (AHCI)
Liao, Pei-chen. 2024.11. “The Right to Development and Self-Help: Faking Entrepreneurship of the Strategic Economic Man in Mohsin Hamid’s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction: 1-10. doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2024.2422934. (AHCI)
Liao, Pei-chen. 2024.06. “Strategic Female Entrepreneurship: Love, Self-Interest, and Gender Norms in Mohsin Hamid’s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia.” Women’s Studies 53.6: 724-39. doi: 10.1080/00497878.2024.2368894. (AHCI)
Liao, Pei-chen. 2019.01. “‘America First’: Fear, Memory Activism, and Everyday Life in Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America.” Sun Yat-sen Journal of Humanities 46: 59-78. (THCI)
Liao, Pei-chen. 2018.10. “Life Writing, Cultural Memory, and Historical Mediation in Julie Otsuka’s When the Emperor was Divine.” Life Writing 15.4: 505-21. (AHCI)
Liao, Pei-chen. 2017.09. “Engaging Politically from the Margin—Critical Cosmopolitanism in the Works of Kamila Shamsie.” EurAmerica 47.3: 263-97. (TSSCI; THCI Core)
Liao, Pei-chen. 2015.03. “Identity Politics of South Asian Enclaves: The (In)adequacy of (In)authenticity and Multiculturalism in Gautam Malkani’s Londonstani.” EurAmerica 45.1: 39-72. (TSSCI; THCI Core)
Liao, Pei-chen. 2012.12. “‘Seeking out the Periphery’ in the Shadows: Monica Ali’s In the Kitchen and Contemporary Writing of Britain.” NTU Studies in Language and Literature 28: 87-115. (THCI Core; MLA)
Liao, Pei-chen. 2008.06 “The ‘Perfect’ Woman in The Tempest: A Comparative Deconstruction of Miranda’s Body.” NTU Studies in Language and Literature 19: 81-116. (THCI Core; MLA)
B. In Chinese
Liao, Pei-chen. 2015.06. “The Ambivalence of ‘International’ Writing: The Global/local Dialectics in Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows.” Review of English and American Literature 26: 79-106。(THCI Core)
Liao, Pei-chen. 2012.12. “From the War on Terror to Atomic Bombing in Japan: Politics, Trauma, and Diasporic Ethics in Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows.” Review of English and American Literature 21: 218-52。(THCI Core)
Liao, Pei-chen. 2008.01. “Body Controls and Taboos: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go.” Out of Bond 1: 58-71.
III. Articles in Books
A. In English
Liao, Pei-chen. 2022.08. “The Crusades and a Marginal History of Islam: Tariq Ali’s Activism and Alternative World in The Book of Saladin.” Geo-Spatiality in Asian and Oceanic Literature and Culture: Worlding Asia in the Anthropocene. Ed. Shiuhhuah Serena Chou, So-young Kim, and Rob Wilson. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 137-55.
Liao, Pei-chen. 2022.05. “Outbreak Narratives of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic: Contagion, Community, and Politics in Myla Goldberg’s Wickett’s Remedy and Thomas Mullen’s The Last Town on Earth.” Pandemics and Epidemics in Cultural Representation. Ed. Sathyaraj Venkatesan, Antara Chatterjee, A. David Lewis, and Brian Callender. Singapore: Springer Nature. 121-33.
Liao, Pei-chen. 2017.03. “Murder in the Name of Honor?: Honor Crimes, Economics, and Ghosts in Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for Lost Lovers.” Confronting Mortality: Disease, Disaster, and the Apocalyptic Imagination. Ed. Carolyn F. Scott. Tainan: NCKU Press. 153-75.
Liao, Pei-chen. 2015.12. “The Return of Diasporic Daughters: Rethinking Identity, Home, and Ethics in Mukherjee’s The Tiger’s Daughter and Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost.” Shifting Boundaries: Global Perspectives on Literature and Culture. Ed. Carolyn F. Scott. Tainan: NCKU Press. 106-31.
Liao, Pei-chen. 2012. “The Cultural Politics of Trauma: DeLillo, Foer, and 9/11’s Falling Bodies.” The Wounded Body in Literature. Ed. Jonathan Klassen, Yauling Hsieh, and Joel Janicki. Taipei: Bookman. 145-63. (ISBN: 978-957-445-6)
Liao, Pei-chen. 2009. “Patchwork Girl Writes Back: The Hybrid Body and Heteroglossia in a Dialogue.” Crossings and Contaminations: Studies in Comparative Literature. Ed. Eduardo F. Coutinho and Pina Coco. Rio de Janeiro: Aeroplano. 372-79. (ISBN: 978-85-7820-015-2)
B. In Chinese
Liao, Pei-chen. 2023. 12. “Researches on the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century British Literature in Taiwan.” Regarding Literary Legacies: Researches on English and American Literature in Taiwan (2001-2022). Ed. Chen-Hsing Tsai. Taipei: Bookman. 185-220. (ISBN: 978-626-7193-52-5)
Liao, Pei-chen. 2023. 01. “The Forest as the Enemy: Vietnam/American War Literature, Ecosickness, and Slow Violence.” Revisiting Literature and Medicine: Collected Essays on Medical Humanities. Ed. Pin-chia Feng. Taipei: Bookman. 71-109.
IV. Conference Papers
Liao, Pei-chen. 2025.05.27-28. “Toxicity as Textuality: Compositional Collages and Documentary Poetics in Mai Der Vang’s Yellow Rain.” Crossings and Junctures: English and American Literary Studies. Kohsiung: National Kaohsiung Normal University.
Liao, Pei-chen. 2024.10.11-12. “Economic Growth, Poverty, and Violence in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger.” Multi-ConTEXT: Interdisciplinary Conference. Cheongju: Chungbuk National University, Korea.
Liao, Pei-chen. 2024.03.07-10. “‘How Much Is Too Much?’: Disabled Vietnam Veterans’ Testimonial Narratives of Agent Orange.” The 55th Annual Northeast Modern Language Association Convention. Boston, USA.
Liao, Pei-chen. 2023.05.20-21. “The Boom of Anglophone Asian Gilded Age Fiction and Self-Help Writing.” The Twenty-First Century: The New Contemporary? Taipei: National Taiwan University.
Liao, Pei-chen. 2023.03.25. “The Chinese Dream and the Hidden Secret of Self-Help Books in Tash Aw’s Five Star Billionaire.” Bunga Rampai: A Symposium on Anglophone Malaysian Literature 2023. Tainan: National Ching Kung University.
Liao, Pei-chen. 2020.12.25. “Women-of-Color Chick Lit in the Asian Gilded Age: Human Capital and the Belabored Self in Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians.” Asian American Studies in the Twenty-First Century. Hsinchu: National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.
Liao, Pei-chen. 2020.10.23. “The Forest as the Enemy: Vietnam/American War Memory, Ecosickness and Slow Violence.” Conference on Memory, Interview, Translation, and Life Narrative. Kaohsiung: Center for the Humanities, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan. (MOST 108-2410-H-006-016-MY2)
Liao, Pei-chen. 2018.10.27. “The Gilded Age Then and Now: Redirections of the Self-Help Formula towards Asia in Mohsin Hamid’s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia.” 26th Annual Conference of the English and American Literature Association. Taitung: National Taitung University, Taiwan.
Liao, Pei-chen. 2018.9.14-15. “Walking a Tightrope: Conflicting Visions of America in Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin.” The 53rd ASAK International Conference: Revisioning America. Seoul: Korea University, Korea.
(MOST 105-2628-H-006-002-MY3)
Liao, Pei-chen. 2017.10.28. “The 9/11 Memorial or a Martyr’s Paradise: Islamphobia and American (Counter-)History in Amy Waldman’s The Submission.” 25th Annual Conference of the English and American Literature Association. Taichung: National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan. (MOST 105-2628-H-006-002-MY3)
Liao, Pei-chen. 2017.9.29-30. “‘In Memory of Toyoko H. Nozaka’: Life Writing, Cultural Memory, and Historical Mediation in Julie Otsuka’s When the Emperor Was Divine.” 2017 International Conference on Life Writing: Self-Representation, Medical Narrative and Cultural Memory. Kaohsiung: College of the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Center for Cross-Cultural Studies, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan. (MOST 105-2628-H-006-002-MY3)
Liao, Pei-chen. 2015.12.18-19. “Marginal History of Islam: Tariq Ali’s Activism and Minor Voices in The Book of Saladin.” Re-visioning Activism: The Fourth International Conference on Asian British and Asian American Literatures. Taipei: Academia Sinica, Taiwan. (MOST 102-2410-H-006-090-MY3)
Liao, Pei-chen. 2015.6.12. “Both ‘Betrayed and Betrayer’: Kamila Shamsie and Transnational Activism.” The First International Conference on Interdisciplinary Dialogue: Creative Misreading and Evolving Paradigm. Tainan: National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. (MOST 102-2410-H-006-090-MY3) (MOST 103-2911-I-006-502)
Liao, Pei-chen. 2014.3.20-23. “The Spinning Globe, the Mapping of Karachi, and Kamila Shamsie’s International Writing.” The American Comparative Literature Association 2014 Annual Meeting: “Capitals.” New York: New York University, USA.
Liao, Pei-chen. 2013.4.3-7. “South Asian Trauma and Return-Home Narrative: Mukherjee’s The Tiger’s Daughter and Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost.” The American Comparative Literature Association 2013 Annual Meeting: “Global Positioning System.” Toronto: Toronto University, Canada.
Liao, Pei-chen. 2012.11.2-3. “London, the Ghetto Fiction, and the South Asian Ethnic Enclave: Gautam Malkani’s Londosntani.” 2012 International Conference: “Landscape, Seascape, and the Spatial Imagination.” Kaohsiung: The Center for the Humanities, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan.
Liao, Pei-chen. 2012.6.1-3. “Corporal Politics of Shadow Globalization: The Invisible Other and Dark London in Monica Ali’s ‘In the Kitchen.’” The Second Asian Conference on Cultural Studies. Osaka: The Romada Osaka, Japan. (NSC 100-2410-H-006-081-)
Liao, Pei-chen. 2011.11.23. “From the War on Terror to the Atomic Bombings in Japan: The Multiple Trauma Narrative in Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows.” The 19th Annual English and American Literature Association Conference. Hualien: National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan.
Liao, Pei-chen. 2010.11.20. “The Cultural Politics of Trauma: DeLillo, Foer, and 9/11’s Falling Bodies.” International Conference on Comparative Literature: The Wounded Body in Literature.” Taipei: Soochow University, Taiwan.
Liao, Pei-chen. 2009.10.31-11.1. “Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist as a Post-9/11 Return-Home Novel.” Paper presented at “Mapping the World: Migration and Border-crossing.” Kaohsiung: Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan.
Liao, Pei-chen. 2009.5.9-10. “The Virus Metaphor and (Auto)-Immunity in the Age of Globalization: Computer Viruses, Terrorism, and Immigration in Hari Kunzru’s Transmission.” The Eighth Annual Wenshan International Conference on “Violence and Literature.” Taipei: National Chengchi University, Taiwan.
Liao, Pei-chen. 2009.3.26-29. “The Question of Home-land Security: Mapping Homes and (Un)Domestic Violence in Brick Lane.” The American Comparative Literature Association 2009 Annual Meeting. Boston: Harvard University, USA.
Liao, Pei-chen. 2008.9.27. “The Uncanny Violence of the Strangers to Ourselves: Post-9/11 Terror in Shalimar the Clown.” Art and Power. Leeds: Leeds University, UK.
Liao, Pei-chen. 2008.7.2-4. “A Web of One’s Own.” Literary London 2008. London: Brunel University, UK.
Liao, Pei-chen. 2008.4.24-27. “Bear/Bare Witness: Global Representation, Imagination, and Truth of Sri Lanka’s Civil War.” The American Comparative Literature Association 2008 Annual Meeting. Long Beach: The Westin Hotel, USA.
Liao, Pei-chen. 2007.7.29-8.4. “Patchwork Girl Writes Back: The Hybrid Body and Heteroglossia in a Dialogue.” The XVIIIth Congress of International Comparative Literature Association. Rio de Janerio: Federal University of Rio de Janerio, Brazil.
Liao, Pei-chen. 2007.6.23. “Forbidden/Tabooed Bodies in Never Let Me Go.” The Second International Conference by Center for Cross-Cultural Studies: Taboos and Manners. Taipei: National Chengchi University, Taiwan.
V. Translations
Liao, Pei-chen, Shih-lung Lo, and Yan-hui Li, trans. 2004. “The Pornographic Imposture: Videospectres in the West.” Régis Michel. Changing Bodies. Ed. Shai-Shu Tzeng. Taipei: SMC Publishing Inc. 265-91.
Liao, Pei-chen, trans. 2003. The Sorrows of Young Werth. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Taipei: Farseeing Publishing Group.
VI. Others
Liao, Pei-chen. 2013. “Rethinking American/Comparative Literature After 9/11.” CLAROC Newsletter 4: 2-4.