Petrus Liu is Associate Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature and of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality at Boston University. He is the author of Stateless Subjects: Chinese Martial Arts Literature and Postcolonial History (2011); Queer Marxism in Two Chinas (2015); and The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus (2023).