Dr Yi Li BSc (Fudan), MSc(National University of Singapore), MA(London), PhD(London), FHEA

Dr Yi Li

Lecturer

Department of History & Welsh History

Contact Details

Profile

Yi Li is a Lecturer in East and South East Asian History at Aberystwyth. She received her Ph.D. from SOAS, University of London. Prior to joining Aberystwyth, she worked as Postdoctoral Fellow at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and online learning programme manager at SOAS. Her research interests include colonial and postcolonial history of the Burmese Chinese, Chinese migration and diaspora, and modern East and Southeast Asian history. Her recent research involves Welsh presence in East and SoutheastAsia, working closely with fellow modern Asian historians in Wales.  She is also active, through an interdisciplinary and international working group, in bringing educational opportunities to displaced Myanmar youth after the 2021 coup. She was born and raised in Shanghai, and spent years living, studying and working in Singapore and Britain. Before becoming a historian, Yi was trained as a software engineer.

Teaching

Module Coordinator
Coordinator
Tutor

Office Hours (Student Contact Times)

  • Wednesday 10:30-11:30
  • Thursday 14:30-15:30

Publications

Li, Y, Thrivikraman, J, Than, T & Sarkar, S 2025, Our Stories Matter! A Place-based Educator’s Toolkit. Humanities Across Borders (HAB). <https://humanitiesacrossborders.org/sites/default/files/2025-07/e-book_our-stories-matter-a-pbe-toolkit.pdf>
Li, Y 2025, 'Tin, secret societies, and the slow development of the Chinese mining community in a Siam-Burma border village of Maliwun, 1840s–1890s', International Journal of Asian Studies, pp. 1-16. 10.1017/S1479591425100326
Li, Y 2024, Chinese in Colonial Myanmar. in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History. Oxford University Press. 10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.013.835
Li, Y 2022, A Cantonese Carpenters’ strike in Rangoon, 1922. in C Choi, T Shiroyama & V Viana (eds), Strenuous Decades: Global Challenges and Transformation of Chinese Societies in Modern Asia. vol. 2, Social and Cultural Changes in China, vol. 2, De Gruyter, pp. 121-140. 10.1515/9783110757422-007
Li, Y 2022, The Unsuccessful Development of Southern Burmese Tin Mines in the Nineteenth Century. in D Baillargeon & J Taylor (eds), Spatial Histories of Occupation: Colonialism, Conquest and Foreign Control in Asia. Bloomsbury, London, pp. 99-118. 10.5040/9781350257023.ch-004
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