Dr Yi Li BSc (Fudan), MSc(National University of Singapore), MA(London), PhD(London), FHEA
Lecturer
Department of History & Welsh History
Contact Details
- Email: yil10@aber.ac.uk
- ORCID: 0000-0001-6695-1712
- Office: 3.09, International Politics Building
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 622211
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=QEkalTYAAAAJ
- Research Portal Profile
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 in 2012. 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. 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
- HY28520 - Between Revolution and Reform: China since 1800
- HY38520 - Between Revolution and Reform: China since 1800
Tutor
- HY11820 - The Modern World, 1789 to the present
- HA12120 - Cyflwyno Hanes
- HC11120 - Concwest, Uno a Hunaniaeth yng Nghymru 1200-1800
- HYM2020 - England in Context in the Long Thirteenth Century
- HYM2220 - Texts that made the Middle Ages: advanced Latin reading for postgraduate students
- HYM2820 - Gerald of Wales
- HA11420 - Ewrop a'r Byd, 1000-2000
- HY10420 - 'Hands on' History: Sources and their Historians
- HY12120 - Introduction to History
- HY30340 - Dissertation
- HYM0520 - Key Themes in Modern History
- HYM2120 - Latin for Postgraduate Study
- HQ35020 - The English Reformation, 1520-58: Revolution and Counter Revolution
- HY11420 - Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Europe, 1000-1800
- HYM4820 - Research Concepts and Skills
- HA30340 - Traethawd Estynedig
- HP37420 - Bywyd a Gwaith ym Meysydd Glo Prydain, 1842-1914 (Rhan 1)
- HQ35620 - The English Reformation, 1558-1648: Consolidation and Conflict
- HY20120 - Making History
- HYM5120 - Concepts and Sources in Heritage Studies
- HYM0120 - Research Methods and Professional Skills in History
- HA20120 - Llunio Hanes
- HP37520 - Bywyd a Gwaith ym Meysydd Glo Prydain, 1914-1948 (Rhan 2)
- HY25020 - Recounting Racism: Oral History and Modern American Race Relations.
- HYM1160 - Dissertation
- HC11820 - Cymdeithas, Pobl a Gwleidyddiaeth: Cymru, 1800-1999
- HY12420 - Europe and the World, 1000-2000
- HY24620 - Victorian Visions: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions
- HYM1220 - Sources for Postgraduate Research in the Modern Humanities and Social Sciences
- HYM6220 - Science, Place and Victorian Culture
- HA10420 - Cydio mewn Hanes: Ffynonellau a'u Haneswyr
- HAM0160 - Traethawd Hir
- HCM0160 - Traethawd Hir: Hanes Cymru
- HYM3820 - The British Atlantic World in the 18th Century
- HYM6320 - Representations of the Holocaust 1945-2020
- HYM9920 - Working with History
- HQ35520 - The Irish in Britain, c. 1850-1922 (Part 2): Community and Conflict
- HQ39720 - The Invisible Empires: The Second Ku Klux Klan and American Society, 1915-1944
- HY22020 - The British Isles in the Long Eighteenth Century
- HY26720 - War, Politics and People: England in Context in the Fourteenth Century
- HQ39620 - The Invisible Empires: The First Ku Klux Klan and American Society, 1865-1915
- HQ35420 - The Irish in Britain, c.1815-70 (Part 1): Migration and Settlement
- HY24420 - Seals in Their Context in Medieval England and Wales
- HY30120 - The British Isles in the Long Eighteenth Century
- HY36720 - War, Politics and People: England in Context in the Fourteenth Century
- HY23420 - History as myth-Making: the 'Myth of the Blitz'
- HY29220 - From Poor Law to Welfare State: Poverty and Welfare in Modern Britain, 1815-1948
- HC33520 - Cymru a'r Tuduriaid
- HY28520 - Between Revolution and Reform: China since 1800
- HY29420 - The Nazi Dictatorship: Regime and Society in Germany 1933-1945
- HY39420 - The Nazi Dictatorship: Regime and Society in Germany 1933-1945
- HA21820 - Concro'r Byd: Twf a Chwymp Ymerodraethau Prydain a Ffrainc
- HC23520 - Cymru a'r Tuduriaid
- HY38520 - Between Revolution and Reform: China since 1800
- HY36520 - The European Reformation
- HY26520 - The European Reformation
- HA24520 - Stori America, 1607-1867, ar Ffilm a Theledu
- HA31820 - Concro'r Byd: Tŵf a Chwymp Ymerodraethau Prydain a Ffrainc
- HA34520 - Stori America, 1607-1867, ar Ffilm a Theledu
- HY39320 - Culture, Society and the Victorians
- HY29320 - Culture, Society and the Victorians
- HA29320 - Diwylliant, Cymdeithas a'r Fictoriaid
- HA39320 - Diwylliant, Cymdeithas a'r Fictoriaid
- HQ33120 - Ritual, kingship and power in Norman and Angevin England: methods, sources & actors (Part 1)
- HQ37520 - Britain at War 1939-45 (Part 1)
- HQ37620 - Britain at War 1939-45 (Part 2)
- HQ33220 - Ritual, kingship and power in Norman and Angevin England: methods, sources & actors (Part 2)
- HY25520 - Famine in Medieval England
- HY39220 - From Poor Law to Welfare State: Poverty and Welfare in Modern Britain, 1815-1948
- HY35520 - Famine in Medieval England
- HY23120 - Reading a Building
- HY38920 - Roads to Modernity: Germany and Japan in the Age of Empires, 1860s-1930s
- HY35620 - Medieval England and Germany, c. 1050-1250
- HY28920 - Roads to Modernity: Germany and Japan in the Age of Empires, 1860s-1930s
- HY29120 - Environmental History of the Neotropics (Latin America and the Caribbean) in the Capitalocene
- HY24320 - Interdisciplinary and decolonial history
- HY39120 - Environmental History of the Neotropics (Latin America and the Caribbean) in the Capitalocene
- HY25620 - Medieval England and Germany, c. 1050-1250
- WH20120 - Wales and the Kings of Britain: Conflict, Power and Identities in the British Isles 1039-1417
- WH33520 - Wales under the Tudors
- WHM1920 - The Making of Wales
- PGM0410 - Ways of Reading
- WH11720 - People, Power and Identity: Wales 1200-1999
- PGM3510 - Sources for Postgraduate Research in the Modern Humanities and Social Sciences
- WHM1120 - Landownership and Society in Wales
- WHM1220 - Class and Community in Wales 1850 - 1939
- CY30720 - Beirdd a Noddwyr: Llên a Hanes c.1300 - 1500
- PGM3610 - Texts that made the Middle Ages: Latin for postgraduates
- PGM4420 - Qualitative Data Collection and Analysis (1120)
- WH23520 - Wales under the Tudors
- WH30120 - Wales and the Kings of Britain: Conflict, Power and Identities in the British Isles 1039-1417
- WHM1060 - Dissertation: Welsh History
- CY20720 - Beirdd a Noddwyr: Llên a Hanes c.1300-1500
- HYM0020 - Medieval London c. 1200 - 1500
Coordinator
Office Hours (Student Contact Times)
- Thursday 16:10-17:00
- Friday 12:30-14:00
Publications
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
Li, Y 2021, 'Review of Faithful Fighters: Identity and Power in the British Indian Army', Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 80, no. 1, pp. 255. 10.1017/S002191182000409X
Chen, L & Li, Y 2021, 'Seeking ‘A Fair Field’ for Women in the Legal Profession: Pioneering Women Lawyers from Burma of 1924-1935', Britain and the World, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 105-127. 10.3366/brw.2020.0356
Li, Y 2018, 'Yearning to Belong: Malaysia’s Indian Muslims, Chitties, Portuguese Eurasians, Peranakan Chinese and Baweanese', Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 149-153.
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