Dr Yu-Wai (Vic) Li
School of Languages, Arts and Societies
Lecturer in East Asian Studies
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- Profile
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Dr Yu-wai Vic Li specialises in International Political Economy with a concentration on East Asia’s financial opening and regulatory politics. His earlier competitive-funded projects focused on China’s capital market and renminbi internationalization, and transnational regulatory politics between the EU and Asia’s capital markets.
Prior to joining the School of East Asian Studies in 2024, Vic was a faculty member at the Department of Social Sciences, Education University of Hong Kong, where he developed extensive research and teaching expertise in international political economy, international relations, and environmental politics/policies.
- Qualifications
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BSocSci Politics (HKU)
MPhil International Relations (HKU)
PhD Global Governance (Wilfrid Laurier University)
- Research interests
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Research Interests
- Political economy of green transition in East Asia
- Green finance standard setting in China and Japan
- Financial regulations of Asia’s capital markets
- Political economy of financial opening and regulation of China
- Central-bank digital currencies
- Economic and financial tradecraft
- Teaching activities
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Teaching Activities
For the academic year 2023-24, I am teaching EAS61004 Perspectives on East Asian Economy & Business
- Publications
Book
- Li, Y. (2018) (New York: Routledge).
Journal articles
- Li, Y. (2022) ‘’, Asia Pacific Business Review 28 (5), 701-18.
- Li, Y. (2020) ‘’, The China Review 20 (3), 261-78.
- Chey, H.K. and Li, Y. (2020) ‘’, Political Science Quarterly 135 (1): 37-65.
- Li, Y. (2019) ‘’, Global Policy 10 (4), 660-66.
- Li, Y. (2018) ‘’, Asian Survey 58 (3), 439-63.
- Miao, B, and Li, Y. (2017) ‘’, Urban Policy and Research 35 (3), 298-311.
- Li, Y. (2016) ‘’, International Journal of the History of Sport 33 (11), 1284-1302.
- Miao, B, and Li, Y. (2016) ‘’, Economic and Political Studies 4 (3), 258-77.
- Li, Y. (2013) ‘’, The International Journal of the History of Sport 13 (5), 1723-34.
- Li, Y., Miao, B, and Lang G. (2011), ‘’, The China Quarterly 205, 115-32.
- Li, Y. and Lang G. (2010) ‘, Journal of Contemporary Asia 40 (1), 44-62.
Chapters
- Chey, H.K. and Li, Y. (2023) ‘Chinese Domestics Politics and the Internationalization of the Renminbi’, in , edited by A. Scobell and J. Staats, Academy of Political Science.
- Gotoh, F. and Li, Y. (2023) ‘Characteristics of Chinese Capitalism from a Comparative Perspective’, in , edited by N. Gaillard, F. Gotoh, and R. Michalek, Routledge, pp. 15-40.
- Malkin, A. and Li, Y. (2019) ‘You can check in anytime you like, but you can never leave: The politics of China’s financial market opening’, in , edited by K. Zeng, Edward Elgar, pp. 170-89.
- Li, Y. (2018) ‘China’s Green GDP and Environmental Accounting’, in , edited by S. Hsu, Routledge, pp. 550-65.
- Li, Y. (2018), ‘Power Plays from the Fringe: East Asian Responses to Derivatives Reform” in , edited by E. Helleiner, S. Pagliari, and I. Spagna, Oxford University Press, pp. 107-36.