Li, Yiwen
Associate Professorc
Southeast Asian Studies
City University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Biography
Yiwen Li is an Assistant Professor teaching history and cultural heritage at the City University of Hong Kong. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of History, Yale University and studies maritime trade and cultural exchanges in pre-modern East Asian world. Her dissertation Networks of Profit and Faith: Spanning the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea, 838-1402, which focuses on Sino-Japanese relations during the five centuries when their official diplomatic relationship was suspended, won the Arthur and Mary Wright Prize for the best doctoral dissertation in non-Western History (2017).She earned her BA (2008) and MA (2011) from Peking University. In 2014-15, she was a Japan Foundation Fellow at the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University.
Research Interest
Long-distance Trade in Pre-modern World
Publications
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“Chinese Objects Recovered from Sutra Mounds in Japan, 1000-1300.†In Visual and Material Cultures in Middle Period China, edited by Patricia Buckley Ebrey and Shih-shan Susan Huang (Leiden: Brill, 2017), pp. 284-318.
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Deforestation in Southeast China and Lumber in Sino-Japanese Trade, 1100-1270.†Ewha-Yale Workshop: Ecology, Culture, History, Seoul, South Korea. July 7, 2017.
