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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.
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Deborah Louise Crompton
Person: Doctor of Philosophy
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Chinese in Colonial Myanmar
Li, Y., 17 Apr 2024, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History. Oxford University PressResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
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A Cantonese Carpenters’ strike in Rangoon, 1922
Li, Y., 07 Mar 2022, Strenuous Decades: Global Challenges and Transformation of Chinese Societies in Modern Asia. Choi, C.-C., Shiroyama, T. & Viana, V. (eds.). De Gruyter, Vol. 2. p. 121-140 20 p. (Social and Cultural Changes in China; vol. 2).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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The Unsuccessful Development of Southern Burmese Tin Mines in the Nineteenth Century
Li, Y., 21 Feb 2022, Spatial Histories of Occupation: Colonialism, Conquest and Foreign Control in Asia. Baillargeon, D. & Taylor, J. (eds.). London: Bloomsbury, p. 99-118 20 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Review of Faithful Fighters: Identity and Power in the British Indian Army
Li, Y., 25 Feb 2021, In: Journal of Asian Studies. 80, 1, p. 255 1 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article Review
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Yearning to Belong: Malaysia’s Indian Muslims, Chitties, Portuguese Eurasians, Peranakan Chinese and Baweanese
Li, Y., Apr 2018, In: Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia. 7, 1, p. 149-153 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article Review › peer-review
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Chinese in Colonial Burma: A Migrant Community in A Multiethnic State
Li, Y., 27 Feb 2017, 1 ed. Springer Nature. 262 p. (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series)Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Cultural Activities of the Chinese Community in Post-war Myanmar
Li, Y., 30 Dec 2017, Citizens, Civil Society and Heritage-making in Asia. Hsiao, H.-H. M., Hui, Y.-F. & Peycam, P. (eds.). Singapore: ISEAS Publishing, p. 185–207 22 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Mapping Chinese Rangoon: Place and Nation among the Sino-Burmese Jayde Lin Roberts Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2016 xvii + 200 pp. $50.00 ISBN 978-0-295-99667-7
Li, Y., 01 Sept 2017, In: The China Quarterly. 231, p. 832-833 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article Review › peer-review
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Governing the Chinese in Multi-ethnic Colonial Burma between the 1890s and 1920s
Li, Y., 01 Mar 2016, In: South East Asia Research. 24, 1, p. 135–154 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Revisiting the Nineteenth-century Market Place, and the Chinese Community in Moulmein
Li, Y., 30 Jun 2016, In: Journal of Burma Studies. 20, 1, p. 63–103 41 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Transformation of the Yunnanese community along the Sino–Burma border: A case study in the southwest during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Li, Y., 30 Sept 2015, Imperial China and Its Southern Neighbours. Mair, V. H. & Kelley, L. C. (eds.). Singapore: ISEAS Publishing, p. 291–315 24 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
84 Citations (Scopus)
Projects
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Stories of peace from Myanmar to Wales: place-based storytelling and pedagogic decolonising for displaced youth
Li, Y. (PI)
Prifysgol Aberystwyth | Aberystwyth University
01 Dec 2024 → 30 Jun 2025
Project: Externally funded research
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Chiang Mai University
Li, Y. (Visiting researcher)
Jan 2024 → Jul 2024Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution
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Online Place-based Storytelling Training for Myanmar teachers
Li, Y. (Organiser)
18 Oct 2023 → 15 Nov 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Workshop, Seminar, or Course
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St. David in the East: Welsh communities in East and Southeast Asia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Li, Y. (Organiser), Lopes, H. (Organiser) & Jansen, T. (Organiser)
22 Aug 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Workshop, Seminar, or Course