Dr Yu-Wai (Vic) Li

School of East Asian Studies

Lecturer in East Asian Studies

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Dr Yu-Wai (Vic) Li
School of East Asian Studies
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
葫芦影业
S3 7RA
Profile

Dr Yu-wai Vic Li specialises in International Political Economy with a concentration on East Asia鈥檚 financial opening and regulatory politics. His earlier competitive-funded projects focused on China鈥檚 capital market and renminbi internationalization, and transnational regulatory politics between the EU and Asia鈥檚 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

BSocSci Politics (HKU)

MPhil International Relations (HKU)

PhD Global Governance (Wilfrid Laurier University)

Research interests

Research Interests

  • Political economy of green transition in East Asia
  • Green finance standard setting in China and Japan
  • Financial regulations of Asia鈥檚 capital markets
  • Political economy of financial opening and regulation of China
  • Central-bank digital currencies
  • Economic and financial tradecraft
Teaching activities

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) 鈥樷, Asia Pacific Business Review 28 (5), 701-18.
  • Li, Y. (2020) 鈥樷, The China Review 20 (3), 261-78.
  • Chey, H.K. and Li, Y. (2020) 鈥樷, Political Science Quarterly 135 (1): 37-65.
  • Li, Y. (2019) 鈥樷, Global Policy 10 (4), 660-66.
  • Li, Y. (2018) 鈥, Asian Survey 58 (3), 439-63.
  • Miao, B, and Li, Y. (2017) 鈥樷, Urban Policy and Research 35 (3), 298-311.
  • Li, Y. (2016) 鈥樷, International Journal of the History of Sport 33 (11), 1284-1302.
  • Miao, B, and Li, Y. (2016) 鈥樷, Economic and Political Studies 4 (3), 258-77.
  • Li, Y. (2013) 鈥樷, The International Journal of the History of Sport 13 (5), 1723-34.
  • Li, Y., Miao, B, and Lang G. (2011), 鈥樷, The China Quarterly 205, 115-32.
  • Li, Y. and Lang G. (2010) 鈥, Journal of Contemporary Asia 40 (1), 44-62.

Chapters

  • Chey, H.K. and Li, Y. (2023) 鈥楥hinese Domestics Politics and the Internationalization of the Renminbi鈥, in , edited by A. Scobell and J. Staats, Academy of Political Science.
  • Gotoh, F. and Li, Y. (2023) 鈥楥haracteristics of Chinese Capitalism from a Comparative Perspective鈥, in , edited by N. Gaillard, F. Gotoh, and R. Michalek, Routledge, pp. 15-40.
  • Malkin, A. and Li, Y. (2019) 鈥榊ou can check in anytime you like, but you can never leave: The politics of China鈥檚 financial market opening鈥, in , edited by K. Zeng, Edward Elgar, pp. 170-89.
  • Li, Y. (2018) 鈥楥hina鈥檚 Green GDP and Environmental Accounting鈥, in , edited by S. Hsu, Routledge, pp. 550-65.
  • Li, Y. (2018), 鈥楶ower Plays from the Fringe: East Asian Responses to Derivatives Reform鈥 in , edited by E. Helleiner, S. Pagliari, and I. Spagna, Oxford University Press, pp. 107-36.