Dr Yu-Wai (Vic) Li
School of East Asian Studies
Lecturer in East Asian Studies
Full contact details
School of East Asian Studies
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
Sheffield
S3 7RA
- 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) China’s Financial Opening: Coalition Politics and Policy Changes (New York: Routledge).
Journal articles
- Li, Y. (2022) ‘Trading as usual? Navigating Hong Kong’s Roles in Global Trade Architectures’, Asia Pacific Business Review 28 (5), 701-18.
- Li, Y. (2020) ‘The Irreplaceable Outpost? Whither Hong Kong in China’s Financial Future’, The China Review 20 (3), 261-78.
- Chey, H.K. and Li, Y. (2020) ‘Chinese Domestics Politics and the Internationalization of the Renminbi’, Political Science Quarterly 135 (1): 37-65.
- Li, Y. (2019) ‘Leveraging Asia’s Financial Hub for the AIIB: Hong Kong and Singapore’, Global Policy 10 (4), 660-66.
- Li, Y. (2018) ‘Hong Kong in China’s Financial Globalization: Market Power and Political Leverage’, Asian Survey 58 (3), 439-63.
- Miao, B, and Li, Y. (2017) ‘Local Climate Governance under Shadow of Hierarchy: Evidence from China’s Yangtze River Delta’, Urban Policy and Research 35 (3), 298-311.
- Li, Y. (2016) ‘Two Tales of China's Sport Diplomacy: Post-handover Hong Kong and Macau SARs Compared’, International Journal of the History of Sport 33 (11), 1284-1302.
- Miao, B, and Li, Y. (2016) ‘Local Interests Meet Global Regime: China’s Subnational Politics in Clean Development Mechanism of Kyoto Protocol’, Economic and Political Studies 4 (3), 258-77.
- Li, Y. (2013) ‘Public Diplomacy Strategies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2012 London Olympics: A Comparative Study’, The International Journal of the History of Sport 13 (5), 1723-34.
- Li, Y., Miao, B, and Lang G. (2011), ‘The Local Environmental State in China: A Study of County-Level Cities in Suzhou’, The China Quarterly 205, 115-32.
- Li, Y. and Lang G. (2010) ‘Ecological Modernization or the ‘Treadmill of Production’? The Attempt to Implement ‘Green GDP’ Accounting in China’, 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 China in a World of Great Power Competition, 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 The Future of Multilateralism and Globalization in the Age of Sino-US Rivalry, 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 Handbook of the International Political Economy of China, edited by K. Zeng, Edward Elgar, pp. 170-89.
- Li, Y. (2018) ‘China’s Green GDP and Environmental Accounting’, in Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Development in Asia, edited by S. Hsu, Routledge, pp. 550-65.
- Li, Y. (2018), ‘Power Plays from the Fringe: East Asian Responses to Derivatives Reform” in Governing the World’s Biggest Market: The Politics of Derivatives Regulation After the 2008 Crisis, edited by E. Helleiner, S. Pagliari, and I. Spagna, Oxford University Press, pp. 107-36.