Prof. LI Siyi (李思逸)

Siyi LI is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chinese and History at the City University of Hong Kong. He earned his Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2018. His research interests include Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Critical Theories, Comparative Literature, as well as Visual and Film Studies.

Dr. LI is the author of Railway Modernity in China: The Temporal-Spatial Experience and the Cultural Imagination of Trains, 1840-1937 (Taipei, 2020) and Ten Lessons on Literature and Film (Hong Kong, 2023). His current research includes the project “Rearticulating Modernity in China: Trains and Railways in Wartime Literature and Film, 1937-1958” and an exploration of the courage of truth in Lu Xun’s works.

Before joining the City University of Hong Kong, Dr. LI taught at various universities in Hong Kong beginning in 2018. He has delivered a wide range of courses on humanities, critical theory, and modern Chinese literature and culture for both undergraduate (BA) and postgraduate (MA) programs.

李思逸，香港中文大學文化及宗教研究系哲學博士，哈佛燕京學社訪問學人，本科畢業於武漢大學人文科學試驗班。

其研究興趣涵蓋現代中國文學與文化、現代性與現代主義、批判理論、視覺與電影研究等；發表論文十數篇，著有《鐵路現代性：晚清至民國的時空體驗與文化想像》（2020）、《文學與電影十講》（2023）。李思逸目前正從事一項有關戰時書寫和移動經驗（1937-1958）的研究，同時亦關注魯迅與說真話的問題。

在加入城大之前，李思逸曾任教於本港不同高校，教授人文經典、批判理論、電影美學、現當代中國文學等學士、碩士課程。

Modern Chinese Literature and Culture

Modernity and Modernism

Critical Theories

Visual and Film Studies

CAH4508 East Asian Film Cultures

CAH5737 Narrative Fiction and Contemporary Chinese Literature