ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5991-2683

Ph.D. in Cultural Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), 2018

M.A. in Intercultural Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), 2012

M.A. in Linguistics, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), 2011

B.A. in Humanities, Wuhan University, 2010

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.

Modern Chinese Literature and Culture

Modernity and Modernism

Critical Theories

Visual and Film Studies

CAH4508 East Asian Film Cultures

CAH5703 Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature

CAH5737 Narrative Fiction and Contemporary Chinese Literature