Prof. LI Yiwen (李怡文)

Yiwen Li is associate professor of history at City University of Hong Kong. She received her Ph.D. in History from Yale University, and her dissertation won the Arthur and Mary Wright Prize for the best doctoral dissertation in non-Western History (2017).  Her research interests include maritime East Asia, material culture, and the Buddhist monastic economy. Her first book, Networks of Faith and Profit: Monks, Merchants, and Exchanges between China and Japan, 839 - 1403 CE, is published by Cambridge University Press in their "Asian Connections" series. (New Books Networks Interview on Networks of Faith and Profit.)

Li is currently working on her second project, "Sacred Crafts: Artisans and Buddhist Monasteries in China and Japan, 960 - 1368." She is also a member of the working group "Ability and Authority" at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Dept III.

She earned her BA (2008) and MA (2011) from Peking University. In 2014-15, she was a Japan Foundation Fellow at the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University.

李怡文博士現任香港城市大學中文及歷史學系的副教授。她於美國耶魯大學取得博士學位，並且她的博士論文榮獲Arthur and Mary Wright最佳非西方史學論文獎（2017）。她的研究興趣包括東亞海域史、物質文化史、以及佛教寺院經濟史。她的第一本專著， Networks of Faith and Profit: Monks, Merchants, and Exchanges between China and Japan, 839 - 1403 CE，於2023年由劍橋大學出版社發行。(New Books Network Interview on Networks of Faith and Profit)

李怡文博士現在正在開展另一項關於佛寺與工匠的研究。她同時也是德國馬克普朗克科技史研究所“Ability and Authority”這一工作小組的成員。

李怡文博士分別于2008及2011年在北京大學取得史學學士、史學碩士學位。2014-15年，她在日本國際交流基金的資助下在京都大學人文研訪學。

Courses Taught

• Sources of Chinese Tradition
• Texts in Chinese Art and Culture
• Culture and Heritage of East Asia
• The Study of Dunhuang
• Chinese Civilization: History and Philosophy (Talents Program GE)

East Asian Maritime History

Sino-Japanese Relations

Material Culture

Buddhist Monastic Economy

Elected Fellow, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland