Dr LI Siyi

Dr Li obtained his PhD in Cultural Studies and MA in Intercultural Studies as well as Linguistics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and his BA in Humanities from Wuhan University, China. He used to be a visiting fellow at Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University from 2016 to 2017. Li's research interests include modernity and modernism, critical theories, visual studies, and modern Chinese literature and culture. His PhD dissertation was turned into his first academic monograph, Railway Modernity in China, 1840-1937 (Taipei: 2020), which is the first book-length study of trains and railways from the late Qing to the Republican China from the perspective of modernity and cultural theories. His second book, titled Ten Lessons on Chinese Literature and Film is scheduled to be published in Hong Kong by Chung Hwa Book in 2022. He also published several peer-review journal articles in related fields. 

Prior to joining Caritas Institute of Higher Education, Dr Li worked as a part-time lecturer at CUHK, EduHK, and HKMU, offering more than ten different courses on humanities, critical theory, modern Chinese literature and culture for BA and MA programs since 2018.

a) Journal articles
1. "Encountering the Strangers: The Trial of Desire in Shi Zhecun's Works on Railway Journey," in Chinese Modern Literature, Issue 37, Taipei: Association of the Study of Chinese Modern Literature, June 2020: 87-104.

2. "The Crisis of Trust and Deceptive Practices in Zhang Henshui's Shanghai Express," in Journal of Modern Chinese Literature, Issue 3, Shanghai: East China Normal University, June 2020: 39-45.

3. "Imagining and Mapping a Nation State: On Sun Yat-Sen's Railway Thoughts and Plans," in Journal of the History of Ideas in East Asia, Issue 14, Taipei: National Chengchi University, June 2018: 359-406.

4. "The Subject Decides to Die: An Interpretation of Hegel and Lacan's Theories of Subjects," in Cultural Studies Bimonthly, Issue 147, Taipei: Cultural Studies Association, November 2014: 23-38.

5. "The Paradox between Body and Dialectics," in Wuda Philosophical Review, Issue 11, Beijing: China Social Sciences Press, October 2013: 84-97.

b) Academic monographs
1. Railway Modernity in China: The Temporal-Spatial Experience and the Cultural Imagination of Trains, 1840-1937 (Taipei: China Times, 2020).

2. Ten Lessons on Literature and Film (Hong Kong: Chung Hwa Book, 2022).
c) Book chapters
1. "Strangers on the Train: the Trial of Self in Shi Zhecun's Short Fictions", in The New Research Paradigms of Chinese Literature and Culture .
2. "The Planed Self: On Yu Dafu's Railway Journeys and Landscape Writing", in Three Trends in Recent Studies of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture. 
d) Conference presentations and speeches
1. 亞洲研究2022年會議（夏威夷大學2022）：The Association for Asian Studies 2022 Annual Conference, University of Hawaii. Paper Presentation: Poverty as Landscape: On Qu Qiubai's and Xu Zhimo's Travel Writings of Their Railway Journeys to Soviet Russia in the 1920s. Honolulu, March 2022.
2. 講座: 《鐵路現代性》—— 晚清至民國的時空體驗與文化想像 （香港中文大學2021）Center for Cultural Studies, CUHK. Hong Kong, November 2021.
3. 物質文化與新物質主義研討會 （香港中文大學2021）Workshop on Materiality and Materialism, Center for Cultural Studies, CUHK. Paper Presentation: Modern Chinese Intellectuals and the problem of "Long". Hong Kong, May 2021.
4.《鐵路現代性》新書研討會：理論的物化與物的理論化 (復旦大學2021) Railway Modernity: the materialization of theories and the theorization of materiality, Fudan University. Shanghai, April 2021.
5. 英國國家學術院、中英高等教育人文聯盟首屆青年學者論壇 （復旦大學2019）UK - China Early Career Research Collaboration Symposium: Cities in Literary Imagination, The British Academy & The UK-China Humanities Alliance, Fudan University. Paper Presentation: Ghosts in the City. Shanghai, September 2019.
6. 華文與比較文學2019年年會（長沙師範大學2019）The Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature Biennial Conference: Airing the States, Hunan Normal University. Paper Presentation: Trains and Dragons: Railway Modernity in Dianshizhai Huabao. Changsha, July 2019.
7. "五四之後：當代人文的三個方向- 夏志清、李歐梵、劉再復" 學術研討會（香港科技大學2019）After May Fourth: Three Tendencies of Contemporary Humanities, HKUST. Paper Presentation: May Fourth Intellectuals and their Railway Journeys. Hong Kong, May 2019.
8. "中國文學與文化研究範式新探索" 學術研討會（復旦大學2018）The New Research Paradigms of Chinese Literature and Culture, Fudan University. Paper Presentation: Poverty and Landscape in Qu Qiubai and Xu Zhimo's Writings. Shanghai, December 2018.
9.「跨」與「轉」：現當代華語文學文化的遺產、變革與現代性學術研討會 （台灣中央研究院2018）Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature and Culture in the Cross- and the Trans- Conference, Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica. Paper Presentation: The Naming Story of Trains and Railways, A Reflection from the Perspective of Things and Technology on Modernity. Taipei, November 2018.
10. 華文與比較文學2017年年會（香港中文大學2017）The Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature Biennial Conference: Text, Media, and Transcultural Negotiation, CUHK. Paper Presentation: Subject and Landscape in Republican China. Hong Kong, June 2017.
11. 哥倫比亞大學東亞研究第26屆研究生會議（哥倫比亞大學2016）The 26th Annual Columbia Graduate Student Conference on East Asia, Columbia University. Paper Presentation: Rearticulating Modernity in Dianshizhai Pictorial. New York, Feb 2016. 
12. "辯證法的傳統：東方與西方" 學術研討會（華東師範大學2012）The Tradition of Dialectic: the East and the West, East China Normal University. Paper Presentation: The Paradox of Dialectic in Lu Xun's Old Tales Retold. Shanghai, November 2012.
e) Translation
- [英] 伯特南·羅素，《人是否平庸，要看他无聊时做什么》 李思逸編譯 （北京：中國文聯出版社，2022年4月。）
- [美] 佩格·蒂特尔，《图利的猫：史上最著名的116个思想悖论》 李思逸譯（重慶：重慶大學出版社，2012年5月）。