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Yi Li

Associate Professor
DepartmentSchool of Public Administration, Hohai University
Areas of Expertiseregional planning, regional transportation infrastructures

Research interests:

Yi’s research examines the governance of mega city-regions, following her Ph.D study on the changing regional governance in China with a case study of Yangtze River Delta. Her work has covered different aspects of Chinese regional governance ranging from regional planning, regional association building towards competition/collaboration on provision of regional transportation infrastructures.

Qualifications:

BA, Geography, East China Normal University (Shanghai, China), 2003

MA, Geography, Nanjing University (Nanjing, China), 2006

Ph.D, Geography, Cardiff University (Cardiff, UK), 2011

Posts: 

2017/3-present, School of Public Administration, Hohai University, Nanjing, Associate professor, Academic staff

2012/9-2017/2, School of Geography and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Assistant professor, Academic staff

2006/9-2007/8, Institute of City Planning and Design of Nanjing University, Nanjing, Assistant researcher, Academic staff

Previous research experience:

Yi has been lead investigator on: 

The development of transboundary edge city: experiences from Yangtze River Delta, Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [grant number 41601157, 170,000 RMB] 

State spatial imaginaries and state rescaling: A case study of Jiangsu, Project supported by the Scientific Research Staring Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, Ministry of Education of China [50,000 RMB]

Publications:

Li Y, Jonas A.E.G.* 2019, City-regionalism as countervailing geopolitical processes: The evolution and dynamics of Yangtze River Delta region, China. Political Geography 73: 70-81.

Yang J, Li Y*, Hay I, Huang X. 2019, Decoding national new area development in China: Toward new land development and politics. Cities 87:114-20.

Li Y*, Wu F, 2018, Understanding city regionalism in China: regional cooperation in the Yangtze River Delta. Regional Studies 52: 313-324.

Huang X, Li Y*, Hay I, 2016, Polycentric city-regions in the state-scalar politics of land development: the case of China. Land Use Policy 59: 168-175.

Li Y*, Wu F, Hay I, 2015, City-region integration policies and their incongruous outcomes: the case of Shantou-Chaozhou-Jieyang city-region in east Guangdong Province, China. Habitat International 46: 214-222.

Li Y*, Wu F, 2014, Reconstructing urban scale: New experiments with the "Provincial Administration of Counties" Reform in China. The China Review 14: 147-173.

Huang X, Li Y*, Yu R, Zhao X, 2014, Reconsidering the controversial land use policy of “Linking the Decrease in Rural Construction Land with the Increase in Urban Construction Land”: a local government perspective. The China Review 14: 175-198.

Li Y*, Wu F, 2013, The emergence of centrally initiated regional plan in China: a case study of Yangtze River Delta Regional Plan. Habitat International 39: 137-147.

Li Y, Wu F*, 2012, The transformation of regional governance in China: the rescaling of statehood. Progress in Planning 78: 55-99.

Li Y*, Wu F, 2012, Towards new regionalism? Case study of changing regional governance in the Yangtze River Delta. Asia Pacific Viewpoint 53: 178-195.