Li Wang

Li Wang is an associated professor of Shanghai University of Science and Technology. She received her Ph.D. in modern Chinese history in 2012 from Fudan University in Shanghai.

Wang’s academic interest is primarily the financial history of modern China, with a special focus on institutional and financial reform of the Republican China. Between 2008 and 2012 she participated in joint projects between the Hoover Institution Archives and Fudan University on archival collections and publications. She was a recipient of several government funding and awards in the fields of teaching and research. Her publications include a Chinese book entitled American Financial Advisor Arthur N. Young and Wartime Finance of Republic of China (Shanghai: Orient Publishing Center) and several journal articles published in leading academic journals in China.

Wang Li has been working on the political leadership of modern China based on archival materials abroad. She is currently exploring the historical formation of China’s modernization as well as the interpretation of the evolving image of the Chinese Communist Party from a fresh and comparative perspective.