Li Li


Professional Details

Title Professor
Department History
Office Sullivan Building 102E
Phone 978.542.6158
Email li.li@salemstate.edu
Photo of Li Li

Recent and Upcoming Courses

HST 108 War and Society in World History
HST 240 History of China
HST 241 History of the Far East
HST 242 History of Japan
HST 293 Chinese Medicine: Yoga, Acupuncture, Herb, & Seppuku
HST 294 Covid-19 and Beyond: Pandemics Famines in East Asia
HST 295 Asian Pacific On Fire: Crises in North Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South China Sea
HST 296 Romance and Adventure On the Silk Road
HST 297 Becoming American: History of Chinese and Japanese Americans
HST 298 Dalai, Kung Fu, Sumo, and Fengshu: History of Buddhism, Confucianism, Shintoism, and Taoism
HST 299 Samurai, Geisha, Emperor, and Concubine: Chinese and Japanese Historical Movies and Novels
HST 700 Historiography
HST 913 Topics in Chinese History
HST 989 Topics in World History

Professional Biography

Ph.D.: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill;

M.A.: University of South Carolina;

B.A.: Peking University.

 

Professional Interests

History of US-China Relations;

The Old China Trade (Salem-Canton);

Development of Shanghai.

Selected Publications

Mission in Suzhou: Sophie Lanneau and Wei Ling Girl's Academy, 1907-1950 (New Orleans: University Press of the South, 1999);

Review of Forced to Be Good: Why Trade Agreements Boost Human Rights by Emilie M. Hafner-Burton, Human Rights Review, Fall 2009;

Review of The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression by James Mann. Human Rights Review, Summer 2008;

Review of Human Rights in Asia: A Comparative Legal Study of Twelve Asian Jurisdictions, France and the USA by Randall Peerenboom, Carole. J. Petersen and Albert H. Y. Chen (eds). Human Rights Review, Spring 2008;

"From Southern Baptist Identity to Chinese Baptist Identity, 1850-1950," in Baptist Identities: International Studies from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries, ed. Ian M. Randall,Toivo Pilli, and Anthony R. Cross (Bletchley, Milton Keynes, UK: Paternoster, 2006), 241-256;

Selected Presentations

“The China Trade and the Rise of the Tea Culture in New England,” International Conference of Asian Food Study, Shaoxing, China, October 2013;

Panel Organizer and Presenter, “Creating an Open and Global Mind: Case Studies on New England Global Programs,” American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) Global Learning in College conference, October 2013;

“Southern Baptist Missions in China—A Review of History, Archives, and Scholarship,” International Symposium on Sinology and Sino-Foreign Cultural Relations and Exchanges, Hangzhou, China, Nov 2012;

“A Comparative Study of Sino-American Merchants,” International Conference on Sino-Foreign Communication and World Civilizations, Guangzhou, China, Dec 2011;

Panel Organizer and Presenter, “The East Asia Challenge and American Higher Education,” American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) Annual Meeting 2011;

Panel Organizer and Presenter, "Making Liberal Education a Bridge to the Globe," Annual Meeting of the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), January 2010;

Panel Organizer and Presenter, "The China Challenge and American Higher Education," Annual Meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, January 2009;

COPPER Project Presentation, COPPER Cluster and the New England Faculty Development Consortium, June 2, 2006;

"Salem Merchants and Canton Merchants," A Presentation at the China Trade Symposium, Boston Athenaeum, May 20, 2005.