Dr. Kaiyi Li is a research fellow in the Media|Transformation department at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute. She received her Master degree at Beijing Normal University with a focus on social education media at the beginning of the 20th century in China. She did her PhD at the GEI and received her PhD in history of education with a focus on the education cooperation between the League of Nations and China during the interwar period from TU Braunschweig. Her research fields include the tranformation of educational media in China, digitalization of education in China, the transnational history of Chinese education, the history of the League of Nations.
She is currently Principal Investigator in the project The Digital Transformation of School Education in China: Policies, Governance Structures and Local Stakeholders.
Publications
Monographs
- Kaiyi Li (2021) Transnational Education between the League of Nations and China, Palgrave Macmillan.
Articles
- Wang Shaofang and Kaiyi Li (2022). “Chapter 14 Military Skills and War Readiness: Students’ Summer Military Drill in China in 1934”. In Sebastian Engelmann, et al. (Ed.), War and Education: The Pedagogical Preparation for Collective Mass Violence. Leiden, Nederland: Brill|Schöningh.
- Kaiyi Li (2022). “Chinese Occidentalism and Educational Tour.” In George Noblit (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. New York: Oxford University Press. Available online.
- Kaiyi Li (2021) A Cultural Response to a Rural Crisis: Educational Films for Rural Society in INterwar China, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 41:2, 251-269.
- Kaiyi Li (2021) The use of foreign examples to support educational policy decisions: the Chinese Education Mission to Europe in 1932, Paedagogica Historica, 57:1-2, 164-182.
- Kaiyi Li (2020) Education, Entertainment, and Indoctrination: Educational Film in Interwar China, Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society, 12:1,24-42.
- Kaiyi Li (2017) 传统延续与跨国影响：清末民初社会教育的起源, 终身教育研究, 28:2,60-65.
- Shi Kecen and Kaiyi Li (2012) 江湖与庙堂：北洋政府时期社会教育的路径选择—以通俗教育研究会为考察对象, 33:5, 1027-107.
Reviews
- Peter Zarrow, Education China: Knowledge, Society, and Textbook in a modernizing World, 1902-1937. Reviewed in 2017, Frontier of Education in China, 12:2, 306-307.
