About Jingyi Li

Hello! I am a PhD candidate at the University of Arizona working on early modern Japanese history. My research focuses on Japanese cultural and literary history, but I am also interested in popular culture, intellectual history, and literature. My dissertation project explores the identities of the literati groups in the nineteenth century.

Jingyi Li is a PhD Candidate in Japanese History at the University of Arizona. She researches about early modern Japan, literati, and commercial publishing.

NBN Episodes hosted by Jingyi:

Thomas D. Conlan, "Kings in All But Name: The Lost History of Ouchi Rule in Japan, 1350-1569" (Oxford UP, 2024)

March 17, 2024

Kings in All But Name

Thomas D. Conlan
Hosted by Jingyi Li

In the sixteenth century, members of the Ouchi family were kings in all but name in much of Japan. Immensely wealthy, they controlled sea lanes stretc…

Amanda Kennell, "Alice in Japanese Wonderlands: Translation, Adaptation, Mediation" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)

January 4, 2024

Alice in Japanese Wonderlands

Amanda Kennell
Hosted by Jingyi Li

Since the first translations of Lewis Carroll’s Alice books appeared in Japan in 1899, Alice has found her way into nearly every facet of Japanese lif…

Matthieu Felt, "Meanings of Antiquity: Myth Interpretation in Premodern Japan" (Harvard UP, 2023)

December 29, 2023

Meanings of Antiquity

Matthieu Felt
Hosted by Jingyi Li

Meanings of Antiquity: Myth Interpretation in Premodern Japan (Harvard UP, 2023) is the first dedicated study of how the oldest Japanese myths, record…

Olga V. Solovieva, "The Russian Kurosawa: Transnational Cinema, Or the Art of Speaking Differently" (Oxford UP. 2023)

December 22, 2023

The Russian Kurosawa

Olga V. Solovieva
Hosted by Jingyi Li

Olga V. Solovieva's book The Russian Kurosawa: Transnational Cinema, Or the Art of Speaking Differently (Oxford UP. 2023) offers a new historical pers…

Harry Harootunian, "Archaism and Actuality: Japan and the Global Fascist Imaginary" (Duke UP, 2023)

November 19, 2023

Archaism and Actuality

Harry Harootunian
Hosted by Jingyi Li

In Archaism and Actuality: Japan and the Global Fascist Imaginary (Duke UP, 2023) eminent Marxist historian Harry Harootunian explores the formation o…

David C. Atherton, "Writing Violence: The Politics of Form in Early Modern Japanese Literature" (Columbia UP, 2023)

October 23, 2023

Writing Violence

David C. Atherton
Hosted by Jingyi Li
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Edo-period Japan was a golden age for commercial literature. A host of new narrative genres cast their gaze across the social landscape, probed the re…

Satsuki Takahashi, "Fukushima Futures: Survival Stories in a Repeatedly Ruined Seascape" (U Washington Press, 2023)

August 12, 2023

Fukushima Futures

Satsuki Takahashi
Hosted by Jingyi Li

Both before and after the 2011 "Triple Disaster" of earthquake, tidal wave, and consequent meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, anth…

Jae DiBello Takeuchi, "Language Ideologies and L2 Speaker Legitimacy: Native Speaker Bias in Japan" (Mulitlingual Matters, 2023)

August 1, 2023

Language Ideologies and L2 Speaker Legitimacy

Jae DiBello Takeuchi
Hosted by Jingyi Li
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Jae DiBello Takeuchi's Language Ideologies and L2 Speaker Legitimacy: Native Speaker Bias in Japan (Mulitlingual Matters, 2023) examines dilemmas face…

Matthew Mewhinney, "Form and Feeling in Japanese Literati Culture" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

April 10, 2023

Form and Feeling in Japanese Literati Culture

Matthew Mewhinney
Hosted by Jingyi Li

Matthew Mewhinney's Form and Feeling in Japanese Literati Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) explores how two early modern and two modern Japanese wri…

Leslie Bow, "Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy" (Duke UP, 2022)

February 8, 2023

Racist Love

Leslie Bow
Hosted by Jingyi Li

In Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy (Duke UP, 2022), Leslie Bow traces the ways in which Asian Americans become objects of …

Robert O'Mochain and Yuki Ueno, "Sexual Abuse and Education in Japan: In the (Inter)National Shadows" (Routledge, 2022)

February 1, 2023

Sexual Abuse and Education in Japan

Robert O'Mochain and Yuki Ueno
Hosted by Jingyi Li

Bringing together two voices, practice and theory, in a collaboration that emerges from lived experience and structured reflection upon that experienc…

Jonathan Dil, "Haruki Murakami and the Search for Self-Therapy: Stories from the Second Basement" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

December 24, 2022

Haruki Murakami and the Search for Self-Therapy

Jonathan Dil
Hosted by Jingyi Li

Haruki Murakami, a global literary phenomenon, has said that he started writing fiction as a means of self-therapy. What he has not discussed as much …

Stevie Suan, "Anime's Identity: Performativity and Form Beyond Japan" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)

December 23, 2022

Anime's Identity

Stevie Suan
Hosted by Jingyi Li

A formal approach to anime rethinks globalization and transnationality under neoliberalism Anime has become synonymous with Japanese culture, but its …

Wei Yu Wayne Tan, "Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity" (U Michigan Press, 2022)

November 29, 2022

Blind in Early Modern Japan

Wei Yu Wayne Tan
Hosted by Jingyi Li

While the loss of sight—whether in early modern Japan or now—may be understood as a disability, blind people in the Tokugawa period (1600–1868) could …

Johanna O. Zulueta, "Okinawan Women's Stories of Migration: From War Brides to Issei" (Routledge, 2022)

September 30, 2022

Okinawan Women's Stories of Migration

Johanna O. Zulueta
Hosted by Jingyi Li

The phenomenon of “war brides” from Japan moving to the West has been quite widely discussed, but this book tells the stories of women whose lives fol…

Morgan Pitelka and Reiko Tanimura, "Letters from Japan's Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries" (IEAS, 2021)

September 7, 2022

Letters from Japan's Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Morgan Pitelka and Reiko Tanimura
Hosted by Jingyi Li

Cultural historians Morgan Pitelka and Reiko Tanimura partner with one of Japan’s premier experts in calligraphy and letter writing, Takashi Masuda, t…

Charo B. D'Etcheverry, "Celebrating Sorrow: Medieval Tributes to the Tale of Sagoromo" (Cornell UP, 2022)

September 6, 2022

Celebrating Sorrow

Charo B. D'Etcheverry
Hosted by Jingyi Li

Celebrating Sorrow: Medieval Tributes to the Tale of Sagoromo (Cornell UP, 2022) explores the medieval Japanese fascination with grief in tributes to …

Thomas Donald Conlan, "Samurai and the Warrior Culture of Japan, 471-1877: A Sourcebook" (Hackett, 2022)

August 30, 2022

Samurai and the Warrior Culture of Japan, 471-1877

Thomas Donald Conlan
Hosted by Jingyi Li

In addition to providing excerpts from classic tales of Japan’s warrior past, Samurai and the Warrior Culture of Japan, 471-1877: A Sourcebook (Hacket…

Michael Ackland, "The Existentialist Vision of Haruki Murakami" (Cambria Press, 2022)

August 29, 2022

The Existentialist Vision of Haruki Murakami

Michael Ackland
Hosted by Jingyi Li

Haruki Murakami has often been accused of being a feckless, merely popular writer, but in The Existentialist Vision of Haruki Murakami (Cambria Press,…

Anoma Van Der Veere et al., "Public Health in Asia During the Covid-19 Pandemic" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)

August 15, 2022

Public Health in Asia During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Anoma Van Der Veere, Florian Schneider, and Catherine Lo
Hosted by Jingyi Li

Every nation in Asia has dealt with COVID-19 differently and with varying levels of success in the absence of clear and effective leadership from the …

Joshua A. Fogel and Matthew Fraleigh, "Sino-Japanese Reflections: Literary and Cultural Interactions between China and Japan in Early Modernity" (de Gruyter, 2022)

August 2, 2022

Sino-Japanese Reflections

Joshua A. Fogel and Matthew Fraleigh
Hosted by Jingyi Li

Joshua A. Fogel and Matthew Fraleigh's edited volume Sino-Japanese Reflections: Literary and Cultural Interactions between China and Japan in Early Mo…

Peter Kornicki, "Eavesdropping on the Emperor: Interrogators and Codebreakers in Britain's War With Japan" (Oxford UP, 2021)

August 1, 2022

Eavesdropping on the Emperor

Peter Kornicki
Hosted by Jingyi Li

When Japanese signals were decoded at Bletchley Park, who translated them into English? When Japanese soldiers were taken as prisoners of war, who int…

W. Puck Brecher, "Animal Care in Japanese Tradition: A Short History" (Association for Asian Studies, 2022)

July 6, 2022

Animal Care in Japanese Tradition

W. Puck Brecher
Hosted by Jingyi Li

In Animal Care in Japanese Tradition: A Short History (Association for Asian Studies, 2022), Brecher offers a brief overview of animals in Japanese cu…

Rachael Hutchinson and Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon, "Japanese Role-Playing Games: Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the JRPG" (Lexington Books, 2022)

June 27, 2022

Japanese Role-Playing Games

Rachael Hutchinson and Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon
Hosted by Jingyi Li

Rachael Hutchinson and Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon's edited volume Japanese Role-Playing Games: Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the JRPG (Lexing…