2021-08-19

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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:
JAPANESE STUDIESAugust 18, 2021
Japan's Aging Peace
Pacifism and Militarism in the Twenty-First Century
Tom Phuong LeHosted by Jingyi Li
Since the end of World War II, Japan has not sought to remilitarize, and its postwar constitution commits to renouncing aggressive warfare. Yet many inside and outside Japan have asked …





JAPANESE STUDIESJune 18, 2021
Dancing the Dharma
Religious and Political Allegory in Japanese Noh Theater
Susan Blakeley KleinHosted by Jingyi Li
Dancing the Dharma: Religious and Political Allegory in Japanese Noh Theater (Harvard UP, 2020) examines the theory and practice of allegory by exploring a select group of medieval Japanese noh …
JAPANESE STUDIESJune 8, 2021
Men in Metal
A Topography of Public Bronze Statuary in Modern Japan
Sven SaalerHosted by Jingyi Li
In his pioneering study, Men in Metal: A Topography of Public Bronze Statuary in Modern Japan (Brill, 2020), Sven Saaler examines Japanese public statuary as a central site of historical memory from …
JAPANESE STUDIESMay 31, 2021
Japan's Private Spheres
Autonomy in Japanese History, 1600-1930
William Puck BrecherHosted by Jingyi Li
Japan's Private Spheres: Autonomy in Japanese History, 1600-1930 (Brill, 2021) traces the shifting nature of autonomy in early modern and modern Japan. In this far-reaching, interdisciplinary study, W. Puck Brecher explores …
JAPANESE STUDIESMay 7, 2021
Women and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Japan

Bettina Gramlich-Oka and Anne WalthallHosted by Jingyi Li
Although scholars have emphasized the importance of women’s networks for civil society in twentieth-century Japan, Women and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Japan (University of Michigan Press, 2020) is the first book to …
JAPANESE STUDIESApril 29, 2021
Beyond Filial Piety
Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies
Jeanne Shea, Katrina Moore, and Hong ZhangHosted by Jingyi Li
Known for a tradition of Confucian filial piety, East Asian societies have some of the oldest and most rapidly aging populations on earth. Today these societies are experiencing unprecedented social …
JAPANESE STUDIESApril 13, 2021
Flowering Tales
Women Exorcising History in Heian Japan
Takeshi WatanabeHosted by Jingyi Li
Telling stories: that sounds innocuous enough. But for the first chronicle in the Japanese vernacular, A Tale of Flowering Fortunes (Eiga monogatari), there was more to worry about than a …
JAPANESE STUDIESApril 1, 2021
Voices of Early Modern Japan
Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life During the Age of the Shoguns
Constantine Nomikos VaporisHosted by Jingyi Li
In this newly revised and updated 2nd edition of Voices of Early Modern Japan: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life During the Age of the Shoguns (Routledge, 2020), Constantine Nomikos Vaporis …
JAPANESE STUDIESApril 1, 2021
The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900)
A Cultural and Sociolinguistic Study of Dutch as a Contact Language in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan
Christopher JobyHosted by Jingyi Li
In The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900): A Cultural and Sociolinguistic Study of Dutch as a Contact Language in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan (Brill, 2020), Christopher Joby offers the first book-length account of …
JAPANESE STUDIESMarch 26, 2021
Pleasure in Profit
Popular Prose in Seventeenth-Century Japan
Laura MorettiHosted by Jingyi Li
In the seventeenth century, Japanese popular prose flourished as waves of newly literate readers gained access to the printed word. Commercial publishers released vast numbers of titles in response to …
JAPANESE STUDIESMarch 23, 2021
Licentious Fictions
Ninjō and the Nineteenth-Century Japanese Novel
Daniel PochHosted by Jingyi Li
Nineteenth-century Japanese literary discourse and narrative developed a striking preoccupation with ninjō—literally “human emotion,” but often used in reference to amorous feeling and erotic desire. For many writers and critics …
March 19, 2021
A Gap in the Clouds
A New Translation of Ogura Hyakunin Isshu
James Hadley and Nell ReganHosted by Jingyi Li
Compiled around 1235, the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, or Ogura's 100 Poems by 100 Poets, is one of the most important collections of poetry in Japan. Though the poets include emperors …
JAPANESE STUDIESMarch 18, 2021
The Global Education Effect and Japan
Constructing New Borders and Identification Practices
Neriko Musha DoerrHosted by Jingyi Li
The Global Education Effect and Japan: Constructing New Borders and Identification Practices (Routledge, 2020) volume investigates the "global education effect"--the impact of global education initiatives on institutional and individual practices …
JAPANESE STUDIESMarch 18, 2021
Japan's Russia
Challenging the East-West Paradigm
Olga V. Solovieva and Sho KonishiHosted by Jingyi Li
The Russian cultural presence in Japan after the Meiji Revolution was immense. Indeed, Japanese cultural negotiations with Russian intellectuals and Russian literature, art, theology and political thought, formed an important …
JAPANESE STUDIESMarch 16, 2021
Reflecting the Past
Place, Language, and Principle in Japan's Medieval Mirror Genre
Erin L. BrightwellHosted by Jingyi Li
Reflecting the Past: Place, Language, and Principle in Japan's Medieval Mirror Genre (Harvard UP, 2020) is the first English-language study to address the role of historiography in medieval Japan, an age …
JAPANESE STUDIESMarch 10, 2021
Transnational Identities on Okinawa’s Military Bases: Invisible Armies
Invisible Armies
Johanna O. ZuluetaHosted by Jingyi Li
In Transnational Identities on Okinawa’s Military Bases: Invisible Armies (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019), Johanna Zulueta considers the role of civilian workers on U.S. bases in Okinawa, Japan and how transnational movements within …
JAPANESE STUDIESFebruary 24, 2021
African Samurai
The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan
Geoffrey Girard and Thomas LockleyHosted by Jingyi Li
The remarkable life of history's first foreign-born samurai and his astonishing journey from Northern Africa to the heights of Japanese society. When Yasuke arrived in Japan in the late 1500s …
JAPANESE STUDIESJanuary 29, 2021
Scripting Japan
Orthography, Variation, and the Creation of Meaning in Written Japanese
Wesley C. RobertsonHosted by Jingyi Li
Imagine this book was written in Comic Sans. Would this choice impact your image of me as an author, despite causing no literal change to the content within? Generally, discussions …
JAPANESE STUDIESJanuary 14, 2021
Creativity in Tokyo
Revitalizing a Mature City
Matjaz Ursic and Heide ImaiHosted by Jingyi Li
In Creativity in Tokyo: Revitalizing a Mature City (Palgrave, 2020), Heide Imai and Matjaz Ursic focues on overlooked contextual factors that constitute the urban creative climate or innovative urban milieu in …
JAPANESE STUDIESJanuary 7, 2021
The Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction
The Water Margin and the Making of a National Canon
William C. HedbergHosted by Jingyi Li
The classic Chinese novel The Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan) tells the story of a band of outlaws in twelfth-century China and their insurrection against the corrupt imperial court. Imported into …


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