Jingyi Li is a doctorate candidate in Pre-modern Japanese literature and history, as well as a
University Fellow. She earned her B.A. in Japanese Language and Literature
from East China Normal University and M.A. in Pre-modern Japanese
Literature from Kyushu University. Her research focuses on Edo period
literary history, particularly popular literature. Her current project features intellectual/bunjin communities in the late Edo period. She is also interested in pre-modern Japanese print culture and palleography. Her hobbies are transcribing kuzushiji and cycling.