Jingyi Li is a doctorate candidate in Pre-modern Japanese literature and history. She is a University Fellow 2017~2018, as well as a Japan Foundation Doctoral Fellow 2020~2021. 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 paleography. Her hobbies are transcribing kuzushiji and cycling.