Haoyue Li is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate whose research focuses on late imperial Chinese literature, material culture, and book history. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia before pursuing her doctoral studies. She is currently working with Dr. C.D. Alison Bailey, Bruce Rusk, and Shoufu Yin.

Her dissertation, “Incense and Literary Men: The Connoisseurship, Writing, and Compilation of Objects in Late Ming China,” examines incense-related writings across genres—including poetry, prose, memoirs, pulu manuals, and connoisseurship literature. Bridging textual studies and literary history with material culture, book history, and the history of knowledge, her work offers a systematic analysis of object-centered literature in late Ming China. She has presented her research externally and received the Outstanding Paper Award (2024) from Peking University’s Department of Chinese Language and Literature, the Mori Prize in Asian Studies (2022) from Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast, and the Graduate Student Paper Prize (2021) from the American Oriental Society Western Branch.

She also maintains broad interests in modern Chinese cinema and popular culture. In 2026, she will serve as a sessional lecturer at UBC, teaching an undergraduate course on the History of Chinese Cinema.

Please feel free to contact her by email in either English or Chinese.