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Professor Chien-hui Li, PhD

15th June 2012

is a Professor in History at the Department of History at National Cheng Kung University. She received her MPhil and PhD degrees from King’s College, University of Cambridge in the UK and was formerly a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, and an Assistant Professor at Fu Jen Catholic University. Her research and teaching interests include Modern British History, History of Social Movements, Animal History and Western Historiography. She has published widely in journals such as Society and Animals, Journal of Animal Ethics, The New History, Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, EurAmerica: A Journal of European and American Studies, Historical Inquiry, Cheng Kung Journal of Historical Studies, Chinese Studies in History, and World History Review. She has also co-edited and introduced William Drummond’s Rights of Animals and Man’s Obligation to Treat Them with Humanity (1838) for the Mellen Animal Rights Library with Rod Preece and translated Andrew Linzey’s Animal Gospel for the China University Press of Politics and Law in 2005 and the Yong Wang Press in 2006. She has also helped to organize Special Issues on “Animal Studies” and “Animal History” for Chung Wai Literary Quarterly and Cheng Kung Journal of Historical Studies in 2003 and 2020, respectively. Her most recent work, Mobilizing Traditions in the Frist Wave of the Animal Defense Movement in Britain, published in the Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series, won the 2020 Academia Sinica Scholarly Monograph Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences in Taiwan. She is currently engaged in research on the lives of farmed animals in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain.