Jie Li

Ph.D.,Associate Professor, School of Tourism Management, Sun Yat-sen University, Tangjiawan, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China.  lijie269@mail.sysu.edu.cn

 

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Urban Planning and Design, The University of Hong Kong (2010-2015)
  • Bachelor of Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University (2006-2010)

Working Experiences

Associate professor, School of Tourism Management, Sun Yat-sen University (2019-present)

Research associate, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King’s College London (2016-2019)

Research Fields

  • Tourism and urban development
  • Mobility and wellbeing  

Publications

  1. Shicai Wang, Jie Li, Honggang Xu. Reconstructing home in touristic places: anenabling process for poverty alleviation migrants. Tourism Geographies, 2025, DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2025.2506105
  2. Honggang Xu, Jie Li, Yuting Wang. Rethinking the evolution of rural tourism destinations: Based on assemblage theory (in Chinese). Tourism Tribune, 2025, 40(4): 79-91.
  3. Zhaohui Huang, Jie Li, Honggang Xu. Tourism and the sustainable development of traditional handicrafts from a socio-material perspective: Acase study of Dongguan Guanxiang(in Chinese). Tourism Tribune, 2024, 39(7): 28-39.
  4. Jie Li, Honggang Xu. Megaregion development, multilocal dwelling and well-being in China. Regional Studies, 2023, 57(4): 739–748. 
  5. Jie Li, Honggang Xu. Place attachment and mobility in the context of job-induced multilocal dwelling—The case of China. Population, Space and Place, 2023, 29(3): e2627.
  6. Jianzheng Liu, Jie Li, Xiwen Zhang, et al. Does the mainland China–Hong Kong exchange program change the views of local university students in Hong Kong on regional cooperation? A randomized control-group pre-test post-test experiment. Frontiers in Psychology, 2023,14, 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1078437
  7. Penny. Y. K. Wan, Jie Li, et al. Adaptive Co-Management for Regional Tourism Governance Under the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Greater Bay Area, China. Journal of China Tourism Research, 2024,  20 (3): 633-656.
  8. Jianzheng Liu, Xiwen, Zhang, Jie Li*, et al. Has the Exchange Program Improved Hong Kong Young College Students’ Understanding and Favorability Towards Mainland Cities in the Greater Bay Area? — An Empirical Analysis Based on Randomized Controlled Experiments (in Chinese). Journal of Public Administration, 2021, (4), 155-174
  9. Jie Li*. Culture and tourism-led peri-urban transformation in China - The case of Shanghai, Cities, 2020, 99: 102628 
  10. Jie Li*, Rebecca Chiu. State rescaling and large-scale urban development projects in China: The case of Lingang New Town, Shanghai. Urban Studies, 2020, 57(12): 2564–2581.
  11. Jie Li*, Nick Manning and Andrea Mechelli. Digging deeper in Shanghai: towards a ‘mechanism-rich’ epidemiology. International Health, 2019, 11, S14-23
  12. Jie Li, Zhilin Liu*; Housing stress and mental health of migrant populations in urban China, Cities, 2018, 18, 172-179 
  13. Jie Li*, Nicholas Rose; Urban social exclusion and mental health of China’s rural-urban migrants – A review and call for research, Health & Place, 2018, 48: 20-30. 
  14. Jie Li, Rebecca Chiu*; Urban investment and development corporations, new town development and China’s local state restructuring – the case of Songjiang New Town, Shanghai, Urban Geography, 2018, 39(5), 687-705. 
  15. Jie Li, Jianzheng Liu* & Weifeng Li. The Dilemma of Urban Natural Conservation Planning: The Case of Sha Lo Tung, Hong Kong (in Chinese). Urban Planning International, 2017, 32(5), 80-86
  16. Jie Li, Xingjian Liu, Jianzheng Liu* & Weifeng Li. City profile: Taipei. Cities, 2016, 55, 1-8 
  17. Jianzheng Liu, Jie Li, Weifeng Li*. Temporal Patterns in Fine Particulate Matter Time Series in Beijing: A Calendar View. Scientific Reports, 2016, 6(1), 32221 
  18. Jianzheng Liu, Weifeng Li, Jie Li. Quality screening for air quality monitoring data in China. Environmental Pollution, 2016, 216, 720-723. 
  19. Jianzheng Liu, Jie Li, Weifeng Li *, and Jiansheng Wu. Rethinking big data: A review on the data quality and usage issues.ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2016, (115): 134-142
  20. Jie Li*. Critical Review of Foreign Urban Development Policies under the Entrepreneurial City Theory (in Chinese). Urban Development Studies, 2015, (2), 7-12 
  21. Zhiling Liu, Jie Li. Public Rental Housing Policy: Comparative International Experience and Its Implications for China (in Chinese). Modern Urban Research, 2010, (10), 21-26

Research grants

  • “Dual-city Residents in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area: Characteristics of Place Attachment and Mechanisms of Mobility Impact” funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (young scientist fund), 2022-2024, PI, completed
  • “Research on the Impact Mechanism of Cross-Border Multilocal Dwelling on Mental Health and Well-Being in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area” funded by the Regional Joint Fund—Youth Fund of the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation, 2020-2023, PI, completed