Peiyuan Li
Peiyuan Li
Assistant Professor of Economics at Duke Kunshan University
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My research is at the crossroads of Economic History, Political Economy, Development Economics, and Text Analysis.
My research is at the crossroads of Economic History, Political Economy, Development Economics, and Text Analysis.
Institution change: My doctoral dissertation, "Collective Action in State and Society: 19th and 20th Century China," has been awarded the NSF Doctoral Dissertation Grant # 2214884, approaches political mobilization through individual incentives. It asks why people chose to join, resist, or stay out of collective action as China moved from empire to nation-state and from Kuomintang to communist rule.
Technology transfer: I also study how China absorbed foreign technology when it reopened to the West in the 1970s, beginning with the fertilizer and fiber plants imported after Nixon’s visit, and how that technology diffused through the economy.
Technology transfer: I also study how China absorbed foreign technology when it reopened to the West in the 1970s, beginning with the fertilizer and fiber plants imported after Nixon’s visit, and how that technology diffused through the economy.
Text analysis is central to my agendas. I build pipelines that combine OCR, natural language processing, and large language models to convert historical sources into structured datasets suitable for causal analysis.
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